Over these last weeks, institutions around the globe have worked tirelessly to transition teaching and learning online and set up digital classrooms for the health and wellbeing of their students, faculty, and staff. The next step is to ensure students …
How Things Have Changed—New Expanded Netiquette Rules for Video Conferencing
A whole new layer of Netiquette Rules for live video conferencing. Meredith Hart just posted a blog last week sharing video conferencing etiquette. Here are her tips:
How to Use Zoom Videoconferencing to Teach Online Effectively
Zoom can be used for lectures, student presentations, discussions, student polls, virtual office hours, or a place to meet with students. What’s more, there’s no need to train students to use Zoom. If you want to know how to get …
How we can navigate the coronavirus pandemic with courage and hope
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Presentation of the Week: Needs, Importance & Effective Use Of Instructional Technology
Pedagogical ICT resources to facilitate the transition from a classroom-based course to a distance learning course
Planning a distance learning course takes time and a lot of preparation, but sometimes the context in which we teach forces us to make these changes in a very short period of time. Here is an overview of educational resources …
Knowt Will Turn Your Notes and Favorite Webpages Into Quizzes for You
Knowt takes the notes that you have in your free Knowt online notebook and turns them into practice quizzes for you. Your notes can be written directly in Knowt or imported from Google Drive, from a document stored on your …
Videoconferencing Alternatives: How Low-Bandwidth Teaching Will Save Us All
When we try to replicate classroom experiences in an online environment, it’s easy to think of video conferencing as our go-to tool for all sorts of learning objectives—and for good reason.We like the idea of being able to see and …
The Coming Era of Decision Machines
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the pursuit of machines that are able to act purposefully to make decisions towards the pursuit of goals. “Machines need to be able to predict to decide, but decision making requires much more. Decision making requires …
Rubric Making Tips and Tools for Teachers and Educators
Some good tools to help you creating rubrics. These are scoring and criterion-referenced guidelines teachers create to help with, among other things, the assessment of students performance.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2020/03/rubric-making-tips-and-tools-for.html
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Teachers across New York City are getting a lesson in “Zoombombing”
As educators this week began shifting their coursework online, thousands of them are likely using the Zoom teleconferencing app for class-wide lessons or discussions.
Advice from Dr. Tony Bates to those about to teach online because of the corona-virus
With the reports of more and more institutions closing campuses because of the corona-virus, and even those not closing advising their instructors to move their classes online, I am wondering what advice or help these instructors are getting from their …
Online Learning in a Hurry
Dave Cormier has created a series of videos (up to ten now) helping people get started with online learning in a hurry. It’s practical and realistic. For example: “My first oliah blog post had to do with prioritizing the establishment …
How Coronavirus Is Going To Change Education Forever
Education is one of the most important challenges, it will surely change after this episode (with all that this entails in terms of opportunity for those who know how to deal with it properly), and it will be essential for …
How I lead remote learning in Hong Kong during school closures
Since we use Microsoft tools, I quickly realized it would make sense for Teams and OneNote to play a leading role in online lessons for my students. We were learning as we went, much like many other educators like you …