When you’re teaching online, you likely use Zoom breakout rooms to create engagement and get your students thinking more in-depth about a complex idea. Maybe you bop around in the breakout rooms, listening to great ideas and students chattering. However, when you return to the shared space and ask students to share what they discussed… Read more »
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Quick Tip: Making Breakout Room Instructions Clear
We’ve all been there. You’re a participant in a webinar and just as the facilitator starts to give instructions for an activity your kid starts demanding more cookies, or your dog starts demanding more cookies, or you were in the kitchen getting more cookies. You missed the instructions and now people are headed to breakout… Read more »
Quick Tip: Prompting Participation
Almost two years into the pandemic, most of us are experts at being in a Zoom presentation. However, if you’re like me, maybe you still get caught off guard when you’re suddenly asked to participate. (What! I’m not ready to participate – I’m refilling my coffee!) Our students can similarly be caught off guard when… Read more »
Quick Tip: Changing Skin Tones in Zoom Emojis
Nonverbal feedback in Zoom meetings can be a quick and easy way to gauge the meeting. You can ask your students to show their understanding with a quick “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.” Have you noticed that you could make your Zoom more personal by changing your Zoom reactions’ skin tone? This might help you… Read more »
Quick Tip of the Week: How to Take the Zzzzzs out of Zoom
If you are looking for new ways to teach using Zoom, I recommend reading Dan Levy’s book, Teaching Effectively with Zoom, and its companion site. The book provides brief explanations of Zoom features, along with the how and why of using them. Examples from instructors using Zoom, along with their tips, provide a wealth of… Read more »
Quick tip of the week: Highlight multiple Zoom participant videos at once
We can now pin or spotlight the videos of up to nine participants in a Zoom meeting. Pinning a participant’s video means that you only see that particular person’s video. Pinning only affects your view of the video, while spotlighting a participant makes their video become the only video that everyone on the call sees…. Read more »