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Welcome to TOM Teaching Online Masterclass, a video course designed to help educators adapt quickly to online teaching.

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How is Online Teaching Different?

Teaching online is markedly different from teaching face to face, but don't worry. Even if you have begun using blended or flipped classes or if it's all new, this series will guide you through how to extract the most from an online learning environment for both you and your students.

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The Importance of Mindset in Online Teaching

It's important to have the right mindset to develop and succeed in blended and online learning environments. Cultivate a mindset that ensures success in this new way of educating students.

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How to Create a Well Structured Instructional Video

Recent developments have meant big changes in video production. The industry has had to adapt and so can you!

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How to Use Peer Competition in your Online Teaching

Social strategies that focus on peer competition for esteem and entrepreneurial studies.

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What is a Community of Practice in Education?

A community of practice has three essential components; domain, community and practice. These are needed to build collaboration.

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How to Make Live Online Classes More Inclusive

To make sure that online classes are more inclusive, educators need to provide differentiation for students.

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Using Video Feedback for Formative Assessment Online

Using blended learning to save time and provide feedback via video rather than traditional mark-up of documents.

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How to Plan and Facilitate Discussions in Online Classes

Viewers will learn how and why online discussions should be used in K-12 online learning. Understand what effective discussions strategies are, learn tips and tricks on how to successfully facilitate these with your students. Presented by Educator Kwame Daniels.

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How to Increase the Production Value of your Instructional Videos

At home we don't have access to studio grade lights, camera, and sound equipment, but there are small things that we can do to make our videos look and sound better.

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When Learning Goes Online

In the year 2020 learning changed forever, initially Teachers had to learn on the fly, with very few having the pedagogical training in how to teach effectively online. Hybrid Learning is now here to stay, find out how to implement the best practices in your online classes today.

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How to use Reflective Practices in Online Classes

Reflecting on one's actions unlocks our ability to engage in a process of continuous learning. Viewers will learn how to, and why teachers should use reflective practice in online teaching and learning. Presented by Educator Kwame Daniels.

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How to Keep Students Engaged in Online Classes

To keep students engaged during live lessons, we need to flip things. We need to get the students going off and working independently to actually be accountable and manage their work before coming back and sharing their progress.

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Top Tips for Teaching Online & Blended Classes

Educators can design learning and assessment tasks that support learners' choice, so all students can demonstrate their abilities.

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Teacher as the Facilitator in Online Teaching

Even more than the physical classroom, online and blended learning environments require educators to shift into the role of a facilitator. This means they are talking less, listening more and view themselves as guides to students' personal learning.

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Using Warmer Questions to Increase Student Engagement Online

One of the core strategies to engage students in online learning is to start with a warm up question. Have a question waiting for them that gets them talking.

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Using Retrieval Practice to Improve Online Teaching

Ask students to provide as much information they can remember from the last week or months' learning on a piece of paper.

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Multimedia Cognitive Load Theory for Teachers

One of the core cognitive strategies that is really important is called 'Multimedia Cognitive Load Theory'. This theory could inform your teaching to produce better results.

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What Teachers Need to Know About Cognition

The three main things you need to know about cognition to help with blended and online learning. Switch context to improve student attention.

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How to Choose Video for the Classroom

With over 800 Million videos on Youtube alone, choosing the right educational content for your students can be daunting. Learn about what to look for when choosing videos that aid learning and retention.

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Positive Behaviour Management Strategies for Online Teaching

Here are three positive management behavior techniques that you should use in your online classes.

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How Young People Relate to Media

Educator Tara Walsh shares research on how post-millenials engage with media, and how by embracing the use of media in online classes, teachers can harness it to engage students in their learning.

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How to Make Communities of Practice Work

Educator Marissa Aroy explains what are the elements that make communities of practice work, what is a good COP, and why teachers should join them.

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How to Teach to Connect Online

Educator Tara Walsh explains techniques on how to create a community online which in turn fosters a sense of connection in online classes.

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How to Increase Your Students' Autonomy in Online Teaching

Learn why educators should increase a student’s autonomy and agency and how to facilitate and promote it in online learning environments. Presented by Educator and Emmy Award winner Marissa Aroy.

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How to Incorporate Peer Feedback Online

Peer feedback provides students opportunities to learn from each other. Educator Marissa Aroy explains why and how to incorporate peer feedback in online teaching and learning.

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How to Give Feedback when Teaching Online

Viewers will learn why feedback is important when learning goes online. Learn ways to do this, thus guiding students towards positive learning outcomes. Presented by Educator and Emmy Award winner Marissa Aroy.

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How to Develop Your Online Teacher Presence

Viewers will learn about the important role teacher presence has in motivating and engaging learners, and learn ways to increase teacher presence when learning goes online. Presented by Marissa Aroy, Educator and Emmy Award winner.

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Visualising Content for Memorable Online Teaching

For an educator to create memorable online teaching, it's all about the ability to capture a message and create a story around either photographs, video, or some sort of iconography.

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How to Promote Student-To-Student Interactions in Online Classes

Educators talking to a group of students on mute will only get you so far. Viewers will learn how and why educators can promote student to student interactions in online classes. Presented by Educator Kwame Daniels.

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How to Plan and Facilitate Brainstorming Online

Viewers will learn why and how they can facilitate brainstorming in online learning environments. Presented by Educator and Emmy award winner, Marissa Aroy.

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How to Create Presentations to Reduce Cognitive Load

Viewers will learn how to create engaging presentations using the principles of cognitive load theory of multimedia to reduce cognitive load and to aid retention and learning. Presented by Educator Kwame Daniels.

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How to Create Instructional Videos to Reduce Cognitive Load

Learn how to create instructional videos using the principles of cognitive load theory of multimedia to reduce the cognitive load and to aid retention and learning. Presented by Educator Tara Walsh.

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What is Cognitive Load Theory of Multimedia?

During learning, information is held in your working memory until it has been processed to pass into your long-term memory. This is Cognitive Load Theory; learn about the cognitive load theory of multimedia and understand its importance in online teaching and learning. Presented by Educator Tara Walsh.

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Is Universal Design for Learning Effective?

Learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL), whether it's an effective framework when learning goes online and the practical application of UDL for online learning environments. Presented by Educator Kwame Daniels.

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How to Increase Student Learning

Learn how to create online learning experiences to engage learners by understanding what motivates them; and how educators can enhance teaching and learning in online learning environments. Presented by Educator and Emmy Award winner Marissa Aroy.

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Building Relationships with your Students Online

My top tips for educators to build relationships with students in a blended and online teaching environment is to connect with the student's limbic brain. This is their emotional and memory control center.

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Parent - Teacher Strategies for Online Learning

Educators can support families and digitally immersed learning environments in a variety of ways.

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Helping Students Find Balance When Learning Goes Online

It's really important for students to be able to manage their technology use, simply because it's a pressing conversation that often comes up.

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Using Multimedia and Open Education Resources

Finding and using multimedia and open educational resources can transform your teaching and very importantly, save you precious preparation time.

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Choosing the Right Technology for Online Teaching

What you need to keep in mind if you're choosing technology for your school or learning organization.

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Frameworks for Selecting Technology for Online Teaching

Frameworks to choose the right technology, whether it be one element of your ecosystem or to evaluate your ecosystem as a whole, and the learning experience from utilizing that technology.

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How to Use Social Presence Cues in Your Online Teaching

Research has found that using social presence cues increase students' motivation and can improve learning in both blended and online learning environments.

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How to Engage, Retain and Entertain with Instructional Video

Being able to engage, retain and also entertain are three pillars that make a great video. Interactivity is a great way to engage your learners.

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How to Plan and Facilitate Online Problem-Based Learning Tasks

Viewers will learn how problem based learning approaches can positively affect educational outcomes. Also learn how to design problem based learning tasks for online learning that enhances student outcomes. Presented by Educator Kwame Daniels.

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Facing the Challenge of Inclusivity in Online Teaching

Discover how to cultivate an inclusive pedagogy which is focused on including all students and learning.

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Promo for Teaching Online Masterclass Series 2

Welcome to TOM, the 'Teaching Online Masterclass', Series 2 - a free video course designed to help educators adapt quickly to online teaching. Based on academic research, the series is packed full of practical tips and guidance. TOM will help teachers understand the difference between teaching in a classroom and in a virtual environment, and implementing strategies of best practice online.

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Is Technology Dangerous to our Mental Health?

Parents and educators are concerned about young people's mental wellbeing, but it's not as bad as we think.

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How to use Retrieval Practice in Online Classes

Viewers will learn why, and how to use retrieval practice in online teaching and learning; recalling information forces us to pull our knowledge “out” and examine what we know. Presented by Educator Kwame Daniels.

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Characteristics for Success in Online Learning

What characteristics do successful K-12 students exhibit in online learning environments?

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Engaging Communication in Instructional Videos

Educators will find these tips and tricks essential to make online videos as engaging as possible.

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How to Use Socratic Circles in Your Online Teaching

Using a Socratic circle or a student led discussion to build social skills. An inner circle that discusses a topic and an outer circle analyzes and assesses the discussion that takes place.

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How to Create Inclusive Online & Blended Classes

Create inclusive, online and blended classes which allow for multiple means of representation, expression and engagement. Help to identify if you want technology to help differentiate, personalise or individualise the learning.

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Case Study: The Universal Design for Learning in Action

When using UDL for the first time educators need to consider whether their lesson is accessible to all learners in the classroom and if it is, what to do to make it even more so.

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Enhancing Accessibility with Instructional Video

Discover strategies that increase accessibility through instructional videos, which will give you the flexibility of online learning and a blended approach.

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Priorities for Teacher Professional Development

If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught the education community anything, it's that many teachers in schools lack the knowhow and resources they need to support online learning. But it's sure to play a bigger role in the years to come.

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Is Online Teaching Effective?

Recent studies confirm that online learning is effective in the K-12 education space. Both the International Association for K12 Online Learning and the World Economic Forum agree and here's what the research says.

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How to Use Universal Design for Learning to Build Online Learning Activities

Consider how to use technology and UDL to amplify pedagogical practices that encourage student engagement through demonstrations of learning.

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Three Tips for Making Online Teaching a Success

Making online and blended learning a success, is an opportunity to experience and grow with your students. Learn together in this new educational space and create an exciting holistic learning experience.

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Elements of Effective Online Courses

When designing a unit of work or curriculum for online learning courses, what should K-12 educators think about? Effective courses incorporate intentional design that involves careful planning, clear expectations and concrete deadlines with some flexibility.

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Using the Buddy System in Online Teaching

A great strategy for students to submit work on time and to really put in the effort is through a Buddy System, where students can support and engage with one another to empower each other to create meaningful work that goes beyond a tick box exercise.

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How to Use Universal Design for Learning to Design Curriculum

Use the UDL framework to create lessons that are going to reduce, minimise or eradicate any potential learning barriers that students might encounter.

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Preparing Students for Success in Online Teaching and Learning

When making the change to blended and online classes, educators need to be increasingly conscious of the importance of the human elements and develop opportunities to break out into small groups, to talk and collaborate.

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Educator Emotional Well-Being in Online Teaching

Preparing for and hosting online learning can be a very intense experience. Teach in a blended and online learning environment while taking care of your own emotional wellbeing and mental health.

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Best Practice for Teaching Live Online Classes

When teaching live classes, ensure you're comfortable; a good chair with back support, ensuring your eyes are level with the screen you are looking at.

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How to Use Universal Design for Learning to Design Lessons

UDL should be used to design online learning activities because teachers need to create environments where all students feel seen, heard and valued.

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Using Interactive Video to Improve Student Engagement Online

One of the core engagement strategies for online learning is interactivity in videos. The job's not merely done by creating the video, you have to make it interactive and get students to apply that information.

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Using Universal Design for Learning Across the Curriculum

Educators need to consider whether their assessments and assignments are reflective of the learning targets and success criteria that they've set up for students.

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Three Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement Online

The behavioral strategies that really focus on the student choice factor. Being able to give a student an opportunity to go above and beyond by figuring out what medium most inspires them.

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Preparing for Blended Teaching

Get students ready for blended classes by weaving online blended tasks into the tapestry we build throughout the year so that students acquire the fundamental digital and independent skills that will make them incredibly employable.

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Preparing for Teaching Classes Online

Educators need to be role models to prepare students for online classes. It's difficult being on camera, but it's important we try it ourselves.

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Segmenting in Online Teaching

Segmenting is the chunking of information, allowing learners to engage with smaller pieces of information, as well as to give them control of the flow of information.

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Adapting your Teaching Techniques for Online Classes

Good classroom instruction requires planning and this is also true for online teaching.

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Essentials for Online Teacher Communication

Discover strategies to help overcome pitfalls of communicating with students online. Don't overlook the essential motive for communication, which is to build trust and relationships.

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Communities of Practice Versus Professional Learning Networks

How to build out a professional learning network during the course of your teaching career.

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Student Collaboration and Group Work Online

Try randomly grouping your students to get them collaborating with with one another in ways that they may not normally do.

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Adapting your Face to Face Pedagogy for Teaching Online.

Transfer and modify many of the strategies used for student engagement in a face to face classroom across to an online learning environment, either synchronous or asynchronous.

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Three Things to Know About Behaviour for Blended and Online Learning

Here are three things about behavior you need to know for blended and online learning. Now thing number one is this. We cannot multitask no human being can, it's not a skill issue. It's a hardware issue in the brain.

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How to Build a Professional Learning Network

Educators can build out your professional learning network on social media platforms like Twitter.

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How to use Think-Pair-Share in your Online Teaching

The simple strategy to develop social skills in the class known as 'Think, Pair, Share'.

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What is the Universal Design for Learning?

UDL is a way of educating which many teachers do naturally without knowing it. Understand the basic principles of UDL to help you unlock the potential to plan and implement teaching more effectively.

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Finding Balance When Teaching Goes Online

It is important to manage your technology use because we rely on it all the time.

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Feedback and Assessment in Online Teaching

Think about how important feedback and assessment are to the learning process and educators can integrate technology into the process such as how it can support an immediate feedback mechanism.

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