13/09/13

My first lesson as an on line teacher

To be honest my first time went pretty well. I could manage to do everything what I planned and I could interact quite smoothly with the people who were in Nivala. In Haapajärvi the mics didn´t work, they could hear me but I couldn´t hear them.They were anyway using the chat (which is also good tool).We reviewed verbs with the help of the music and some videos. I used Prezi but not the dynamic way (AnyMeeting won´t allowed me): share the screen will make the system too slow. I used normal word documents and shared the screen.
I used some polls too. 3 people on 15 said that it was difficult. 12 said it was fun.
Let´s keep this on positive way. Receiving good feedback is stimulating to continue and do better. I knew the students before hand. All of them studied italian with me from the past 3-5 years and their level it´s different. However I think that this new contest made them quite egual: all of them were experience the online learning. The course was longer than usual: 3 hours. Technologies take time. I tried to cover different kind of learners and I hope the learning went through.