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Writing Workshops for Students

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Using NVivo for Data Analysis by Dr Inas Almusallem

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Trial and Error: My PhD Journey - Dr Hanaa Ayoub

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Trial and Error: My PhD Journey - Dr Hanaa Ayoub

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Dr Hanaa Ayoub provided a webinar in which she discussed her journey as an EJSP student and gave some important advice for those undertaking a PhD for promotion.

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Based on the most recent AIC survey, students would like to attend the following workshops:

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The Computational Modelling of Arabic Intonation

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The Computational Modelling of Arabic Intonation

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Dr. Muhammad Alzaidi

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Improving EFL students' academic writing: Can technology be the solution? Webinar

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Improving EFL students' academic writing: Can technology be the solution? Webinar

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Blackboard has many products and services. Let us help you find the information you need.

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Blackboard Guide for Group Assignments (1)

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https://twitter.com/academic_improv

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academicimprov@ksu.edu.sa

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5 Principles for Meaningful Online Learning

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Five Principles for Meaningful Online Learning

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Distance Learning Strategies and Solutions

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Distance Learning Strategies and Solutions

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Distance Education Strategies & Solutions: Flipped Learning in Remote Times

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د. جينيفر مايثس، الرئيس التنفيذي لمنظمة اتحاد التعليم الإلكتروني تتحدث عن تجربة التعليم الإلكتروني

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Using Technology to Support Meaningful Online Instructional Strategies

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A Methodological Inconsistency

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Poetry and Art: A Case Study of Saudi Students Seminar by Dr Haifa Almufayrij

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Poetry and Art: A Case Study of Saudi Students Seminar by Dr Haifa Almufayrij

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The Academic Improvement Committee Bulletin presents an interactive and easily accessible summary of the events held by the committee over the semester. Additionally, it provides an online reference and resource page for faculty with tips and advice on Blackboard tools and E-Learning and shares their experiences about teaching, training, and research.
We hope you find this page useful in your journey as a faculty member in the Department of English Language and Literature at KSU.

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Students’ responses on Twitter regarding workshops they would like to attend: 

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Toni Morrison Critical Reading Workshops

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Toni Morrison Critical Reading Workshops

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First Workshop: Playing in the Dark

By: Dr Amjad Alshalan

Dates: (28/9/2020 and 30/9/2020)

Student Attendance: 49

The workshop consisted of:

·Meticulous reading of a literary text

·Examination of text structure

·An evaluation of a critical article on the same text

·Discussion of the main elements

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Previous Critical Reading Workshops

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Innovation and Implementing E-Learning

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الجلسة الاولى ELI 2011

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Analyzing Social Media

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Dr Aljohara Almutarie-Analyzing Social Media Content-Oct 2020

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Analyzing Social Web Texts using Mozdeh

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Is it really Impossible to Teach Grammar to L2 Learners of English?

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Is it really Impossible to Teach Grammar to L2 Learners of English?

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This is a playlist for Microsoft Teams Tutorials for Teachers. The Microsoft Teams Tutorial for Teachers playlist will provide educators with quick tutorials...

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This challenging time provides an opportunity for students to work on real-world problems they see every day.

Amid a pandemic, educators are trying to figure out how to make sure that kids are socially in tune, emotionally intact, and cognitively engaged. Moreover, we're all attempting to figure out how to do this across a plethora of mediums, including computer screens, video cameras streaming into classrooms, and engaging students face-to-face albeit across shields, masks, and plexiglass.

Still, there is an opportunity here to give students a chance to discuss the challenges of their own environment, the barrage of news they face daily, and the core content they need for long-term success. One of the best options to meet these demands is for students to engage in rigorous problem- or project-based learning (PBL)-an approach that ensures students develop high rigor and experience high relevance by solving problems or completing tasks in a remote or face-to-face environment.

3 Shifts to Consider When Designing Your Next Project
Checklist for ensuring rigor in PBL:
1. Focus on challenge: Students need challenging learning experiences and expectations every day. The best way to ensure challenge is to make sure that projects are underpinned with rigor. I define rigor as the equal intensity and integration of defining, relating, and applying core facts and skills in and across multiple situations. PBL is ideal for meeting these requirements because of the way projects are sequenced. Projects begin with an application-based task or question, and then students define and relate core facts and skills to answer the initial question. In this way, students learn how to define and describe, relate, and apply knowledge through a project-based question or task.
Checklist for remote learning:

Provide students with a high level of reading, writing, and talking tasks. When students are reading, writing, and talking, they're having to think about core content knowledge. Try to avoid cutting, pasting, and scrolling tasks, which are not usually cognitively demanding.

Provide students with a challenging problem or question that involves multiple contexts or situations. When students are shown that the problem or question may occur in multiple situations, they have a higher probability of applying their knowledge.

Have students preview a challenging question or task before class, and then have them post what they already know and specific questions they have about the question or task.

Start each lesson with a brief review of the challenging question or task, and ask students to post on the chat how the upcoming lesson will support them in answering the question.

2. Focus on clarity: One of the most important factors to help students learn core content, give and receive accurate feedback, and own their own learning is to have a high level of clarity of core content expectations as compared with the context of the problem or task. When students are clear on their own prior knowledge relative to what is being taught, there's a higher probability that they will focus on their learning, listen to the teacher and peers, and retain new knowledge. Therefore, student clarity of learning is a high leverage strategy for teachers to focus on. Ensuring clarity is extremely hard in the classroom, but there are a few strategies that can be helpful in moving the needle for kids.
Checklist for clarity:
For more information on this point, check out John Hattie's Visible Learning, Graham Nuthall's The Hidden Lives of Learners, and Derek Alexander Muller's doctoral dissertation, " Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education."
Checklist for remote learning:

Students use work samples of different quality to build evaluation tools. Provide students with successful examples of meeting your expectations for learning core content, and then ask them to build a rubric that indicates what those samples possess that makes them ideal.

Students use protocols to discuss ways to give feedback using work samples and evaluation tools. Students need to be specifically taught how to give each other feedback. One suggestion is to use protocols such as critical friends and tuning protocols as a structured way to give and receive feedback. It's also critically important that students use work samples and rubrics when offering feedback, so that those receiving feedback can see concrete examples of expectations and can evaluate current gaps in performance.

Post work samples on your LMS, and have students work in pairs to rank the work samples, write down their rationale for the work samples, and build a rubric.

Film a breakout room conducting a critical friend or tuning protocol, and ask all students to watch the film and then discuss as a class the purpose for protocols and the strategies the students used to give and receive feedback.

Checklist for clarity:
3. Develop a learning culture: Developing a student's capacity to appraise their current performance relative to core expectations and devise and implement strategies to improve is ranked as one of the most impactful strategies for improving student learning. When students own their own learning, they significantly improve. During PBL, teachers can integrate specific strategies that build a culture of student ownership over time.
Checklist for remote learning:

Students follow daily routines to ensure that they know the goals of learning, their current performance, and next steps, and share their results in small groups. Daily reflective exercises are critical for students to focus on their learning versus completing tasks.

Change perspectives, scenarios or contexts, and tasks on students, and then discuss those changes with the class. Students need to evaluate different perspectives of a problem and adjust to changes to real-world challenges they are working to address. These can be delivered by sending a letter stating the changes; engaging in protocols such as four corners; changing the rubric; or giving new reading, writing, and talking tasks.

Start students in breakout rooms each day to answer three questions: Where am I going in my learning? Where am I now in my learning? And what's next in my learning?

Send students updates on their problems or projects via email or group chat, and then set up times for group meetings to discuss changes and steps they will take to handle such changes.

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3 Keys to Making Project-Based Learning Work During Distance Learning

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Essential Online Teaching Methods

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Traditional forms of teaching around the world are changing rapidly with the advancement of technology. Even in physical classrooms, technology has taken on a bigger role, changing how lessons are delivered and received.

While there are numerous teaching methods, most of the traditional methods used in class can be applied equally efficiently online. However the teaching method you select will change based on your teaching philosophy, objectives, subject area, and classroom demographics.

In this post, we'll list down x effective online teaching methods that'll help simplify the delivery of your virtual lessons.

Online Teaching Methods

Listed below are some of the most effective methods of online teaching.

Presentations

Presentations, like in the physical classroom, are one of the most common methods of online teaching. This technique helps make a more significant impact on students - most of whom are visual learners - than a teacher simply relaying information out of a textbook.

Most importantly, presentations allow you to incorporate visuals (images, GIFs, videos, etc.) which makes it easier to deliver and comprehend complex information and data while making the lesson more engaging. Plus you can also share your presentation with the students after the lesson for revision and studying.

Presentation Template (Click on the template to edit it online)

Here are a few presentation tools to get started with

Online, presentations are more effective when delivered over video conferencing with a tool like Zoom or Google Meet.
Jazz Up Your Presentation: 6 Ways to Put an End to Ugly Charts and Graphs
Online Whiteboard

Online whiteboards have risen as a popular choice to virtually emulate the in-person classroom experience shared between teachers and students. They offer an infinite canvas, shape libraries to create different diagrams and charts, pre-made templates, sketching, typing, image import options, etc.

Unlike the traditional whiteboards, they also let you digitize the content created, hence allowing you to re-share them and refer to them at a later time. You can also collaborate with students on the same canvas in real-time which paves the way to

Carry out assignments

Brainstorm around lessons

Mind mapping

Do interactive exercises such as quizzes

Review homework and leave feedback

Find out more about how to successfully use an online whiteboard for teaching.

Live Online Classes

Technology has made it straightforward to deliver lectures online even if you are not in the same room as the students, replicating many of the elements of face-to-face interaction.

Using video conferencing tools you can connect and communicate with students across the globe to deliver lessons. Incorporating an online whiteboard, you can make the classes even more engaging.

Lectures tend to put students in a passive role. Therefore to keep students engaged throughout the class online;

Be prepared by outlining the content of the lesson

Ask questions during and after the lesson and leave time for students to answer

Carry out discussions around the topic and encourage students to participate actively

Make use of graphic organizers, images, posters, videos, visuals, etc.

Break down the main topic into sub-parts which will allow you to deliver the lecture in smaller chunks making it more effective in terms of keeping the students focused and engaged

Set clear guidelines for online class etiquette for students to maintain

Pre-Recorded Video Lectures

The benefit of pre-recorded lectures, as opposed to the live ones, is that the former allows the students to learn at their own pace at any time without the presence of the teacher. It also gives them material to go over during revision.

The teacher or instructor, on the other hand, can use the videos to avoid repetitive teaching between different classes.

To create effective pre-recorded lectures;

Start with a script. Outline the talking points and what should go on each slide.

Practice as necessary. Unless you are confident enough to do it in one go, rehearse what you will be saying prior to recording.

Keep it short. If the video is longer than 20 minutes, consider breaking it up into smaller videos. This will not only come in handy when uploading them online but in case you need to replace the content with new information, it'll be easier to re-do a few minutes video than an hour-long one.

Have everything ready before recording. Make sure that you are in a place devoid of distracting noises and backgrounds, and that your script and props are in place.

If you are recording your screen, make sure to have closed unnecessary tabs and apps that may send you notifications.

Maintain good eye contact with the camera and a tone you would use in a normal one-on-one conversation

Flipped Classroom

The flipped classroom has become one of the most popular teaching methods in education during the past few years.

It entails a strategy opposite to the traditional class format; here the students are required to review class material prior to the actual lesson, hence reserving actual in-class time to put what they have learned into test with teacher-guided activities such as debates, problem-solving, in-depth discussions, quizzes, etc.

Videos have become a core element in the flipped classroom model. While many teachers create videos of their own, some also use videos created by other teachers. Video-sharing platforms such as YouTube can be utilized to share these among students.

Some of the other effective techniques for the flipped classroom include,

Online quizzes - help students self-regulate what they have learnt and further improve their comprehension of the subject

Polls - help students reflect and analyze what they have learned by polling their own choices

Infographics - increase student engagement and enhances memory

Mind maps or word clouds - allow students to brainstorm around topic areas and develop their thinking skills

Game-Based Teaching

Game-based learning is a popular technique used to improve student engagement and retain attention. This approach helps reduce student anxiety and increase their involvement, especially when teaching complex concepts. It also paves the way for weaker students to develop their competences by interacting actively with their classmates.

And in online teaching, games help close the gaps in the interaction between face-to-face learning and online learning. Depending on the game you select, here are a few tips to keep in mind when carrying it out online,

Ensure that all students in the virtual classroom have access to the same set of data. You can share your screen or communicate them to your audience using a video conferencing tool

Use the chat option to take down concerns and questions of students and clarify and you can answer them live

Allow students time to reflect their answers and discuss them with other group members by breaking down the game into subsequent periods

Allow students to carry out discussions using chat platforms such as WhatsApp, Skype, Slack, Facebook, Zoom breakout rooms, etc.

Class Blog

A blog can be a great place for students to share what they have learned in the form of in-depth articles. Students can work on blog posts individually or in groups. It's a great strategy to improve students' research skills and encourage them to explore self-learning.

The teacher can also use the blog as a platform to share learning material for the lessons.

Live Chatting

Live chatting is another great way to replicate the real-time discussions that take place in the classroom. Platforms such as Slack, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, etc. allow students and teachers to communicate and brainstorm around lessons. The chat itself will provide the students with information for revising before exams or assignments.

Make sure to set clear guidelines to ensure that all students get an equal chance to communicate their ideas and pose their questions.

Discussion Boards and Forums

These tools provide students the space to share what they have learned or what they want to know more about with others in the classroom including the teacher.

You can maintain different discussion boards for individual lesson topics, so it'll be more organized. You can create one easily with an online visual workspace like Creately and share it with all students with one public edit link giving everyone quick access.

You can also create separate Slack channels, Facebook groups, or Whatsapp groups for forum discussions.

Any Other Online Teaching Method?

Online teaching has paved the way for new models of teaching and learning. With the world-wide school closure caused by COVID-19, the process only has accelerated. As students and teachers explore new ways to deliver and receive lessons virtually, we hope these techniques will help you explore something new and do it more effectively.

What other online teaching methods have you incorporated into your virtual classroom? Let us know in the comments section below.

This post is a part of Creately's series on remote teaching. More resources you would find useful include,
7 Effective Remote Teaching Best Practices Essential Remote Teaching Tools for Conducting Effective Online Lessons The Ultimate List of Visual Teaching Strategies The Ultimate List of Graphic Organizers for Teachers and Students The Easy Guide to Effectively Using Thinking Maps The Ultimate List of Visual Creative Thinking Techniques The Ultimate Guide to Visual Note-Taking for Students and Teachers

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