Screen Sharing
Screen sharing allows participants to show the whole group what is on a tab or screen they are using. It can increase engagement by having students share to show their thinking, present their learning, or demonstrate a process. Teacher screen sharing can be used to model a process or share a prompt that students respond to. Screen sharing permissions can be limited in the settings to allow all to share or only select participants.
Presenting/Modeling
Purpose
Gradual Release “I Do, We Do, You Do,” Peer Teaching, Student-led Instruction
Process
Teachers and students alike can share screens to model a process, present information, and practice in reciprocal teaching, where students are able to take the lead in teaching what they’ve learned. This can be done in large groups or partners to increase participation, engagement, and learning.
How are you feeling? Check in
Purpose
Wellbeing, Social-Emotional Check In, To provide a quick way to check-in and connection with students at the start of class.
Process
Have a variety of numbered photos showing a variety of emotions on one screen for students to see. Provide time for students to respond with how they are feeling by responding in the chat, holding up their fingers, or writing it on a piece of paper.
Examples of Meme Mood Boards (These could be adapted to also be put throughout a lesson as well.)
Welcoming/Agenda Board
Purpose
Build Relationships, Clarify Objectives/Purpose, Provide a schedule to welcome and display information/materials needed for lesson as students enter
Process
Create the welcoming board ahead of the lesson. Could be added to the beginning of your content slides.
Prior to students entering your meeting room, share your screen so the presentation is displayed. *Ideally this is only displayed for a few moments at the start of class as students are entering the ‘room.’ Examples: Templates to Use
Chat
Using the chat tool can increase engagement by allowing more students to interact during your lesson. It’s important to think about how, when, and where you want to allow students to engage in chat. If you have a co-teacher, monitor or responsible student who can filter comments, you might allow students to use chat throughout the lesson. If you don’t, you might choose to use the feature at specific points within your lecture
Waterfall responses
Purpose
Check for Understanding/Student Engagement
- After posing a question to students on Zoom, have students type their answers into chat, BUT DO NOT SEND!
- On your signal have them all press “send” together (i.e. on the count of 3 or when you say “waterfall”)
- You’ll see a waterfall of students’ responses sent at once.
Why? This strategy solicits responses from all students and can minimize “hitchhiking.” It can offer much better feedback about what students do and do not yet understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic_B_kla8nU&feature=youtu.be
Q&A
Purpose
Questioning, Clarifying Misconceptions, Check for Understanding, Extending Thinking
Process
In the chat, participants can ask questions and get answers from the teacher/host or other participants. This can also be where the teacher poses a question and the participants would enter their response
3-2-1
Purpose
Synthesis of Learning, Closure, Summarizing, Check for Understanding, Clarifying Misconceptions
Process
In the chat, have participants share 3 new things they learned, 2 things that confused them, and 1 way to apply what they have learned to their lives/the real world. Respond to the group and individuals as needed.
Breakout Rooms
You can use breakout rooms functionality to have students split into groups to discuss a topic or do group work.
As the host, you can assign breakout rooms, join breakout rooms, broadcast messages to the breakout rooms, and end the breakout sessions when it is time to come back together.
Ideas to utilize breakout rooms
Jigsaw
Purpose
To chunk larger pieces of information and/or documents for understanding.
Process
Create groups and give each person in the group a section of the reading/Information to read and become an “expert” on.
Possibly pair this with a graphic organizer (Google doc that groups are working together on) Each group member shares out their key points to their small group
Additionally, for accountability purposes, you can have each group answer a culminating question about the entire piece/document that you will be able to see or hear.
You may want to consider giving each group different questions if they’re all working on the same Google Doc for different points of view
Virtual Corners
Purpose
Identify, make public, and process members’ preferences.
Process
Share screen to show choices
- Use the chat to indicate selection
- Divide groups into breakout rooms to discuss. The participants would decide what breakout room to join
Think, Pair/Group, Share
Purpose
Engagement, Processing
Process
Pose a question or task and have students think independently. Then place pairs in breakout rooms to discuss and solidify their answers. Come back together as a whole group and have pairs share out.
Two Step Interview
Purpose
Structure that allows for pair processing, focused listening, community building
Process
- Pairs take individual think time to be ready to share. Each member of the pair shares their thinking around the prompt. To their partner or the “interviewer”.
- The “interviewer” needs to be ready to share highlights of what their partner said in response to the prompt.
- Pairs then take turns “introducing” their partner to the whole group and sharing highlights or a summary of their partner’s thinking.
5-3-1
Purpose
To organize and integrate, allow individuals to synthesize information
Process
- Individuals identify 5 words that represent previous learning (or from a reading, lesson, video, etc).
- Open up breakout rooms and place students in pairs. With partners, each person share their 5 words (rally-robin style)
- Select 3 central ideas that emerge
- Choose 1 word that best describes the central ideas. If these three ideas were to go into a container with a label, what would the label be?
- Come back as a whole group and have each pair share.
Polling
Polling is a great way to increase student participation in class.
You can set up polls in advance or on the spot and launch them during your class session to gather feedback from your students
Opinions and Evidence
Purpose
Student Engagement, Build argumentative writing/speaking skills
Process
Create a poll for students to vote on. Then have them use the chat to cite evidence to support their choice in the poll.
Cascading Persuasion
Purpose
Check for Understanding
Process
Create a multiple choice question with a single correct answer from a previous learning (or reading). If a significant number of students get the answer wrong, place the students in pairs and have each persuade the other why their answer is correct. When the group reaches a consensus, they move on to another classmate. The consensus cascades through the class and typically their collective knowledge comes to the correct answer.
Virtual Whiteboards
You can use virtual whiteboards to annotate, draw, write and create in a collaborative space that all can see.
These tools can be used on either blank canvas or on an overlay of other content. An image of the screen can be saved for future reference.
Highlight and Annotate
Purpose
Marking Text
Process
Students can use whiteboards and whiteboard tools to identify main ideas, supporting details, key words or phrases
Draw diagrams or concepts
Note-taking, Brainstorming, Solving
A whiteboard space can be opened to use similar to scrap paper to jot notes, diagram, or solve. Students can then screen share or capture and save/submit their work.