Energizers for online and hybrid classrooms can make a real difference to how a lesson feels. My main aim in this post is to find ways to make the online classroom feel more like our usual face-to-face classes. I’ll add some websites and apps, but I wanted to avoid the quiz-makers and game-makers you’ve probably…
Online teaching taught me more in one term than years of regular teaching sometimes do. The first term of our 4-term academic year has just ended. We’ll start a brand new term on Monday. During the 1st term, I’ve tried many things. Some worked well, some didn’t, some needed an update, some needed slight changes….
Since the schools closed, I’ve been reading articles, watching webinars, attending short courses to tackle with the difficulty of remote teaching. As we all were thrown into the big ocean of online teaching in March, we tried to save the day using the knowledge and tools we already had. However, things have changed now. We…
I spent some time attending courses at FutureLearn this summer and I found them very useful and inspiring. As the coming academic year will most probably be a more hybrid system, these courses will be helpful to you too. So if you haven’t attended them, have a look at those courses: How to Teach Online…
Jamboard is an online interactive whiteboard tool that can easily be used to in distance learning. The App can easily be reached from Google Drive. Click on Jamboard and you’re ready to create your first board. Tap the orange + to start. Now you are ready to use the board. Choose the background. I really…
Suddenly we all went online.. The techy, the old school we are all on the same boat, trying to sail safely to the shore. Language teaching will not be complete with student interaction. We need to find ways to make students more productive instead of keeping them in front of the screens pretending they are…
My guest post on Larry Ferlazzo’s blog My Corona Days’ experience as Guest Post: Teaching An Istanbul English Class Online During The Time Of Corona https://t.co/SmZyPNlXZ5 via @Larryferlazzo — Eva B. (@dream2edu) March 25, 2020
The new normal is the remote learning until we enter our classrooms again. Online classrooms will also give us a chance to interact with our students, to participate the lessons actively. If we just follow a PowerPoint presentation or the lesson material, they will pretend that they are in the class but they will find…
