This document discusses strategies for making online teaching a humane, meaningful, and enjoyable experience during lockdown. It emphasizes using tools like WhatsApp and Google Drive to foster personal relationships and collaboration. Live video conferencing with Zoom can incorporate activities involving movement, role plays, and collaborative tasks to match the real-life classroom experience. The document advocates a humanistic approach using these tools to keep the learner's experience and well-being as the focus, in order to create a lasting and positive learning experience.

1. Turning online lessons into
a humane, meaningful and
enjoyable experience
Csilla Jaray-Benn, France
Université Grenoble Alpes
Business English Services
Teachers Learning2gether Summit, 9-10 Oct, 2020
The Internet for Education: The New Normal to Survive Lockdown

2. „We had to turn overnight
to online teachers without
proper training for it.”
– Dina El-Dakhs

3. Teaching
online
is like ….
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4. Connection
real life
Lasting experience
Distant
Unreal
Ephemeral
« the cause of the change is the learner’s
experience in the environment » - E. Meyer

5. - Richard E. Mayer
“LEARNING is the relatively permanent change in
a person’s knowledge or behavior due to
experience. This definition has three components:
1) the duration of the change is LONG-TERM
rather than short-term;
2) the locus of the change is the CONTENT and
STRUCTURE of knowledge in memory or the
behavior of the learner;
3) the cause of the change is the LEARNER’S
EXPERIENCE IN THE ENVIRONMENT (…).”

6. Distance
Education
1840
Isaac Pitman
1920s - 1980s - 1991
Photo by Elena Ferrer on Unsplash

7. teaching online
Online
Teaching
Content
Models
Exercises
Asynchronous
Synchronous
Blended
EXPERTS
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash
CHOICE
Enjoyable
learning
environment
Positive
learning
experience
?

8. Selecting
Tools
Clean
Online Tool « Combo »
Criteria
1. Natural & meaningful personal
relationship
2. Collaboration & creativity
3. Balance between new and
familiar
Familiar & Friendly
Collaborative
Creative

9. WhatsApp Real-life communication
Well-being check
Clarifications, logistics
Song, article to comment on
Group discussions
Suggestions, group feedback
Personal opinion
Voice messages
Short
Meaningful
Personal
Communication

10. Real-Life Communication Samples
Clarification Personal opinionVideo comment Discussion Voice message

11. Real-life contentGoogle Drive
Padlet
Book Creator
Collaborative
Creative
Content creation
Collaborative library
Assigned reflective questions
Course log: Lockdown Diary
Vocabulary, grammar
White board!

12. Reflective Activities
Things I do differently today (lists,
letter)
I’m responsible for (lists, dialogues)
My strategies to cope with the lockdown (lists)
Acts of Happiness Calendar for April (drawing)
What I’ve learnt over the past five weeks (survey)
Lockdown Report to the Prime Minister (report)

13. Live sessionsZoom
Meaningful
Relationship
Body language
Eye contact
Non-verbal cues
Matching emotions
Identity perception
Personal space
Silence
Multitasking
Private sphere
Meaningful
Content

14. Zoom Activities
I and You (observation)
Collaborate off the screen (writing)
Collaborative task (survey)
My room (movement)
Real-life activities (cooking)
Silent activities (poems)
My voice (role-plays, debates)

15. « Combo »
WhatsApp
Experience
Interaction
Content
Live sessionsZoom
Google Drive
Padlet
Book Creator

16. Humanistic use
of online tools
Person in focus
Enjoyable
Positive
Lasting experience

17. Lasting Experience
Created with Book Creator

18. Lasting Experience

19. Teaching
online
can be….
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20. Photo by Anna Benn
CONTEXT
Online
teaching vs.
teaching
online
TOOLS
Tools with
pedagogy
PRINCIPLES
Humanistic
use of online
tools
METHOD
Collaborative
Creating Learning

21. Photo by Anna Benn
Csilla jaray-Benn
www.bes-grenoble.com
csilla.benn@gmail.com
Member of
the Creativity Group
thecreativitygroup.weebly.com
Jaray-Benn, Csilla. Make It Human: In
Between Screens and Faces. Reflections
on Nine Weeks of Lessons During
Lockdown.
Humanizing Language Teaching. June
2020. Year 22. Issue 3.
www.hltmag.co.uk/june2020/make-it-
human
https://tinyurl.com/y5lhlver
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