Another quick post before I start teaching in 20 minutes.
Sandy Millin's blog post on The Rock's voice-over inspired me.
Just how the online classroom is supposed to be different to the face-to-face setup in terms of activity formats:
- the Analog online classroom
At one extreme, we've moved EFL lessons online but are still relying on the traditional way of teaching.
Students have access to coursebooks, the teacher uses shared Word documents of picture files (jpg/png) to hand out role cards and worksheets. The chat box as a whiteboard. Much relies on communicating through our webcam videos.
This has the potential of developing into Dogme in Online ELT. - the Digital online classroom
At the other extreme, we see dazzling (in a positive sense) digital resources. The seemingly infinite amount of free products to enhance our lessons.
On this point, Wordwall seems to have the best integrated features - it combines Kahoot, Quizlet and Google Jamboard. Jamboard is student-centred, interactive, and suitable to group work, whereas Wordwall seems to be a one-way presentation of tasks and materials.
Google Doc is as good as Padlet. Padlet seems to be better suited to group work since there's a single 'pad' (board) for multiple posts. - The Integrated online classroom
Would this be the new 'principled eclecticism'?