With the rapid switch to remote ESOL instruction, Zoom has risen in popularity as one of the most user-friendly teleconferencing tools.  Zoom offers more than a simple virtual meeting space; it also offers teachers options for small group or paired breakout rooms, recordings of meetings, saved whiteboards and chats, annotation tools, and the ability to share links to documents and links. In this panel session, several practitioners share how they have smoothly integrated Zoom and its myriad options into their remote instruction toolboxes, increasing student engagement and maximizing remote face-to-face learning opportunities in a remote context.   

In this 1.5 hour roundtable session, you will gain valuable ideas about how to use Zoom in a wide range of ways to support your remote ESOL instruction. Panelists will share examples from their own teaching experiences using Zoom with beginning to advanced ESOL students. You will hear about ways to use Zoom to facilitate small meetings to large classes, coordinate collaborative activities, conduct assessments, provide pronunciation feedback, troubleshoot tech issues, and more.  

Join us for our second in a series of roundtable discussions designed to help you to re-imagine your instructional practices during this period of remote teaching and beyond!