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Welcome to tonight’s #INeLearn Holiday Cookie Exchange! No need to head to the kitchen. We have a tray of eLearning cookies that will frame tonight’s conversation about planning for eLearning days.
To kick off the conversation, introduce yourself to the group and share your favorite holiday treat. #INeLearn
(I have a feeling this Twitter chat is going to make me very hungry.)
Nadine Gilkison District Tech Integration at @FTCSC and Innovation Specialist for the Office of eLearning. My favorite holiday treat is sugar cookies 😋🎅🏻❤️
Q1: Let’s start with your standard holiday treat… the chocolate chip cookie and a glass of milk. You can’t have Christmas without those.
So what ingredients are “must haves” for your successful eLearning day rollout? #INeLearn
Q1: Let’s start with your standard holiday treat… the chocolate chip cookie and a glass of milk. You can’t have Christmas without those.
So what ingredients are “must haves” for your successful eLearning day rollout? #INeLearn
R1: Talking with other districts about their successes & suggestions with eLearning days is a great way to start your own. I've been wowed by some of the sessions about it I've attended. #INeLearn
R1: Clear instructions, clearly communicated expectations, consistent messaging/planning. Lay the groundwork right so you aren’t putting out more fires later. #INeLearn
Hello! I am a 2nd grade teacher at OJ Neighbours in Wabash. We do not currently have eLearning days, but I look forward to seeing how they can be effective for both teachers and students. My favorite Christmas treat is Jello Jigglers. #INeLearn
A1 - always need to have activities that reach a learning objective. Making it ACTIVE and not passive (e.g. using @Flipgrid, Google Docs/Slides/Forms, etc.) #INeLearn
A1 - always need to have activities that reach a learning objective. Making it ACTIVE and not passive (e.g. using @Flipgrid, Google Docs/Slides/Forms, etc.) #INeLearn
A1 - always need to have activities that reach a learning objective. Making it ACTIVE and not passive (e.g. using @Flipgrid, Google Docs/Slides/Forms, etc.) #INeLearn
Q2: If you’re as good at cooking as I am (lol), you are all too familiar with those off-the-shelf shortbread or butter cookies.
When it comes to eLearning content, do you prefer teacher “homemade” or purchased courseware? Pros/cons? #INeLearn
A1 - always need to have activities that reach a learning objective. Making it ACTIVE and not passive (e.g. using @Flipgrid, Google Docs/Slides/Forms, etc.) #INeLearn
A1 - always need to have activities that reach a learning objective. Making it ACTIVE and not passive (e.g. using @Flipgrid, Google Docs/Slides/Forms, etc.) #INeLearn
R2: In our district since we are just getting started our tech reps in elementary helped create 4 lesson plans to give us a consistent start, but with the intent to move to grade level team created next year. Secondary is more custom to their needs in Canvas. #inelearn
Q2: If you’re as good at cooking as I am (lol), you are all too familiar with those off-the-shelf shortbread or butter cookies.
When it comes to eLearning content, do you prefer teacher “homemade” or purchased courseware? Pros/cons? #INeLearn
R2: Purchased courseware is fine as a starting point, but ultimately you as the teacher know your students best, and pre-bought almost always needs tweaking. Plus with home-made, I know it inside and out before the students ever see it. #INeLearn
A2 - Definitely nothing wrong with either one, but purchased courseware could be more restrictive than homemade. With so many options like OERs, YouTube videos, and articles (Google Scholar), teachers have an opportunity to be curators with authentic experiences. #INeLearn
R2: Purchased courseware is fine as a starting point, but ultimately you as the teacher know your students best, and pre-bought almost always needs tweaking. Plus with home-made, I know it inside and out before the students ever see it. #INeLearn
Q3: Ahh, Gingerbread Men. The personified holiday cookie.
We know that interaction with actual humans in eLearning is important. What are your favorite strategies for creating opportunities for interaction with the teacher and other students on eLearning days? #INeLearn
(Re)thinking about an LMS Discussions feature as more than a place to have “Discussions” - a place to share digital work with the entire class! #INeLearn
R3: Flipgrid is nice. At the secondary level, office hours are also cool. I’d be interested in experimenting with more video for actual interaction, because as much as I hate recording I know I need to lead by example. #INeLearn
A3 - where to begin! Re: tools, there’s always Flipgrid, Remind, Google Hangouts, Zoom, etc.
Strategies - have students connect the lesson with something at their house so that they can share a part of their world with you (and vice versa)! #INeLearn
R3: @Flipgrid is a great one for that! @Screencastify is great for setting expectations for lessons visually. Andhaving students use it as well to show their DOK. @CanvasLMS has several embedded features that are great too.. discussion tools and the audio video recorder #inelearn
Q3: Ahh, Gingerbread Men. The personified holiday cookie.
We know that interaction with actual humans in eLearning is important. What are your favorite strategies for creating opportunities for interaction with the teacher and other students on eLearning days? #INeLearn
I feel strongly about teacher creativity here. There has to be some consistency and agreed upon norms, but every teacher gets to create their physical classroom space, so we have to allow for some flexibility. #INeLearn
I agree! Transparency of work in an online setting is so important. Tools like discussion boards, Padlets, etc. can make this easier.
Transparency is how we build community even when learning is self-paced. #INeLearn
(Re)thinking about an LMS Discussions feature as more than a place to have “Discussions” - a place to share digital work with the entire class! #INeLearn
Q4: Want to DESIGN some sugar cookies? Grab your frosting and your favorite eLearning tools…
What are your favorite design tips and tools for creating functional but aesthetically pleasing digital content? #INeLearn
R3: tasks that involve conversations of some kind with the teacher. Collaborative activities. A simple shared doc or slide can be the platform. #INeLearn
R4: Well I have several 😂👩🏻💻 @unsplash@pixabay to name a few but I’ll add another tweet to this with my 12 days of Techmas because I share tons of my tips in there 🎅🏻 #inelearn
Q4: Want to DESIGN some sugar cookies? Grab your frosting and your favorite eLearning tools…
What are your favorite design tips and tools for creating functional but aesthetically pleasing digital content? #INeLearn
R4: Design for mobile. During an e-learning day, whether power or internet issues are the root cause, many students may be attempting to access content on a much smaller screen than normal. Big buttons with clear labels and appropriate text size are a must. #INeLearn
A4 - Lately, I’ve been using Google Slides as a way to create content that are aesthetically pleasing. It’s a good way to show step-by-step processes, procedures, chunking content together, etc.
With graphics, creating page banners and header icons are always good. #INeLearn
Q5: Who wants a healthy option? Grab that oatmeal cookie!
While we don’t need to argue over screen time and digital health tonight, let’s talk about how you get kids away from the screen on eLearning days. What offline activities/strategies do you love for eLearning? #INeLearn
Yes!! I take a Discussion prompt like “what surprised you?” type into google slides, increase ++++text size then add background color to make it pop #inelearn
A5 - have them use the world around them. Make an activity where they can print or take the directions with them but instruct them to do something that doesn’t involve technology - like demonstrating how they work out a math problem or a scavenger hunt. #INeLearn
Q5: Who wants a healthy option? Grab that oatmeal cookie!
While we don’t need to argue over screen time and digital health tonight, let’s talk about how you get kids away from the screen on eLearning days. What offline activities/strategies do you love for eLearning? #INeLearn
R5: I try to stick to the time limit for the assignment given by the district. I haven’t made something that intentionally asks kids to step away from the screen part of my assignment before. Definitely need to think about this more. #INeLearn
R5: Couple things - our districts has asked us to assign the same amount of work as on a 2-hr delay day (apx 30 min/class). Also, nothing wrong with old-school reading/journaling. Maybe even choice reading & be ready to share book title & summary the next day. #INeLearn
Q5: Who wants a healthy option? Grab that oatmeal cookie!
While we don’t need to argue over screen time and digital health tonight, let’s talk about how you get kids away from the screen on eLearning days. What offline activities/strategies do you love for eLearning? #INeLearn
Instruction delivered digitally. no tech application. Image of the application turned in digitally. It's hard to answer bc I want these decisions to be driven by learning objectives #INeLearn
Q6: Fruitcake?! Yuck! It’s not even a cookie! Get it out of here! No one likes this, but we keep selling it.
What is a practice we need to ditch for eLearning days?
#INeLearn
Great question! It all depends on the objective and activity. You can structure a reflection response where they can report on what they did and the result. Although this is technically screen time, having a parent record then doing the activity is also a possibility. #INeLearn
#INelearn#R6 when I taught 8th grade, we had an end of year trip to Six Flags. My mantra during snow days was... "this would be a great time to make that Six Flags money!"... it worked, sometimes
R5: I've thought about what you could do for Ss who might not have a book or reading materials at home. Maybe send something home with them at some pt. before you have an eLearning days? #INeLearn
R6: Assigning too much work for secondary students on elearning days. Just because you teach a 60 min class doesn’t mean you give 60 min of work..and those kids have 6 or 7 classes. #inelearn
Q6: Fruitcake?! Yuck! It’s not even a cookie! Get it out of here! No one likes this, but we keep selling it.
What is a practice we need to ditch for eLearning days?
#INeLearn
R6: My introduction to eDays as a parent --> https://t.co/h7AqqgAwT8. We spent (no lie) like 5 hours at the dining room table doing a math worksheet of 15 systems of linear equation problems. Not terribly inappropriate, but I'd like to not do that to my students. #INeLearn
Q6: Fruitcake?! Yuck! It’s not even a cookie! Get it out of here! No one likes this, but we keep selling it.
What is a practice we need to ditch for eLearning days?
#INeLearn
A6 - videos for the sake of videos. Watching a video is always passive - students need to do something active with the video. Videos are not a magical band aid - and I say this as a person who loves to create and edit videos! #INeLearn
R6: the idea that eLearning days are so different. When we teach in blended environments on a regular basis, the transition is natural. We can't throw our kids in a foreign space just for the day #INeLearn
I have students tell me that they’re supposed to watch and respond to a video, and the video alone eats up more than the supposed time allotment per period for e-learning! #INeLearn
Q7: Hehe, left this one in the oven a little too long. Oops!
Share an eLearning failure of yours, and then share what you learned from it.
It’s okay to burn a couple cookies here and there, as long as use them as lessons to improve in the future. ;) #INeLearn
R7: Well check back with me after our first one.. right now we will do it on Presidents Day but we have our plan ready for bad weather anytime now.. I’ve tried to be as proactive as I can 😂 #inelearn
Q7: Hehe, left this one in the oven a little too long. Oops!
Share an eLearning failure of yours, and then share what you learned from it.
It’s okay to burn a couple cookies here and there, as long as use them as lessons to improve in the future. ;) #INeLearn
R7: I definitely imported an assignment from Commons for a class that I thought was perfect, tested the first 3-4 questions, and missed the fact that question 7 had completely blank answer choices. One more reason I prefer home-made. #INeLearn
R5: We may not have eLearning days at my school district currently, but here was the “screen free” challenge I sent my students on a surprise snow day. #INeLearn
Okay guys. I think it’s time for me to go find an actual cookie. Thanks for a fun chat! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season. I’m so grateful for my #INeLearn family.
