Topic 4 Rounding up - ending a course

1. Rounding up and
Finishing off

2. Ideas for Finishing Activities
Needs:
Needs:
digital
Voice board
camera,
or
podcasting
Farewell Photo email,
site Message Gallery Slideshare
Needs: Needs:
Parting
Course Awards web,
site gifts email

3. Parting Gifts: poems, links, recipes, …..
• http://armorgames.c
om/play/6137/crush-
the-castle-2/
‘There are holes in the sky
where the rain gets in,
but they’re ever so small,
that’s why rain is thin.’
Spike Milligan

4. Photo gallery
• Post a photo of something relevant to the course, or someone
• Post a brief explanation
• Tutor puts all the images in one presentation & adds captions:
names and key words
Final project
(Bill Student )
hours of fun!
• Idea from ‘Teaching Online’, Hockly & Clanfield, 2010

5. Farewell Message
• Record a message saying ’goodbye’ to the group
• Post it to a voice board
• Once everyone has left & listened to the messages, tutor
rounds off with a closing email
Examples:
Congratulations on finishing the course
One memorable task
Highlight of the course
• Idea from ‘Teaching Online’, Hockly & Clanfield, 2010

6. Course Awards
• Group comes up with a list of ‘Course Awards’ - must be same
number as participants
Examples:
• Fastest poster
• Funniest comment
• Most thought-provoking question
• Best avatar
• Longest post
• Mr/Ms Tech Savvy
• Best organised
• Most visual person
• Most useful advice
• Most technically improved
• Everyone posts an award from the list on a message board of names
until everyone has one.
Brought to my attention by Nikky Salmon

7. Beyond the course:

8. Online discussion groups
1. “Webheads is a world-wide, cross-cultural, and vibrant online-
community of educators with an open enrollment for anyone who
wants to join”
Practising teachers who discuss online teaching & learning. Links to
lesson ideas, conferences, blogs…
http://webheadsinaction.org/about
2. SEETA (South Eastern Europe Teachers Association)
A site with a major interest in teaching online. Blogs, webinars
on a variety of topics eg. Adapting your coursebook with
technology, teaching with online digital games ….
http://www.seeta.eu

9. Further online training
EVO free courses: (Electronic Village Online)
2012 sessions included a variety of practical topics: moodle for
teachers, digital tools with a purpose in the classroom,
podcasting for the EFL classroom, creating and manipulating
audio
You can also access past sessions
Live sessions take place in January - February.
Register in January
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/EVO+Previous+Sessions

10. Online Synchronous
Conferences
A regular one is the IATEFL conference.
It takes place in a different UK city each year
Liverpool, April 2013
• Major presentations are streamed with forums for discussions
and much more
• http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012

11. Blogging and Micro-blogging
Many blogs to select from:
1. We’ve already been referred to some of Nicky Hockly’s blogs.
Thought-provoking and practical. Here’s one on using video
http://www.emoderationskills.com/?p=97
2. Here’s one for teacher trainers
http://elteachertrainer.com/category/teacher-training-2/
Micro-blogging
Twitter Follow people involved in the field
Edmodo Twitter for Education http://www.edmodo.com
An Edmodo ‘class’ can be set up.

12. ePortfolios
• This final project will form the start of our own eportfolios
• It is summative assessment at the end of our course, but will
also stimulate ongoing development of our skills as e-
moderators.