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Making online
students feel
right at home
MMVC15 by rob howard August 7th, 2015
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at home(s) with me
warm-up
Do you teach
face-2-face?
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warm-up
Do you teach
online?
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warm-up
What makes you feel
“at home”?
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Home is…
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Merciful
Reliable
Home is…
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WARM
Home is…
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Yours
Zone
Home is…
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COZY
picture this
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this is the real picture
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Students should be…
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paying attention
ontask
Students should be…
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entertained
enjoy
The results will be…
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coming back
happy
The class will fulfill…
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learning
needs
How do we touch them online?
can we?
should we?
do we?
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home rules
have fun
smile
ease tension
remove fear
foster
community
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“the key to learning English is to lower stress.
having fun when you learn is when you learn
best.” - fluency mc
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use students’ names
live people
self importance
grabs attention
personalized
class
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“… a person’s name is to that person the
sweetest and most important sound in any
language.”
– dale carnegie
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personalization
open up
modeling
yourself
share
themselves
build
friendships
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personalized practice
know them
use their lives
memorable
internalize
usage
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“… we should set them an example that we
wish them to imitate.”
– brigham young
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have students do the work
attention
practice
on their toes
has a purpose
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use “local” pictures (your own)
tailored to them
local culture
local issues
shows
dedication
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use poll questions
warm-up
effective
opinion
discussion
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“different people have opinions, and it’s okay
to respect all of them.”
– juan pablo galavis
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mix the activities
change often
dynamic
fast paced
keep ‘em
guessin’
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continuity
pace
flow
segue
interest
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use short films only
20-30 seconds
critically useful
cute snippets
tune out
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would rather be doing
use short films only
20-30 seconds
critically useful
cute snippets
tune out
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would rather be doing
use a “round robin” Q & A
focused
more personal
all involved
full attention
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ask a hot topic question
controversy
life language
use the
language
give them voice
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“now this looks like a job for me, so everybody,
just follow me, ‘cause we need a little
controversy...”
– eminem
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reflect
ask for
feedback
they own class
did it work?
improvement?
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questions
thanks for joining me
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MAKE ONLINE STUDENTS FEEL RIGHT AT HOME
rob-howard@outlook.com
rob@onlinelanguagecenter.com
www.onlinelanguagecenterblog.com
FREE WEBATHON
Making online
students feel
right at home
Part of the 4th annual
Moodle MootVirtual Conference
(MMVC15) for 2015 hosted by
Dr. Nellie Deutsch - Ed.D &WizIQ
Webathon runs Aug. 7th to 9th
http://moodlemoot.integrating-technology.org/
with rob howard
Friday, August 7th at 3pm Est (19:00 gmt)
FREE WEBATHON
Click on the link above to join the session

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