Engaging the teachers with a live video call, lesson
planning strategies, and a hands -on experience with Skype settings
The main idea for
this workshop is to show the teachers how to conduct a Skype exchange session
in the classroom. The purpose is for students to experience how to communicate
in the language with their neighboring Asian counterparts or English-speaking teachers
on Skype.
To make it more
task-based and of a backward design approach, I incorporated activities like A
Cup of Conversation and Back to the Board into the introduction to lesson
planning and Skype settings. On top of that, with Jessica's help, we turned the
workshop into a natural English-speaking environment, with the participants working
in groups of three and asking her questions nonstop for three minutes.
Each stage of the
presentation is carefully designed and connected to each other. For example,
after practicing talking about the topic the participants chose, I then
proceeded to further that experience by having the participants interviewing an
English native speaker. When preparing for the workshop, I took it as lesson
planning, hoping to involve the teachers with both my ideas from teaching
practices and scaffolding tasks to produce the end result.
I promised the
event planner that I would volunteer to conduct a Skype session in her class.
The setups will also be ready then, including the laptop, an external webcam,
and microphone. Moreover, today we also
practiced how to make an appointment and decide on the topic, the date, and
other details. I tried to share everything about my know-how today and would
love to see more of the teachers get inspired and give it a try in their own
class.
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