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This is a simple workshop presentation to give K12 teachers a hands on experience of using an online classroom - with a simple teaching strategy to help them design the learning sequence and understand their role and that of their students in a meta-cognitive approach to extending their classroom interaction - by building and maintaining an online community - using VERY simple tools
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Online ClassroomsA teaching strategy for the middle years
Characteristics
• Is not a replacement for the classroom!
• Is a space for teachers and students to collaborate though two way conversation to do things that are too hard to achieve otherwise.
• Developed to give additional formative assessment and student questions
• Is more informal than formal
Teaching strategy
• To be a facilitator, not a judge
• To be a critical, supportive friend
• To allow students to take ‘side trips’ into avenues that they are interested in and not to stick too rigidly to the curriculum
• To let students know where they are in their own learning
Stages of development
Arriving
Welcoming
Conversing
Making
Leaving
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
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Student’s Role
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Students climb steps based on a set of tasks/problems
Too easy Too frustrating
Too boring Too distracting
Finding the learning balance
No technology Too much tech
The teacher’s role is todesign the learning steps
How can we tell?
Taking stock of tools and features you have.Teacher
Take time to set up your classroom
Important!
• Issue a naming convention - hide their true identity ie Firstname + First 2 letters of their surname + class JohnSmK7
• Issue any parent permission (tell the boss)
• Issue the class rules (behavior, respect)
• Speak online as you would offline.
Arrivinghttp://htav09.shoutem.com
Finding and setting up your online space.
http://htav09.shoutem.com
The Arrival Lesson
Create 6 dummy accounts using Gmail accounts for testing.
Use them in class for students who try to game the activity ... I don’t have email, I forgot my address, what’s my password.
Flight CheckIntroduce yourselfSay hello to a studentAdd a hyperlinkAdd a photoCheck someone’s linkPost a comment on someone’s photo.
Designers Tip:Our online classroom
Welcoming
http://htav09.shoutem.com
Welcoming Students
Great your class oftenShare something you are thinkingSay something you like about thier workAsk a question that makes them wonderExplain what to expect is going to happen
Our online classroom
Conversing
http://htav09.shoutem.com
Joining in conversations
Encourage open questions about anythingDon’t answer all the questionsPoint students to other studentsCorrect ‘group’ deviation and errorsDon’t ask all the questions
Our online classroom
Making
http://htav09.shoutem.com
Joining in conversations
Skills based activitiesIssues based activitiesPre-activity reflection (what will happen)During activity reflection (what are we doing)Post activity reflection (what did we do)
Our online classroom
Leaving
http://htav09.shoutem.com
Joining in conversations
Feedback to the groupWhat did you like about what you didWhat make you wonder/rethinkWhat would you do in the futureTalk about their achievements (group)
Our online classroom
Spaces to try
http://www.etherpad.com(small group sharing)
http://www.edmodo.com(class sharing)
http://groups.google.com(forum - but less features)
http://www.tinychat.com(web-cam and voice too)
http://www.meetsee.com(Virtual World)
