teaching with Zoom Archives | Faculty of Education /edu/tag/teaching-with-zoom/ Reinventing education for a diverse, complex world. Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:29:17 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2020/07/favicon.png teaching with Zoom Archives | Faculty of Education /edu/tag/teaching-with-zoom/ 32 32 10 New Zoom Features to Enhance Your Teaching and Better Engage Your Students /edu/events/10-new-zoom-features-to-enhance-your-teaching-and-better-engage-your-students/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:09:14 +0000 /edu/?post_type=mec-events&p=34348 Looking for new ways to enhance your teaching and improve student engagement in your classes delivered on Zoom? Or are you just curious about Zoom updates made over the past year and the new innovations in store? Either way, this webinar is for you! Zoom made an estimated 1,000 updates to the popular video conference […]

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]]> Looking for new ways to enhance your teaching and improve student engagement in your classes delivered on Zoom? Or are you just curious about Zoom updates made over the past year and the new innovations in store? Either way, this webinar is for you!

Zoom made an estimated 1,000 updates to the popular video conference platform last year, most of which were behind-the-scenes technical improvements. In this webinar, Dr. Ron Owston separates out 10 of the most valuable new features for educators and describes how they may be applied to online teaching.

Key takeaways

Among the topics to be discussed are:
•    New ways to use auto transcription
•    Zoom apps: what they are and how to use them
•    Improvements made to the Zoom whiteboard
•    Enhanced polling, quiz and end-of-meeting survey features
•    Communicating with breakout rooms
•    What upgrades to expect in 2023

HOST:

Ron Owston

Dr. Ron Owston
Contact North | Contact Nord Research Associate

The founding director of 91ɫ’s Institute for Research in Learning Technologies, Dr. Owston is also a former Dean of the Faculty of Education and University Professor Emeritus at 91ɫ. He ranks among Google Scholar’s most-cited blended-learning researchers globally. Dr. Owston's webinars on effective use of Zoom for teaching as part of the Contact North I Contact Nord webinar series are lauded by educators around the world.

What participants say about Dr. Owston’s webinars:

  • “I've really learned a lot the last 6 or so months watching your Zoom webinars. My students have noticed and I share with you their kudos. I look forward to upping my Breakout Zoom Room game!”
  • “I really appreciate Ron’s effort and I need to watch this all over again to try the different possibilities.”
  • “Thank you very much Ron! This was a very informative session! I am excited to try to put together a class for my learners.”
  • “I wanted to comment on how useful these sessions have been — I have learned a lot from attending and/or watching them afterward. And, I include them in all my PD announcements to encourage faculty to attend.”
  • “Thank you, thank you, thank you — really wonderful!”

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]]> Professor Emeritus Ron Owston answers questions about teaching with Zoom during webinar /edu/2021/12/02/professor-emeritus-ron-owston-answers-questions-about-teaching-with-zoom-during-webinar/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:05:08 +0000 /edu/?p=30121 Faculty of Education Professor Emeritus Ron Owston will deliver his final free webinar for this term, and will open the floor to questions during the Dec. 8 event “Ask Ron Anything About Teaching with Zoom.”

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Faculty of Education Professor Emeritus Ron Owston will deliver his final free webinar for this term, and will open the floor to questions during the Dec. 8 event “Ask Ron Anything About Teaching with Zoom.”

Faculty of Education Professor Emeritus Ron Owston
Professor Ron Owston

The webinar will run from 10 to 11 a.m., and Owston will answer questions pre-submitted by registered participants, and follow by answering questions raised during the live event as time permits.

“I go out on a limb with this one, but I did it a year ago and it’s fun,” said Owston, who has organized and offered a variety of free webinars that focus on teaching with Zoom.

Owston is Contact North | Contact Nord’s research associate and leader of the group’s successful Zoom webinar series. Common topics include:

  • Create engaging breakout room sessions
  • Design successful ice-breaking activities
  • Use a second camera or stream mobile phone video to your class
  • Share videos, applications, and whiteboards
  • Take class attendance
  • Get poll reports
  • Set up a secure class meeting

For more details and to register, go .

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