Teachers, advisors, tutors, and directors need to communicate with their students outside of in-person class meetings as well as for distance education classes. Keeping in touch and continuing instruction are more important than ever. What digital tools can help us continue to provide real-time practice and support? What asynchronous communication tools are most effective to allow people to participate when schedules permit? And how can we choose the best ones to use according to staff and student needs?
This webinar will address four tools:
- Remind for messaging and more
- Google Voice for phoning and texting
- Zoom for real-time video meetings
- Screencast-O-Matic for creating narrated instructional recordings of anything you show on your computer screen, including yourself via your computer camera
- New program directors, teachers, advisors, and tutors who want to become familiar with communication tools and how to implement them with their students from a distance
- Veteran directors, teachers, and advisors who want to explore opportunities to use new communication tools
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
In this two-hour webinar, we will review:
- Each tool’s essential features
- Ways to utilize the tools for keeping in touch and for instruction
- How to select a tool that is the best match for you and your students
- Both the free and paid versions of each tool to help you decide which one best meets your purposes
These digital communication tools are effective in increasing access, intensity, and persistence for distance and for supplementing in-class learning.
How this PD is offered
- This is a webinar and includes a post-workshop assignment.
- The webinar will take place on Friday, October 14 from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- After you register, our Project Coordinator Ruzica Banovic (ruzica_banovic@worlded.org) will send you a confirmation and the Zoom link to join.
- Your assignment will be to develop a goal and draft a plan to address it. You will have from October 14 to October 28 to post it to the discussion board, and you will receive feedback from the presenter.
We estimate it will take about one hour for you to complete the assignment, but you can work on it at your convenience.
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Select a digital communication tool for supporting communication, advising, or instruction with students or staff
- Develop an objective for communicating with students[, and draft a plan for onboarding students and implementing the selected tool
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
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