Mentimeter: Perfect Your Online Teaching Presence

What you'll learn
Identify the key features of Mentimeter for online teaching activities.
Apply sound instructional design theory to create highly effective online teaching sessions.
Use Presentation software design principles (e.g. PowerPoint and Google Slides) and apply them to the Mentimeter environment.
Prepare the virtual classroom/ video conference environment (e.g. Zoom) for effective Mentimeter presentations.
Plan the screen sharing set-up for the presenter and audience roles.
Requirements
The course is for anyone who has competent digital literacy skills.
Description
Do you want your online teaching to excite your learners and enable you to stand out from the crowd? This course will enable you to transform your online teaching capabilities using Mentimeter as the platform. The course can be used in conjunction with any virtual classroom or web conferring tool. The course will feature Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, but the principles from each of these can be applied to any of your preferences.The course is not just about tools and technology, it's about best practices in instructional design. I will guide you through important learning and teaching principles and activity planning that you can easily apply to all of your live online teaching sessions. The course is very practical, it will enable you to apply solid design principles to presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint) to plan, organize and structure your Mentimeter sessions. You will be given downloadable templates that you can customize for your own sessions.The course will guide you to...

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