Some ideas for using break out rooms in Zoom- * Reading- send links to reading texts through the chat function. Groups can whole class read together, ask for volunteer readers or nominate readers for paragraphs/chunks of text. If students can’t navigate to the reading texts simply display it on screen for all to view. Use breakout rooms for pair reading practise. *Maximising the use of English- use breakout rooms after activities for pairs to check their answers together before feeding back to the whole group. *Collaboration - use break out rooms for students to work together on creating questions/checking answers/constructing sentences or short texts/formulating opinions and ideas. *Tutorials- use break out rooms for one to one meetings whilst the whole group are busily working on a task. *Voting-use the new Zoom function to create labelled rooms and ask students to vote by choosing a room! *Differentiation-pair students together by skill sets/levels/abilities within break out r
It was an absolute pleasure to be part of the Teachmeet at the NATECLA conference over the weekend to talk about the Virtual Field Trip that I made for my Entry 2 and 3 students. This is how I made it! First, create your own Bitmoji Avatar on your mobile phone/device. Unfortunately this cannot be done on a PC or laptop, you will need to download the Bitmoji app and build a mini you from there. Then search for Bitmoji extension within Google and add it to your Chrome browser. Now to make your trip! I used Google slides. Click background and search for the place/area you'd like to take your students. Once you have that in place you may want to put in additional items such as signs etc. Here's one of many tutorials available on YouTube to instruct you! I inserted various links to websites and YouTube videos throughout my trip using the insert , link function. I also added a link to a Padlet for students to answers questions on their travels. Now to add