Concurrent Teaching Tips: Classroom Technology

To help with the flow of concurrent instruction, teachers can do the following:

1. Open the Meet on the laptop. Connect the laptop to the projector. Instruction can take place on the laptop. Keep the camera on and the microphone on. This is where the at-home student sees and hears you. You can present from your laptop.  

2.Open the Google Meet on the Desktop. Mute the microphone and video. This is where teachers can visually “see” the virtual student. This way if teachers are showing the iPad or other work through the laptop, teachers can still “see” the student at home on the Desktop.

3. If a whiteboard or document camera is needed: Open the Meet on the iPad. Mute microphone and camera. Share the iPad screen through the Meet and use Explain Everything or use it as a document camera. (QuickTime can be used, but it has been finicky and not reliable.) You can pin the iPad on your laptop Google Meet to make it larger for in-person students to see.

All students now see the instruction either on the board in school or at home through the Google Meet.