Adapting Materials for the Virtual Classroom

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Adapting Materials for the Remote Classroom

Nik Peachey - Director - PeacheyPublications

Director - PeacheyPublications

Role 1

Online Course Designer

Role 2

Content Author

Role 3

Learning Technology Consultant

Role 4

Nik Peachey

Webinar Dos and Donts

• Please restrict your use of the chat to responding
• Questions at the end please
• There will be networking time at the end
• If you lose sound refresh your browser
• Don't use the 'stage'
• Recordings for subscibers

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Background

Challenges

Tools

Examples

Questions

Background

Teaching Online

• 100% online school
• Materials made for the physical classroom
• Paper-based

Challenges

What teachers want

Challenges

• Visually attractive materials in landscape format
• Interactive materials
• Managing pair and group work in breakout rooms
• Developing all 4 skills
• Note-taking (students' digital study skills)

SomeExamples

How our materials work

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My Mobile Phone

Listening 1

Listen to this woman talking about her tattoo.

• Make notes of the key events in her story.

Audio Link

Pronunciation

Listen to the sentences and try to write down the words.

Imagine

1. How do you think she is feeling?2. Why does she do this?3. What is she thinking about?4. What can she hear?5. What does she want to do?6. How often does she train?7. What do her freinds and family feel about the sport?

A Business Trip

A Business Trip

A Business Trip

Audio Link

Audio Link

Audio Link

A Weekend in manchester

Some Recommendations

Hotel

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Where should I stay?

FRiday

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What can I do on Friday evening?

Saturday

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How about Saturday?

Sunday

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What about Sunday?

Act

Study your role card

Think about what you will say.

Two Men on a Scooter

Watch

Rate the man's parenting skills.10 = Very good1 = Very poor

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Discuss

Distracted

A Film by Emile JacquesMusic/ Compositor: Ryan Rice

1. What is the man doing on his phone?
2. What is the impact on the child?
3. Where is the mother?
4. How as their life different when the mother was aound?
5. Where does the girl go when she leaves?
6. What does the father do after the girl leaves?
7. How does their relationship change after she leaves?
8. Why is it difficult for a single man to bring up a daughter?

4 Sections

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• What's new
• Resources
• Videos
• Toolbox

4 Apps for Students

The app contains instruction for students to help them install our free student workbook apps on their devices.

SomeTools

Creating materials

QR Code Generator Tutorial from Nik Peachey on Vimeo.

The QR Code Generator

• I use this tool to enable students to quickly access materials on their mobile phones
• It's easy and free to use.
• I can link students to w wide range of online media.

Genially

• I use this tool to create classroom presentations and structure the materials.
• It produces HTML5 that can be viewed in any web browser on any device.
• It's highly interactive, dynamic and visually very rich.
• The presentations can easily be shared with students
• I can link to and embed a wide range of media.

Glide

• I use this tool to create apps for teachers and learners
• It's quick to learn
• It can make content easily accessible on students' mobile devices

H5P

• I use this tool to create the interactive activities that I embed in the presentations.
• It produces HTML5 that can be viewed in any web browser on any device.
• It has a wide variety of interaction types.
• It's quick to learn.
• It's free within Moodle and WordPress.
• It can be imported into other LMS.

Listening close

Structured writing

Lexical development

Reading & Summarising

Vocabulary flashcards

Word grammar

Pronunciation checking

Blended Resources

Telegra.ph

• Students can use this tool to take and share notes.
• It's free and simple to use.
• Students can add videos and images.
• They can share links to their notes or writing through chat.

Vocaroo

• Students or teachers can use this tool to record their speaking.
• It's free and simple to use.
• They can share links to their recording through chat.

CryptPad

• Students can use this tool to do collaborative writing tasks.
• Teachers can monitor the tasks as they write.
• It's free and simple to use and doesn't require registration.
• Try to limit the number of students to 4 per document.

Mentimeter

• Get student input
• Tests and evaluation
• Question formulation
• Opinion sharing
• Group brainstorming
• Get students creating questionnaires

Links &Resources

Our catalogue

Teacher Subscriptions

School Subscriptions

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