as your online teaching I'm sure that you want your online classes to simulate
as close as possible as if you were in person teaching your students well in
this video I'm going to show you how to create a zoom breakout room that will
allow you to do exactly just that you know so make sure to stick to the end of
the video is I'm going to throw in some free resources for your online teaching
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a video in my 22 years of teaching English learners I have seen how putting
students into partners or into groups really helps them to apply what they
have learned in class and to learn English in a more natural context so
without further ado let me show you how to create a zoom breakout room to
facilitate your students English learning so your first step is you're
going to log into zoom just as you normally would as if you were going to
host the meeting but instead of going straight into hosting a meeting you're
going to click on schedule a meeting and then on the left hand side you're going
to see a tab that says personal you're going to go all the way down and click
on settings and then you're going to see three tabs meeting recording telephone
make sure to click on meeting and then you're going to scroll down and you're
going to go to in meeting advanced once you're on the in meeting advanced tab
you're going to see the first section is breakout rooms what you're going to do
is you're going to highlight that tab and now your settings have been updated
and you're ready to host breakout rooms make sure though that the box next to
allow host assigned participants to breakout rooms when scheduling has been
highlighted and then click Save now that you have set up to enable breakout rooms
you will see it appear on the bottom part of your screen once you're ready to
start hosting a meeting and it will appear between the reaction button and
the record button you have several choices as what you do
in terms of whether you want to set up your breakout rooms before or after your
participants into the room you can even change the name of your breakout rooms
so that it's more appropriate for what you're doing your class you can call it
Group 1 group 2 or whatever you like or you can just keep it as break room 1 & 2
you can also assign your students once they're in the room to where you want
them to do and you have two options you can have it automatically assign the
students which I usually do it's a lot easier and then once they're in if you
want to make some changes you can swap them out for where you actually want
them to be I absolutely love reading your comments and in a recent video that
I made about online teaching with zoom I had a very sweet viewer called Portia
who mentioned that she was really excited about her first meeting with her
students I'm really curious how about you what are you using for your online
teaching please make sure to mention in the comment section below
then you can invite your students into the zoom meeting and once they start
entering into the room you can creat them and then you can start teaching
your lesson and as soon as you're ready to start the breakout session you can
then start assigning them into the different rooms okay class now that I've
read you the story and I showed you how I want you to do the activity and we
practiced a little bit together now I want you with your partner to discuss an
alternate ending to the story so what I'm going to do is I'm going to let a
sentence them appear on the screen you can copy it down in your notebooks if
you need a couple of minutes and then in a couple of seconds I'm going to thin
you out into a breakout room so that you and your partner can work together once
you assign your students to one of the breakout rooms they will receive a
notification on their end to join the room once they accept the invitation
they will be taken to the room automatically with their partner or
group members and you will be left alone in the main area in order to monitor
progress and provide feedback to the different groups click on one of the
breakout rooms to join one group at a time
why did dr. Hempel have to assign us his partner she always does this even in
class yeah I don't know all I know is that you look just as annoying on here
as you do in class oh yeah well your face looks like what I
would have drawn with my left hand well you know what you have so many gaps in
your teeth it looks like your tongue is involved oh that's real original
hi Amy and Beth I just wanted to check in and see how everything is going
are you both understanding the question okay yes yeah okay well just a reminder
you have five more minutes to complete the task I'm gonna jump out of here for
a second to check up on the other rooms and see how the other students are doing
just know that once I leave the room there is going to be a message that's
going to come up letting you know how many more seconds you have until we were
joined as a group okay all righty I'll see you in a bit
you're lucky she didn't hear us how did you do that you didn't know that you
could do that with zoom huh yep there's a new beta testing going on and it's
coming out soon in order to rejoin another group or to go back into the
main room you're going to click on the breakout room button and then you're
going to be able to leave the session and choose where you want to go and
another nice option is that you're able to broadcast a message to everyone in
the room letting them know how much time left they have to discuss the topic at
hand and then once that time is up you can click on a button that allows them
to cope you to close out the room and then automatically they will rejoin you
back into the main room and in the settings tab in the very beginning you
can adjust it and change how many seconds you want the countdown to be so
you may be wondering and asking yourself but dr. Heffel
what do i teach my students where can I get resources I've got you covered
so in the description below I will share some free resources where you can find
wonderful activities that can be adapted for the online classroom and also ones
that are already meant for online teaching and I've also thrown in this
book that I highly recommend I have used this in all my years of
teaching and it has 99 activities that you can do in the classroom and it
really transfers really well into the online teaching like your online
teaching find out in a minute I guess they proficient