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Online Teaching: Materials Design and Assessment
When: Saturday, May 23, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Where: Gangwon KOTESOL Zoom Room (Meeting ID will be sent out on event day at 12:00 p.m.)
With:
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Stafford Lumsden, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia 2:00-3:00 p.m.
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Stevan Johnson, Gangwon EPIK (English Program in Korea) 3:15-3:45 p.m.
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Lisa M. Hunsberger, Kyushu Sangyo University 4:00-4:45 p.m.
*Please note that, as usual, start / end times are somewhat flexible to allow for questions, discussion, etc.
Join Gangwon KOTESOL as we present an afternoon webinar event with presenters Stafford Lumsden, Lisa Hunsberger and Stevan Johnson. After Stafford and Lisa's presentations as invited speakers at KOTESOL's 2020 National Conference, Gangwon KOTESOL got in touch with them to see if they would be keen to spend some more time with us, and go into a bit more depth about online teaching. Particularly, there are two areas we feel are of interest: materials design, especially adapting existing materials for online classes, and assessment, the challenges of which are often exacerbated when you're teaching online.
See you all there!
Reece Randall, and the Gangwon Team
Delivering Face-to-face Tasks Online
Stafford Lumsden, University of Wollongong
Online instructors are positive in their views when it comes to the affordances offered by online teaching (Boliger & Wasilik, 2014). The ability to integrate images, and video, as well as having students collaborate in real-time are just some of those affordances. However, instructors face challenges in the online space replicating tasks that are often commonplace in the face-to-face classroom (Lumsden, 2018). Difficulty monitoring group work, and finding suitable alternatives to tasks that require realia and manipulatives are often cited by instructors as the most difficult to deal with.
This interactive workshop looks at seven tasks types that are often used in face-to-face lessons and models how they could be delivered in synchronous (live) online instructors Participants will need to have access to a camera and microphone and to connect to the workshop via Zoom. The workshop will be recorded.
Stafford Lumsden is a Technology Enhanced Learning & Education (TEL Ed.) Specialist at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. A long time member of KOTESOL he is also a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Medicine and Human Sciences at Macquarie University, NSW, Australia.
Integrating online or distance learning tools into face-to-face teaching
Stevan Johnson, Gangwon EPIK
In this presentation we will take a look at some of the common learning tools being utilized for distance learning as well as some edtech tools used to supplement traditional in-class methods using the available technology. The resources we will be discussing include but are not limited to, Google classroom, Padlet, Flipgrid, Classcraft, Kahoot, Floop, and Parlay. We will analyze these tools in terms of their ease of use and their applicability in a class setting, as well as discuss the use cases for different levels of education.
Stevan Johnson is an English teacher working in the EPIK program in Gangwon-do, South Korea. He has a double major in Philosophy and Psychology and deals with elementary and middle students incorporating approaches from various fields into his teaching methodology.
Design Ideas for Fun and Effective PowerPoint and Keynote Presentations for Distance Education and the Social Distancing Classroom
Lisa M. Hunsberger, Kyushu Sangyo University
Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote are powerful presentation tools that offer a variety of multimodal features —image, text, video, and sound, just to name a few. They can be used to create immersive, educational, and interactive activities, and they can be used by teachers both in classroom and distance education lessons. In this presentation, we will look at design ideas that EFL teachers can use to create fun and effective presentations for their classes. These ideas work well for both distance education and the social distancing classroom.
Lisa M. Hunsberger teaches full-time at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. She has an M.A. in Linguistics and has been teaching in the field of language and linguistics for almost 15 years. She has taught at universities in Jamaica, at a high school in France, and at every level in Japan, from kindergarten to university. She is consequently adept at adapting her work to varying levels. She regularly uses technology in the classroom, and she is an Apple Keynote enthusiast.
