EdTech Center News: New Tech Tips Post + Distance Ed Strategy Session #15
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Strategies for Classroom Interaction
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Student engagement is connected to learning motivation and positive learning outcomes. How can teachers encourage students to interact in a virtual classroom? Rachel Riggs shares about strategies she used when her ESL classes were moved online due to COVID-19.
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Webinar:
Distance Education Strategy Sessions
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Join the EdTech Center today at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the 15th installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions.
This webinar will cover issues important to consider when integrating volunteers into your distance education programming and instruction. We will feature lightning talks from two experts on the subject: Rob Podlasek from Literacy Minnesota and Todd Evans from ProLiteracy. Learn how their organizations address challenges like: supporting volunteers, structuring programming to make best use of volunteers, training and onboarding volunteers, and attending to security and privacy issues. Following the lightning talks, we’ll break into two discussions and you can choose which topic you’d like to further explore.
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Small Group Coaching:
Design A Weebly Class Website
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Did you know you can add your existing Weebly websites into Google Classroom? Come back with your questions for a second session after you have had a chance to explore Weebly. Join us Next Friday, August 14th at 1PM EST to learn or get a refresher on how to design an easy to read, user-friendly Weebly website for your class.
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COVID-19 Rapid Response Report from the Field
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This report, published by ProLiteracy, reflects findings from a collaborative effort of the EdTech Center and the Evidence Based Adult Education System (EBAES) initiative of the Open Door Collective. The findings include results from a survey of nearly 1000 program administrators and teachers woven into thematic observations from the EBAES coordinated interviews of a range of adult basic skills stakeholders. Read the report to learn about the challenges faced by programs as they moved their instruction to distance education in response to the pandemic and the innovations that supported success. |
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