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Resources from session #6 on April 20, 2024
Share your work more widely & Celebrate Your Accomplishments
Invite colleagues to inspire them
Share with others teacher who may want to be involved
Invite your friends, family, supervisors, this is a proud moment
Our funders and colleagues who have previously participated in WELL
https://forms.gle/hY14mMy1RFaZ6Y9JA (this survey will also be email to you)
This survey has five parts, we look forward to your feedback. Thank you for your participation!
Resources from session #5 on April 6, 2024
Resources from Session #5
If you missed the session on April 6, or any of the previous sessions, review the slides and watch the session’s recording linked on our WELL website.
Next Steps
Please add your VFE project URL, title, and description to our spreadsheet so we can create a participant page for you and add your content. We’re asking each of you to create a 3-minute video about your project, directions are linked here.
More Support
If you want support, or just to discuss your ideas please or come to a “drop in session” on Sun April 14, 9:00 PT/AZ, 10:00 MT, 11:00 CT, 12:00 ET
https://arizona.zoom.us/j/82260716647
Or make an individual appointment jcastek@arizona.edu
Checklist for Your VFE Completion
Complete a VFE project that you will use in your classroom
Work should reflect
planning for instructional goals
connections to language and culture
development of connected scenes (images or 360)
Original annotations & hot-spot interaction points
Create a 3-min introduction video to your VFE (directions linked here) with more info provided in the weeks to come
Share the VFE on our WELL website (See our Participant Pages)
Present you nearly complete VFE for peer feedback (April 20) sign up here on Slides 30, 31,32)
Be ready with your 3 minute video the day of the Showcase (April 27)
Getting Ready for Showcasing your Work
Please have Your VFE Project Completed by April 20 for Peer Review. In this session, you will walk through your project with peers
Sat. April 27 will be our VFE Showcase to share your work in its final form
Between sessions, engage with our archived materials and push forward your VFE project. Here is a Google Slide deck with link to several Thinglink tutorials. These tutorials provide you access to step-by-step processes to follow. These slides are also linked to our WELL website.
Resources from session #4 on March 23, 2024
We appreciate Panna Leatherby for her inspiration. You can engage with her Visit China project here
Next Steps
We’re excited to see your project unfold and we’re here to help you. Please add your VFE project URL to our spreadsheet so we can review your work and provide some feedback and suggestions for moving your VFE forward.
More Support
If you want support, or just to discuss your ideas please or come to a “drop in session” on Saturday March 30 9 PT/AZ, 10 MT, 11 CT, 12 ET https://arizona.zoom.us/j/82260716647 Or make an individual appointment jcastek@arizona.edu
Checklist for Your VFE Completion
Complete a VFE project that you will use in your classroom
Work should reflect
planning for instructional goals
connections to language and culture
development of two connected scenes (images or 360)
Original annotations & hot-spot interaction points
Create a 3-min introduction video to your VFE (directions linked here) with more info provided in the weeks to come
Share the VFE on our WELL website (for our participants)
Present a nearly complete VFE for peer feedback (April 20)
Showcase (April 27)
Between sessions, engage with our archived materials and push forward your VFE project. Here is a Google Slide deck with link to several Thinglink tutorials. These tutorials provide you access to step-by-step processes to follow. These slides are also linked to our WELL website.
Getting Ready for Showcasing your Work
We look forward to seeing you in WELL Session #5 on Sat. April 6th. You should have your projects well underway and have begun executing your vision.
Please have Your VFE Project Completed by April 20 for Peer Review. In this session, peers and facilitators will provide direction for final refinements.
Sat. April 27 will be our VFE Showcase to share your work in its final form
Resources from previous sessions
If you missed any of the previous sessions, you are encouraged to review the slides and watch the session’s recording linked on our WELL website.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact aniqashah@arizona.edu
Resources from session #3 on March 9, 2024
Next Steps
Thank you so much for your presence and participation on Saturday, March 9th. It was great to interact with you today and hear your amazing thoughts and ideas. We appreciate Erika Tornberg for her inspiration. You can engage with her project here https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1567317660947972099
Goals of WELL
The goals of the WELL professional learning series is to:
1) attend the sessions to be a part of a learning community and
2) engage actively to learn
3) create a VFE that you can build on and use in your classroom
See slides 5-10 from our first session meeting on Feb. 3, 2024 to review our goals and responsibilities for participants.
Your Work
Between sessions, our strongest desire is that you engage with the materials and push forward your VFE project step-by-step between our meeting times. Your VFE design requires that you put time in to execute your plan and experiment with the Thinglink tool between sessions.
What’s Next?
We look forward to seeing you in WELL Session #4 on Sat. March. 24th. By this point in our work together, session #4, you should have your project planning well underway and have begun working in Thinglink. There are tutorials within the program step-by-step.
Need Support?
WELL facilitators will hold an additional support & work session on Sat. March 16 at 9am Pac & AZ, 10am MT, 11amCT, and 12pm EST. We will provide you with individualized support. If you have missed any sessions, this is your time to catch up!
March 24 SESSION TIMING PLEASE READ
If you are in Arizona, you will join the meeting at 8am instead of 9am.
Time: 8-10am Pac & AZ (NOTE CHANGE) 9-11am MT, 10-12 CT, and 11-1pm EST
here’s a link to a timezone converter for international time zones
Zoom meeting link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/82260716647
Resources from previous sessions
Interact with VFE examples made by teacher participants and their students
If you missed any of the previous sessions, you are encouraged to review the slides and watch the sessions’ recording linked on our WELL website.
Getting ready for Session #4
Have your project planning and introductory work in Thinglink underway
Use the Resource Library on our WELL website
Continue designing your VFE in conjunction with completing your flexible planning tool.
Keep track of your resources and image sourcing to create a Sources Cited list.
Have Your VFE Project Completed by April 20 for Peer Review
April 27 wil be our VFE Showcase to share your work!
Resources from session #2 on Feb. 17, 2024
Next Steps
Resources from sessions #1 and #2
Review slides and materials from Sessions 1 & 2, Feb. 3 and Feb. 17 on WELL website
Interact with VFE examples made by teacher participants and their students
Read and connect with responses in the Interactive Thinglink about VFEs for language learning, read the Google Doc as one example of collective insight.
Read/re-read the chat responses to the prompts in session #2 (in Zoom transcript). Your collective responses were VERY insightful and demonstrate a great way to share ideas with one another
If you missed sessions #1 & #2, You are encouraged to review the slides and watch the sessions’ recordings. We highly encourage you to come to session #3 and look forward to your presence and participation.
Getting ready for Session #3
Review slides and recordings to review
Explore Thinglink and start small with learning and exploring how to envision your VFE
Begin building your VFE project in conjunction with completing your flexible planning tool.
Keep track of your resources and image sourcing to create a Sources Cited list
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact aniqashah@arizona.edu
Resources from session #1 on Feb. 3, 2024
Next Steps
Get to know everyone in our WELL learning community; add your bio to the introductions Padlet
Interact with VFE examples made by teacher participants and their students
Review slides and materials from Session #1, Feb. 3rd posted on WELL website
Engage with your new Thinkglink account, experiment and explore with the tutorials
If you missed session #1, You are encouraged to review the slides and watch to session #1 recording. We highly encourage you to come to session #2 and look forward to your presence. Before session #2, complete the activity outlined on Slide 20. Add your responses in one of the rows on slides 22-24, including your name.
Getting ready for Session #2
Complete your planning sheet (use or adapt the flexible/customizable planning sheet in this folder) to add your ideas for a VFE you will design for your class.
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