Teaching Chinese online to beginners by Kathryn Murphy-Judy https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk What are the pros and cons of teaching beginning Chinese online? What do language teachers, in particular, need to consider and prepare to teach a language online to beginning students? en-us 2018-07-02 02:05:53 UTC 2018-07-05 18:37:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png pros: https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478531 you can teach anywhere; 
you don't need to travel;
you can reach the students anywhere; 
It's easier for class management; 
cons:
you must prepare a lot; 
Depends on device, technology,  and internet too much; 
It's not easy to build the teacher and student's relationship
it's hard to correct students' pronounciation
interaction
for practice hand writing


]]> 2018-07-05 13:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478531 Pros and cons: billyupeng https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478574 Pros: 
students don't need to be in classroom physically; students can possibly learn in their own time and pace; access to multimedia resources; can be very interesting; can be individually tailored
Cons: 
pronunciation; writing characters; usually no instant assistance; technical issues]]> 2018-07-05 13:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478574 https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478621 Overcome restrictions of time and space. Limited in building up a learning community without using an effective way as you suggested. Challenging to maintain students motivation due to challenges in building up basics like stoke order and pinyin and tones. Rely on tech. ]]> 2018-07-05 13:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478621 Pros and cons: https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478635 Pros:
Enrollment, easy to assess anywhere, easy to teacher to grade for some type of assignments. 
Cons:
Teaching might be not effective, may cost more time for teacher to grade assignment such as speaking; hard to have effective interaction, size of the class might be too large

]]> 2018-07-05 13:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478635 cons: https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478655 it is hard to build a strong community between students, especially when they feel struggled and frustrated.
 

]]> 2018-07-05 13:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478655 Cons https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478773 Convenient, time saving and money saving. Online courses will be cheaper than face-to-face courses.
Pros
Maybe a bigger class size for beginnings level course, no enough practice and interaction opportunities, may have lots of homework to do or prepare.]]> 2018-07-05 13:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478773 pros and cons for students and teachers https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478787 pt- larger audience, flexible location, easily share
ps- cheap flexible time and location
ct- engagement equipment issue
cs- motivation persistence feedback]]> 2018-07-05 13:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269478787 . https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269479065 2018-07-05 14:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269479065 https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269497784 2018-07-05 18:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kmurphy50/lwkjhpemujhk/wish/269497784