General Description

Move your classroom online. Get practical tips and tools for using your existing content online, customising for online delivery and running engaging online lessons.

 

How to use FREE online tools to get your existing content online and how to run online lessons.

Audience

Teachers who want to (or have to) move to online teaching.

Teaching Standards

1.2.2 Proficient Level - Know students and how they learn - Understand how students learn:  Structure teaching programs using research and collegial advice about how students learn,

3.3.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Use teaching strategies:  Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking,

3.4.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Select and use resources:  Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning,

3.5.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Use effective classroom communication:  Use effective verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to support student understanding, participation, engagement and achievement,

3.6.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Evaluate and improve teaching programs:   Evaluate personal teaching and learning programs using evidence, including feedback from students and student assessment data, to inform planning,

4.1.2 Proficient Level - Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments - Support student participation:   Establish and implement inclusive and positive interactions to engage and support all students in classroom activities,

4.2.2 Proficient Level - Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments - Manage classroom activities:   Establish and maintain orderly and workable routines to create an environment where student time is spent on learning tasks,

5.4.2 Proficient Level - Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning - Interpret student data:  Use student assessment data to analyse and evaluate student understanding of subject/content, identifying interventions and modifying teaching practice,

6.4.2 Proficient Level - Engage in Professional Learning - Apply professional learning and improve student learning:   Undertake professional learning programs designed to address identified student learning needs

 

Are you in NSW? If so, this is relevant for you

This course may contribute towards Elective PD hours. Visit https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au for more details.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Intro to teaching online - The good and not so good

    • Welcome

    • Overview

    • Common obstacles

    • Action time

  • 2

    Websites & Learning Management Systems - Where to put your teaching resources and materials

    • Overview

    • Features to consider

    • Edmodo

    • Google Classroom

    • Google Sites

    • Weebly

    • Facebook

    • Action time

    • edmodo edited

  • 3

    Screencasting - Making videos instead of being 'up the front'

    • Overview

    • Thinking time

    • Screencast-o-matic - recording your webcam or desktop

    • Screencasting tips

    • Action time

  • 4

    Video material - Free tools to create interactive & engaging resources

    • Overview

    • TedEd - Video and questions

    • Adobe Spark - Create a video from an existing PowerPoint

    • Edpuzzle - Interactive video

    • Action time

  • 5

    Quizzes & tests - Turn that paper test into an online assessment

    • Overview

    • kahoot - Online engaging quizzes

    • Google Forms - Survey or test

    • Action time

  • 6

    Online lessons - Plan, design and deliver your lesson online

    • Overview

    • Online lesson tips and hints

    • WebEx

    • Other engaging online tools

    • Online lesson structure

    • Action time

  • 7

    Course Feedback

    • course feedback