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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

2.6.2 Proficient Level - Know the content and how to teach it - Information and Communication Technology (ICT):  Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful

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,

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

Do you teach in NSW? If so, this is relevant to you:

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

 

Presenter

Belinda Jennings

Belinda Jennings

Belinda is an educator and consultant specialising in integrating ICT and the creation and curation of online learning programs for both classroom and distance education. She created her first website hosting curriculum materials for photography students in 1999 using Frontpage (remember that?)Throughout her teaching career, Belinda has eagerly embraced new tech tools and has been innovative in utilising them to increase student engagement, maximize outcomes and streamline her own teaching practice for efficient and effective curriculum development, feedback and assessment.Belinda is committed to ongoing informal and formal professional development, both as presenter and participant. She is skilled, and has 15 years experience, in empowering educators to feel confident in exploring new technologies in their classrooms and/or online learning programs. Professional sharing - bouncing ideas, solving problems and envisaging new ways of educating young people – makes her happy.

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