What is Distance Learning?

Creating Schedules to Share and Book Appointments with Students

• How to use Calendly or Youcanbook.me for scheduling one-on-one meetings

• How to use Doodle to coordinate multiple schedules to find a common meeting time

• If you don’t have a Learning Management System (LMS) or you don’t like its calendar feature, here’s how to create a shared Google or Outlook calendar.

What distance learning can look like (variety of ideas, not meant to be requirements or the only ideas):

• Learning and reflection activities that can happen periodically throughout the day

• Short videoconference one on one with students checking in with them to see how they are doing and to remind them that they are amazing and that you miss them

• Brief video reviewing or providing new instruction on one micro-component of a concept – (keep to 5 minutes or less)

• Discussions through a group or class in whatever learning management system (LMS) or social networking platform your school is using (e.g., Seesaw, Google Classroom, Canvas, Facebook, Edmodo)

• Texts or posts sharing micro-learning or mini challenges**

• A little-known fact related to a topic your class has been studying

• A video that they would enjoy on a subject you have worked on

• A challenge to do 10 jumping jacks, gather their dirty clothes, etc

**The purpose of this isn’t as much about the activity as it is about the connection to the students**

• Learning Challenges that make learning fun (example below)

• Consider the age of the students you are teaching and the learning objectives for that grade level

• Create a challenge, something fun they can do at home without a lot of instruction that will help them to apply learning you provided previously or new learning, using items they can find in their house

• Record a short video to introduce the challenge and explain what they will be doing.

• Record support videos that teach or review the concept that is the focus of the challenge.

• Provide a variety of activities they can choose to share their learning

• Write a paragraph

• Video record their “findings”

• Create an infographic

• Draw a picture

• Make a song

• Make sure students know how they are to “turn in” in their product

• There is no limit to how you are sharing and facilitating learning in an online platform, and since not all students learn the same way, it is best to use multiple options