https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk If you did live conferences or meeting with your kids, what were some of your tricks or tips? How did you use these? en-us 2020-07-07 03:22:02 UTC 2025-11-19 18:50:00 UTC hello@padlet.com kbearce0402 https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/650324600 I learned that the key was to keep it small. When I did the whole group, it was often just fun things. The content was taught in small groups and whole group was meant for connections. They looked forward to breakout rooms and games/]]> 2020-07-08 17:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/650324600 https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/651422173 I used conferences to keep up relationships with my students. It also helped motivate them to get on everyday. We would meet every morning for 10-20 miniutes depending on if we played a game. We would do our usual class greetings, share any news, and get a change to just be a class. It helped us all stay connected as one. ]]> 2020-07-10 00:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/651422173 https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/652137043 I offered virtual meetings using Google Hangouts to all of my students. I had some individual meetings and some small group meetings. Depending on the student, I met either daily, bi-weekly or weekly. I only had one student who never joined a meeting. I think the biggest reason for my success was my persistence and my communication with parents. If a student wasn't at our agreed upon meeting, I emailed the parent and the student with the link to the meeting at their scheduled time.]]> 2020-07-11 02:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/652137043 robin_miller1 https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/652634814 I had a student in the SEB program at my school who did not attend any of our whole class meetings. It was too overwhelming for him, but we still wanted to stay connected with him. The SPED team at my school came up with a plan, where we did a weekly rotation of individual meetings with him. For example, his SEB teacher met with him on Mondays, I met with him on Tuesdays, his Learning Center teacher met with him on Wednesdays, etc. at the specified time. Sabrina Mitchell, the autism behavioral specialist, came up with a slideshow that we all used for consistency and he earned a "train picture" each time he completed a task. We worked mostly on social skills and vocabulary during our meetings. ]]> 2020-07-12 14:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/652634814 christen_pruett https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/654443078 When we began online learning, I had a video conference each morning with all of my students. Then when we switched to Tuesday-Thursday learning I would have a conference on those mornings. I was sure to let my students and parents know I was available at ANY time to conference or hang out. During our conferences, I would check in with everyone to see how they were doing and if they had anything to share with us. Then I would ask if they had any questions about assignments that I could answer. At the end I gave a Would You Rather question and students would answer with their choice and why they chose that option. The conferences usually lasted around 15-30 minutes depending on how much we had to talk about. I felt it was a great way to stay connected and "see" each other. 

]]> 2020-07-14 18:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/654443078 https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/657835089 I found the best way to get kids to conference with me is if I sent them a Google Meet invite at the time of the meeting. I would email and ask them and their parents if they could attend. Having parents on board with the schedule was super important. Most of my students could not remember on their own. It was not a perfect system, I still had a lot of missed meetings, but then I could reschedule the same way. ]]> 2020-07-19 18:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/657835089 https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/662471013 I actually had more conferences with parents at IEP meetings that I did with students.  I offered them at least twice weekly however I hardly had anybody attend.  When I did have meetings with students I liked how I could see their screen if they were in presentation mode or they could see mine so we could work together in real time.  It was also nice to be able to present my screen at IEP meetings to parents and we could work collaboratively through he document.  I'm sure we probably saved some money on paper!

]]> 2020-07-25 20:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/662471013 https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/662674748 At my school admin set 1 hour slots per class hour, so that we didn't have random times when kids might need to be on a Math call and a Science call. I found that kids did not tend to got on a call period. I think they often assumed that all calls were going to be open to all but once I started inviting them and telling them it would be one-on-one calls they were more apt to request help. I found using the scheduling feature and template feature in gmail to be super helpful I built templates that would invite them, ask them to respond if they needed help with a topic. I built a template that reminded then of their time to go on and would schedule that and set a timer on my phone to remind me. Otherwise they could get on during their specified time for their hour. ]]> 2020-07-26 13:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ginny_blumhorst/348vplqywv2y8hvk/wish/662674748