Welcome!
You are probably wondering what use this website has. Why, you as an educator would have need of it. Well, let us answer that one for you.
21st century teaching and learning pedagogies and skills are more important than ever. More and more sites are having to move to online teaching and learning instead of the fail safe face-to-face model. With these changes, there is much that we as educators need to learn about. From what is a Digital Learning Environment (DLE) to Digital Citizenship to the mode your site has chosen to operate in to the tools that you can use in your online delivery.
This website can do the following:
We will be giving you a couple of tasks to complete in this website; these should not frighten you. The intention of this is to ensure that you all are understanding what we are teaching you and to make sure that you can implement them in a practical manner.
You will find that some of the language in this website is quite informal - we are you - we are working in education and we are with students in some capacity. We will use technical language where needed but, otherwise we want to have a conversation with you in the staff room or the office with a cup of our chosen beverage in our hands.
We hope that this website can help you excel as an educator in an online sphere and gain the skills needed to teach your students in a (for some) foreign environment.
You are probably wondering what use this website has. Why, you as an educator would have need of it. Well, let us answer that one for you.
21st century teaching and learning pedagogies and skills are more important than ever. More and more sites are having to move to online teaching and learning instead of the fail safe face-to-face model. With these changes, there is much that we as educators need to learn about. From what is a Digital Learning Environment (DLE) to Digital Citizenship to the mode your site has chosen to operate in to the tools that you can use in your online delivery.
This website can do the following:
- Assist you to organise your Google Classroom to allow for ease of use and in locating resources,
- Assist you in creating clear audio files,
- Assist you in creating and editing video files.
We will be giving you a couple of tasks to complete in this website; these should not frighten you. The intention of this is to ensure that you all are understanding what we are teaching you and to make sure that you can implement them in a practical manner.
You will find that some of the language in this website is quite informal - we are you - we are working in education and we are with students in some capacity. We will use technical language where needed but, otherwise we want to have a conversation with you in the staff room or the office with a cup of our chosen beverage in our hands.
We hope that this website can help you excel as an educator in an online sphere and gain the skills needed to teach your students in a (for some) foreign environment.
At the end of this module, any educator who has browsed the website should have covered at least one (if not more) of the following Learning Outcomes:
- Learning Outcome 1: Incorporate the knowledge gained in the Digital Everything section (Digital Learning Environment and Digital Citizenship) into your own practice and classrooms.
- Learning Outcome 2: Apply the content within the Google Classroom section to their own Digital Learning Environment Platform and build their own well-presented Digital Learning Environment ‘classroom’.
- Learning Outcome 3: Produce Internet-ready audio files to share with students.
- Learning Outcome 4: Use video editing software to produce effective video-based teaching.
© Nikita Mickan, Wendell Charles NeSmith and Elly Foster, April 2020.