STEP ONE: CREATING A YOUTUBE ACCOUNT 1. Go to www.youtube.com 2. In the upper right corner should be a SIGN-UP button. Just go through the process of signing up. It is up to you if you want to use your ateneo.edu email account or a personal one. 3. Once you’ve signed up, go back to youtube. In the upper right …
Having an offline version of your Canvas courses provides you with a safety net in case of cyber risks (hacking) and bandwidth challenges. It is also a useful resource for your students who may use it for reviewing previously uploaded lessons. For teachers, offline courses are useful for editing for an entirely different audience …
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Rubrics may be holistic or analytic. Holistic rubrics make use of one single criterion for marking while analytic ones provide several criteria and rate each criterion. Below are samples of rubrics for assessing different types of asynchronous and synchronous learning such as discussion posts and research presentations. Rubrics for marking essays and capstone projects are …
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Take it from the masters. Here are some of the recommendations from online learning gurus, whose combined online teaching experience has spanned for over a century! Asynchronous classes need not be a task in isolation and the students’ experience, in fact can be a learning process. To engage the students, a material that is normally …
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If you are a tecky and would like to have an enhanced Google Meets with your students, consider adding these extensions from Chrome, a popular browser. Extensions may be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store where you can get a host of useful add ons such as Screencastify, Pocket etc from a world of apps …
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Mr Rivera, a member of the PolSci faculty has produced some videos which featured resource speakers. This has given a live in-person class feel to his teaching and has connected his students to the “outside world”. Among his tips include preparing with the resource speakers, such as explaining the nature of the talk, the duration, …
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Below is a short description of the preparations that Mr Miguel Rivera, a member of the PolSc faculty made for his synchronous classes. Decide on a definite platform for announcements. Platforms that can accommodate announcements, forums, as well as video conferencing all-at-once should be preferred. Prepare the equipment. Smartphones are the default. However, for these …
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A pre-recorded audio-video is a very useful asynchronous tool to enhance your student’s self-paced learning. Most effective videos are short and thematic.
Technology can pave the way to an asynchronous interactive learning process.
Teaching on a Learning Management System (LMS) has its advantages, the first of which is the benefit of a centralized (and private) platform for communicating with students.