This special report includes:
p. 4 The Decision to Move Classes Online as Coronavirus Spreads
The U. of Washington took the first steps, and more colleges are following daily.
p. 8 Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start
Michelle D. Miller offers a primer.
p. 11 How to Be a Better Online Teacher: A Comprehensive Advice Guide
Flower Darby covers the nuts and bolts in this thorough document.
p. 24 4 Lessons From Moving a Face-to-Face Course Online
Kevin Gannon finds that online teaching isn’t better or worse than the face-to-face variety — just different.
p. 28 Live From My Living Room, It’s My Classroom!
Esther C. Kim shares tips from the home front on how to better engage students online.
p. 31 Resources
How to use technology to give your students better feedback.
To accommodate all learners (and time zones!), you can record your teaching sessions via Google Hangouts Meet.
To share resources with your students, you can take advantage of Google Drive.
If you prefer to use Google Drive, you can also share files and folders in a variety of ways.
One key thing you may want to consider when sharing files is to give students a key in the title of the file or folder as to when the piece needs to be read by. An example of this could be: "03_10_filename.pdf" - this tells students to read/view the file by March 10th.
You can schedule a Google Hangouts Meet through the calendar - setting up an appointment or directly from Meet.
If you'd like to switch from a video of you, to a presentation, to other things on your screen, you can do so using screen share. Find out more about screen sharing.
Adding a forum to your class allows you to interact with your students in a variety of ways. Adding a general discussion forum allows you and your students to start new conversations and to reply to each other. See Learninghouse resources for setting up Forums.
Use Hypothesis right now to hold discussions, read socially, organize your research, and take personal notes. Check out this Teacher's Guide and start using this robust tool now.