Archive for April, 2020
Highlights from Meeting 4 on April 10, 2020
April 13, 2020: Teaching
This fourth online meeting, the community engaged in another Video Reflection. One of our RoP Leaders, Lindzy Bivings from California Academy of Sciences, volunteered to be educator-presenter. Given everyone’s focus on teaching online, Lindzy selected a lesson and problem from one of her distance learning classes with kindergarteners. These moments highlight the strength and versatility […]
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April 10, 2020: Uncategorized
For our third online meeting, we did another interactive science exploration. The Two Balloons hands-on activity comes from Module 3 Session 2. We wanted to offer another opportunity to model that teaching online can be interactive. It is possible that our learners (all of you) are more intrinsically motivated to stay with us than perhaps […]
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April 5, 2020: Teaching
This meeting focused on leading a Video Reflection online. We wanted to make the point that reflecting on your practice and problem solving together can continue to be done online. So, don’t stop those habits and routines. You are merely shifting them online. Catherine & I have been doing this for several years now with […]
Read More »Beware of uninvited disrupters
April 3, 2020: Teaching
With everyone using video conferencing platform like Zoom, there has been instances of Zoom bombing. Read the story from NPR to understand what is Zoom bombing. Protect yourself with settings to prevent zoom-bombing.
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April 3, 2020: Teaching
We had intended to teach from Canvas, but because not everyone had joined the course yet, we opted to use Google Slides. Here is the slide deck for today’s meeting. (I had intended to record the meeting, but totally forgot to click record. Plus watching these 90 minute meetings is not exciting.)I will highlight some of […]
Read More »it’s teaching online, not online learning
April 3, 2020: Uncategorized
The global pandemic requires us to all practice physical distancing. In the face of this distancing, we must push for social closeness and care. I sent out an email last week inviting and encouraging us to come together to learn and socialize from a distance. We scheduled four meetings in April for RoP Facilitators to […]
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