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Increase Engagement in Video Conferencing Sessions with Mentimeter

Catlin Tucker

I also used the multiple-choice question feature to quickly gather data about what the participants thought about a few of the issues we discussed. I even used it this morning when presenting a webinar on online learning for a large group of educators in Africa. It changed the whole dynamic of the webinar.

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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Engagement Strategy #1 Pair the Video with Questions. You can use Screencastify (a new feature ) or Edpuzzle to insert questions into the video itself. Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment.

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Blended Learning: Design a Mini-playlist that Allows Students to Control the Pace of Their Learning

Catlin Tucker

Students Warm-up Poll Create a poll or multiple choice question in Mentimeter or Google Classroom to get students thinking about the topic or theme of the video. Starting it at the beginning of the week provides the flexibility of adding more class time to finish up towards the end of the week if necessary.

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5 educators share their ISTE experiences

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The Flipgrid experience helps grow social learning skills as students record, watch, discuss, react, and respond to their experiences and perspectives with each other. Free to all educators and accessible to students, parents, or audience of choice with link and password. Multiple-choice questions are shared on a screen.

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Schools Drop Acellus Learning Platform Over ‘Glaring’ Offensive Content

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As a new school year begins, a number of district leaders are scrambling to address concerns from parents and staff that their chosen online learning platform features content that is racist, sexist or inappropriate for children. following multiple police killings of Black people this year.

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Coronavirus Has Led to a Rush of Online Teaching. Here’s Some Advice for Newly Remote Instructors

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Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. Stachowiak suggests including at least three polls or opportunities to interact during each online class session. But you're saying that this is not a time to say, “go away from online learning.”

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Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining Competency-Based Education

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Certain low-level yet fundamental concepts, such as single-digit multiplication, can be demonstrated through conventional assessments, such as multiple-choice questions. Demonstrating understanding of a novel, for instance, may require an oral report or online presentation.

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