
Introduce the course and what they will learn. After watching this lecture, students will have a clear idea of what they will learn by going through the course.
Eric introduces himself. He shares his experience as a teacher and explains the value that he can bring to anyone who works through this course.
Course details and what you can expect after going through this course
Creating engaging lessons to suit your learners
Create a curriculum to cover all the essential skills and knowledge your students need to learn
Why is Zoom the best platform to teach on?
Set up your classes for success. Connect to your learners to prepare them for class.
Explanation of the settings in Zoom.
Scheduling a meeting with learners.
Ideal lighting, sound, video, background and tips on how to look good on camera.
Learn how to change your waiting room to share rules and procedures with learners
Explanation of the Zoom Toolbar.
Adding students to the Zoom meeting.
Background ideas for teaching classes with Zoom.
Different Views when using Zoom
Use filters to make meetings more fun and use themes.
Whiteboard functions, ideas and strategies to use in online classes.
Master Zoom's share screen function, including whiteboard, annotation, sharing to breakout rooms, and advanced options like portion sharing, audio/video, virtual backgrounds, and cloud files.
Chatting in Zoom.
Use Zoom reactions to engage students.
Breakout Rooms allows the host to place participants into rooms together. This is arguably the best tool to use for teachers who teach multiple students.
A new Zoom update allows participants to move to other Breakout Rooms on their own.
Introducing the new Zoom Apps feature.
Use the polling function to ask students questions to check their understanding and make dull classes fun.
Explanation of Section C : Teaching.
Use procedures to get the best out of your learners.
Leverage the flipped classroom with pre-class messages to deliver vocabulary, grammar, and present continuous tense basics, so students arrive ready to practice speaking in online Zoom lessons.
Log into zoom, invite students, and start with quick check-ins; then conduct a roll call, share the day’s plan, and outline warm-ups, content, and group activities.
Review what students learned after each online class to reinforce memory and confidence, using a mom point and a checklist to clearly communicate progress to parents.
Links to free Online Games
Share Zoom links securely, or use a room ID and password. Slow down, pause for responses, and use polls, chat, and breaks.
Speak conversationally as if addressing one student to foster a collaborative online environment, guiding discussion with breakout rooms, questions, polls, and pre-class messages.
Liveworksheets.com is a fantastic resource to teach with.
10 Great games for online (and face-to-face) classes
A fun game you can play with learners when their video is on
How to teach Online with Zoom will help teachers become expert online teachers and master Zoom to effectively teach students online.
It focuses on teaching the Zoom platform and gives ideas, techniques, games and activities to help teachers become more confident at teaching online.
This course will share the fundamentals of being a great online teacher and share more games and ideas to make you the best online teacher you can be.
Even though the course focuses on Zoom, the ideas taught can be applied to any online teaching platform.
This course is broken into 4 sections:
A: Introduction to Online Teaching
B: How to use Zoom to teach effectively
C: Teaching Online - Ideas, Techniques, Games and Online Activities
D: Extra Files - Extra videos and real-life examples of activities
Section A: Introduction
1. Who am I?
2. What will you learn?
3. Teacher Mindset
4. Learners
5. Curriculum
a. Focus on HOTS
b. Basics
c. Relevant
d. Scaffold – Add Present Continuous B-roll
e. Checklist
Section B: Zoom
1. Why Zoom?
2. Class Setup
3. Zoom Settings
4. Schedule a Meeting
5. Looking good on Zoom
6. Zoom Toolbar
7. Inviting Participants
8. Background
9. Filters
10. Whiteboard
11. Messages – Remember Save Chat/ Auto-save
12. Reactions – Need video?
13. Breakout Rooms
14. Polling
Section C: Teaching Online with Zoom
1. Procedures
2. Pre-Class Message
3. Lesson Structure
4. Starting Class
5. Warm-up
6. Pickers – Need video
7. Lecture
8. Activities – Checking up on students in the Breakout rooms
9. Games
a. Drawing, house, monster
10. Review
11. More Tips
12. Conclusion
Section D: Extra Files and Games
1. Extra Tips
2. Real Games
Thank you for joining this course! Please let me know if you have any questions or valuable input to share!
Kind Regards,
Eric