Dear Team,
I have been working with Zoom as well and think it is quite easy but usefull and understandable for the students. In middle class we are right now not allowed to us this waz of teaching in a virtuel classroom (Germany). But I have been working with students outside Waldorfschool all over the world in this way for teaching languages for many years.
There seem to be serious concerns with Zoom being hacked – in the worst case pornographic images appearing in the middle of a conversation. I have discovered that the default security settings were really permissive, but allegedly there has been an improvement. But today I see concerns again expressed online and in a newspaper even here in Kenya.
Thank you for this list! I’ll certainly try these. I became a class 2 class teacher in December, just after going home from the English Week, besides teaching English. I got the feedback from parents that sending emails is too difficult to manage. So this week I’m trying out Google Classroom. I do not find my way around it so easily and am not so satisfied with it. Other teachers in our school use google drive. I’ve also started to phone the families up and ask how they’re doing and we just shouldn’t forget about it, I agree. It was really helpful to get their feedback that way. One of our teachers had a parents meeting on Google Meet.
Zsuzsi Jung from Hungary
We are just starting to use Google Classroom for our middle school, and – while not without challenges – it seems to be a good platform for our purposes. I would like to learn more about Padlet and will look into it later.
After Easter break we will be using Seesaw to post tasks and receive students’ responses, plus the class teachers will be using Zoom at our school (primary school). We’ll see how it goes.
Thank you so much for these useful suggestions! Especially the Padlet seems to be of great help while we are working in small groups! I´ll come back to you after some experiance 🙂
Hello,
I’ve heard from a friend who works in the field of media and communication about two conferencing systems /online classrooms: BigBlueBottom (apparently from Moodle) and Jitsi Meet.
I haven’t worked with these tools so I cannot make any recommendations. They seem to be very reliable but please inform yourself about the date protection if you choose to use them.
Greetings 😉
I think that all of the programs mentioned are helpful I prefer the video conferencing, which is what we used at our school. However, I ended up using several different tools, as I searched for programs that would make learning more interesting for the students. One of my favorite finds was an online scavenger hunt called Goosechase.edu. This program allowed my students to travel around the world, stopping on each continent and completing a task at each stop. It can be used creatively for any subject area. It is essential to give students variety of learning opportunities that get them out of the “classroom” mentality and guide them to experience alternative learning opportunities.
I, as a PE Teacher, used a lot of videos as a guided method in order to introduce new corporal elements in my classes. But I also used the games that we had played at school, but adapted to our online conditions.
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Dear Team,
I have been working with Zoom as well and think it is quite easy but usefull and understandable for the students. In middle class we are right now not allowed to us this waz of teaching in a virtuel classroom (Germany). But I have been working with students outside Waldorfschool all over the world in this way for teaching languages for many years.
There seem to be serious concerns with Zoom being hacked – in the worst case pornographic images appearing in the middle of a conversation. I have discovered that the default security settings were really permissive, but allegedly there has been an improvement. But today I see concerns again expressed online and in a newspaper even here in Kenya.
Thank you for this list! I’ll certainly try these. I became a class 2 class teacher in December, just after going home from the English Week, besides teaching English. I got the feedback from parents that sending emails is too difficult to manage. So this week I’m trying out Google Classroom. I do not find my way around it so easily and am not so satisfied with it. Other teachers in our school use google drive. I’ve also started to phone the families up and ask how they’re doing and we just shouldn’t forget about it, I agree. It was really helpful to get their feedback that way. One of our teachers had a parents meeting on Google Meet.
Zsuzsi Jung from Hungary
We are just starting to use Google Classroom for our middle school, and – while not without challenges – it seems to be a good platform for our purposes. I would like to learn more about Padlet and will look into it later.
After Easter break we will be using Seesaw to post tasks and receive students’ responses, plus the class teachers will be using Zoom at our school (primary school). We’ll see how it goes.
Thank you so much for these useful suggestions! Especially the Padlet seems to be of great help while we are working in small groups! I´ll come back to you after some experiance 🙂
what about the idea of podcasts ?
Hello,
I’ve heard from a friend who works in the field of media and communication about two conferencing systems /online classrooms: BigBlueBottom (apparently from Moodle) and Jitsi Meet.
I haven’t worked with these tools so I cannot make any recommendations. They seem to be very reliable but please inform yourself about the date protection if you choose to use them.
Greetings 😉
BigBlueBotton*
I think that all of the programs mentioned are helpful I prefer the video conferencing, which is what we used at our school. However, I ended up using several different tools, as I searched for programs that would make learning more interesting for the students. One of my favorite finds was an online scavenger hunt called Goosechase.edu. This program allowed my students to travel around the world, stopping on each continent and completing a task at each stop. It can be used creatively for any subject area. It is essential to give students variety of learning opportunities that get them out of the “classroom” mentality and guide them to experience alternative learning opportunities.
Here are some further ideas:
https://app.conceptboard.com/ > lesson moderation, whiteboarding
https://answergarden.ch/create/ > polling
https://www.mindmeister.com/templates > mind mapping
You find many more in “Die digitale Werkzeugkiste 1-3”
https://padlet.com/ajoth1/lw122tw6u4oh
Ich habe für die Eltern ein Tagebuch auf einem Blog mit Blogger erstellt. Recht einfach und kam gut an.
I, as a PE Teacher, used a lot of videos as a guided method in order to introduce new corporal elements in my classes. But I also used the games that we had played at school, but adapted to our online conditions.