Online games & Zoom instructions

At this point (2023), online teaching is reflected everywhere in this site. This page has some very specific tools for teaching online.

Games for online teaching

• Zoom Games

• Breaking Through the Screen: Activities to Build Community in Remote Classes

• LearnHip - Free, use their games or create your own! (my new favorite)

• Wordwall.net - 5 free games, then need to pay. Create your own quizzes, many different formats (or use other people's)

• Jeopardy Labs: Free - Create your own Jeopardy games, or use others'

• Flippity.net: Free - Create various online games using Google sheets

• These are pre-made games, but there are a lot of them by topic & they're self-correcting (roughly in my order of preference): 

  • www.gamestolearnenglish.com/ 

  • https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/ 

  • www.eslgamesplus.com/ 

  • a4esl.org/  (this one also has bilingual quizzes in a ton of languages)

• Fun Youtube quizzes

• Great descriptions of "old fashioned" games that are easy to play onlin

• Great video-based games: games4esl youtube site

Zoom / Whatsapp, etc. instructions

• Lots of user-friendly instructions for Zoom, Whatsapp and Google Meet (scroll down to see "guides for learners" to get Zoom guides in different languages)

• Zoom for attendees (the screenshots are from 2020 so may look a bit different now, but the differences are not huge)

  • Zoom on a phone (see below for tips)

  • Zoom on a computer

  • Zoom on a tablet

  • Zoom in a breakout room

  • Want to see your classmates? (Speaker to Gallery View & back)

• For teachers - how to see more students when sharing your screen

• Sending Zoom invitations in different languages

About doing Zoom on a phone

• Suggest that participants turn their phone sideways - they'll see your screen shares much bigger

• Suggest that participants can swipe toward the left and continue swiping to see other participants. If the host is sharing their screen, swiping toward the left lets you see the host and other participants.

• I found it hard to hold a phone in a good position (where the camera showed me in the video window) for more than about 5 minutes. Sometimes students may be able to prop up their phones, but we need to understand if they can't.