Remote Learning with Zoom
Facilitators: Jennifer Bergland and Peggy Reimers
Session Description
Learn some ways to engage your students in a Zoom meeting.
Table of Contents
Polls
The polling feature for meetings allows you to create single choice or multiple choice polling questions for your meetings. You will be able to launch the poll during your meeting and gather the responses from your attendees. You also have the ability to download a report of polling after the meeting. Polls can also be conducted anonymously, if you do not wish to collect participant information with the poll results.
Each poll can have multiple questions. If your poll has multiple questions, the participants must complete each question before submitting the answers.
You can create a poll while you are in a Zoom meeting, but it will take you to the settings section to do so.
***Special Note - Requires a paid account***
Classroom Ideas
Create an ice breaker to warm your students up at the beginning of a class
Pre-check-in on how comfortable they feel about something
Create an exit ticket at the end of a lesson
In workshops, get the feel of their comfort level
Pre-check-in on how comfortable they feel about something
Use a poll to check for understanding
Don't forget parents love polls also
Nonverbal Feedback
Attendees can place an icon beside their name (found in the participants pane) to communicate with the host and other participants without disrupting the flow of the meeting. Icons include: Raise hand, yes, no, go slower, go faster, thumbs up, thumbs down, applause, need a break and away.
Classroom Ideas
Use hands to celebrate individual or whole group celebrations
Have a lightning fast yes/no poll or pacing survey
Gather informal feedback from students in regards to lesson progression
Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, and can switch between sessions at any time.
Classroom Ideas
Show & Tell
Brainstorm Ideas
Reflection & Takeaways
Group Discussions
Scenario Roleplaying
Creative Problem Solving
Peer Feedback
Book Buddies
Icebreakers
Jigsaw Method
Set up your breakout rooms to be escape rooms. Students have to work together to end the meeting early.
Set up your breakout rooms for the different ways students may want to work.
Breakout room #1: Students that want to work independently.
Breakout room #2: Students that want to work alone, but like to collaborate with classmates minimally.
Breakout room #3: Students that want to collaborate pretty much the entire time (extroverts).
Breakout room #4: Students who want a one-to-one with the teacher.
If you create a slide for each breakout room group and have students work there, you can set it to grid view and see which groups need help and track their progress while on Zoom. To do this, create a slide deck with identical slides for the number of groups you’ll have. Different colors or symbols help to differentiate the groups. Share a link to the slide deck in the chat with your class before you go to breakout rooms, then students will have access to the doc.
Make a copy of the slide deck here.
Contents via a Second Camera
Share information from a second device - In a Zoom meeting, select Share Screen. Click the Advanced tab. Click Content from 2nd Camera.
Classroom Ideas
Remote Learning document camera
Live piano lessons
Math manipulatives (coins, counters, base ten blocks, LEGOs, etc.)
Annotation
Annotation allows you to draw on a shared screen, and Whiteboard allows you to write on a blank screen everyone can see. ... To annotate, select the Annotate tool while sharing your screen. This option will bring up a new toolbar with a variety of ways to doodle on your screen.
You can disable attendee annotation and turn on "Show Names of Annotators" during a Zoom Meeting.
One other tip - Annotation is not available on Chromebooks.
Classroom Ideas
Share your screen and display a graphic organizer. Select a student (s) to insert text on the organizer. You could also create a Google slide deck with the graphic organizer on multiple slides and have the students complete the assignment in Breakout rooms.
As you are reviewing material with you class you can underline, highlight, or make other markings to help emphasize the material the students are looking at.
Share your screen so that your students are seeing a document you created with an image, diagram, map, etc. Then have one or more identify something on the image using the annotation tools.
The Spotlight tools functions as a pointer.
Whiteboard
The whiteboard feature will allow you to share a whiteboard that you and other participants (if allowed) can annotate on.
Classroom Ideas
Students can demonstrate their work on the whiteboard.
A teacher can demonstrate how to complete a task or an assignment.
The class can brainstorm on the whiteboard.
Contents via an iPhone/iPad
Wireless Airplay Mirroring is a one-click method to share content from a iPhone or iPad device to a Zoom Room. This uses the Airplay bonjour protocol to communicate between a Zoom client on MacOS/iOS and a Zoom Room.
Classroom Ideas
Use as a document camera.
Demo how to do something on an iPad or an iPhone.
Show pictures or videos from your iPad or iPhone.
I would be interested in class management inside if Zoom. I see a lot of our teachers struggling with this and it’s hard to give the right answers to their questions.
Rules K-8 District Policy
Stay muted
No yelling
Listen to teacher
No eating
Keep video on
Use real name
Q : Any issue with camera on?
A : No, since it is school policy. If a child misbehaves, they get warned then removed.
Afterwards, phone conference with parent. Teacher only had this issue once and afterwards, no more issues.
Comments on the Camera
This was discussed in the Lunch & Learn webinar and many participants and the staff at TCEA do not believe cameras should be required.
Q : Do you think if a teacher has good classroom management physically, the same goes for virtually?
A : It all comes down to relationships...The teacher needs to build them quick and strong. And it is how the teacher speaks to their students. They don't want to disappoint her.