In our current situation, teachers, advisors, and tutors find themselves with the need to communicate with their students from a distance. 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 ones that are the best to use according to your staff and student needs?
This webinar will address four communication 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
- 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
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
In this 90 minute 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
We want to remind you that these digital communication tools are a good option for increasing access, intensity, and persistence, both now and after programs reopen.
Please note: We will be contacting you a week before the webinar with information on how to access the webinar. Watch for a confirmation email from rbanovic@worlded.org.
- Select a digital communication tool for maintaining communication, advising, and instruction with students
- 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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