We will be honest: this page is the result of the recent worldwide events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. At the #LSLPLegion, all our Leadership and our Advanced Researchers have mobilized to teach their courses remotely, both with online and digital tools and without them. We are grateful that we have a wealth of experience and the Legion itself to help us get ready for this contingency, but we also know that there are many language teachers, some even working with us, scrambling to find resources and activities. This page is, in a way, how we pay it forward. This will be a permanent hub in our website where our researchers (with the help of our LSLP Worldwide affiliates) will be sharing materials, video tutorials, links, etc. that others can use to teach remotely and design at some point their own virtual resources and courses.
A CAVEAT: This page will mostly focus on ideas for second-language teachers and teacher educators. We encourage others to suggest resources for us to review and consider for this page. E-mail us with your suggestions.
A CAVEAT: This page will mostly focus on ideas for second-language teachers and teacher educators. We encourage others to suggest resources for us to review and consider for this page. E-mail us with your suggestions.
SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNITIES
- The Online Teaching Collective is a community that surfaced on Facebook as a global response to the COVID-19. Although this one leans closer to college-level teaching, there are lots of interesting ideas in this group.
- The K-12 Online Learning Collective is another group that also addressed the COVID-19 situation. This group focuses on school teachers. Follow them on Facebook.
video tutorials
(NOTE: All compiled videos here will be curated and vetted by LSLP researchers for quality. We will also include our own materials)
We know teachers are concerned about the move to online environments. In this video, members of our affiliated Obnoxious Academics Consortium (OAC) will share their insights about dealing with these times as you transition online:
Here is another video (from 2016) where the OAC shared tidbits to help teachers adjust to that digital and multimodal turn (this one featuring new literacies scholar Dr. William Kist)
The next videos are a series of tutorials (in Spanish) by Dr. Diego Boada from Universidad del Norte. They're in Spanish and totally worth checking out considering Dr. Boada is one of our rising scholars in the area of educational technology! (NOTE: The first three videos are webinars for instructors; the next three are webinars for students)
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And below you will find a series of webinars that ASOCOPI, our Colombian ELT association, has put together to help our local teachers deal with teaching during the pandemic.
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Part of teaching remotely also involves taking good care of our bodies while at work. We'll also add video tutorials related to sitting and posturing when working at home. We'll start with this video tutorial by Dr. Megan Golden, Physical Therapist, and some simple tips to sit properly at home:
handouts, reports, lesson plans, and activities
(NOTE: All activities here will be curated and vetted by members of the LSLP Advanced Researchers Team for quality)
- REPORT: Thinking about Pedagogy in an Unfolding Pandemic (Education International and UNESCO)
- LIST OF RESOURCES: Several Colombian scholars are curating resources for language teachers. Click here to see the list.
- MUSIC IN CLASS: On the one hand, you can try the lyricstraining app. This app offers you the possibility to either click or type the missing lyrics. If you would like to try something else, we suggest this webinar about song and music in the classroom: