Teaching Remotely Can Be A Chess Game …

Luckily, there’s Innovation!

Pawn to queen 3… Knight to bishop 3… Ugh!

I don’t know what metaphor best describes testing online, “arms race” or “chess match”. The frog in the slowly boiling water is another metaphor for this, but I’ll get to that later.

My young friends across the nation in my remote classes are digital natives. They know the schtick. The know that most applications people use to teach were designed for office workers and that the kind of monitoring and controls that we expect when teaching high school are just not included nor generally welcome by the cubicle crowd.

In one school, I am to use Canvas. Student has an essay due at a certain time. They compose in Google Docs and paste a share link in the Canvas assignment submission application. This way, they have something in on time and won’t be penalized if they are still working on it after deadline because it’s a Google Doc still in their custody. Wow. That’s clever.

In one school, I am using Innovation plugged in to Canvas. When the security triggered and locked the student out of a test, he complained that he “just had a question for his teacher” and was guilty of nothing more than clicking on Zoom to ask. 🙄

I have inherited one AP French class from another instructor who did not maintain the kind of guardrails that I would have done. Students were basically able to paste in AI- or translator-generated responses to assignments. They had wonderful grades! All above 98! When I met them and asked for improvised conversation in French, they mixed up the words for 16 and 60… one asked his classmate to tell him what to say.

When I first start working with a remote class, I don’t activate all the security. Let’s face it, security online is necessary, but adds extra steps to things that are often annoying. Two-factor authentication, waiting for a confirmation email from a site to validate an email address, proving one is not a robot by clicking on all the pictures of bikes, using some third party app to authenticate us… I could go on. This stuff is annoying and time consuming. So to start, I don’t activate it on my remote assignments.

But then I may start seeing language proficiency well beyond the typical means of French class students. I see compositions that always end in “En conclusion…”. I see lots of “pasted text” records in the proctor logs. Now I turn up the heat.

The metaphor I might use here is the frog in the beaker of water in the science lab where they are turning up the bunsen burner so slowly that the frog doesn’t notice it. 😏

Using Innovation’s extensive student activity logging features, I can email the student to tell him he needs to use his second chance on the test because the proctor logs recorded he left the page 12 times and pasted text 3 times. 🙄

Using Innovation’s locking app, I can restrict access to the test after the due date to single-use codes that students must request in order to get in to use their second try privilege. Innovation’s locking app will allow me next month to restrict access from the start to single-use codes so that I micro-manage student access even more closely.

I can use Innovation’s high security setting to have the short answer test app close up and lock if the student leaves the task during the testing period (like to view another window). They’ll have to contact me to re-admit them.

I can follow closely exactly what a student is doing in the proctor’s notes for short answer and composition. Did they paste in text? Delete their answer completely? Leave the page?

Anecdote: I had a student back my last year teaching full-time before I retired. He was in my 9th grade Global Studies class. He wanted to take a test again because he said the app deleted all his work! I re-coded the app to record when a student deletes all their work. Next time, I caught him. He was just deleting it all and claiming a software error didn’t save his work.

Do you know what one of the biggest challenges of teaching adolescents is? It is to learn not to take these antics personally. Like most adults, it is in their interest to get as much as they can out of life with the least investment of energy. Sadly, this often leads to strategies that are in the long-term self-defeating and that violate ethical norms. I’m there: I still like my kids even though they can engage in what my grandmother would have called “diveltry”.

Pawn to queen 3… Knight to bishop 3… I have been teaching since my current students’ parents were in elementary school. I have all the tools I need to meet move for move as my digitally-native young friends try to take shortcuts. Innovation helps me do that!

Checkmate! 😉

Student Random Call-on App

In my current situation teaching part-time as a retiree remotely, I do find it useful to call on students in remote classes. Keeping students engaged in the lesson in a virtual class is a high priority for my attention during a lesson. This is perhaps moreso than in an in-person situation. I think it’s in the nature of digital devices with their many distractions and also due to the limitations placed on human interaction through these tiny windows!

When I am teaching new vocabulary to my French students, I like to use Innovation’s flashcard app. I use this all the time, especially in my beginner level French classes. The app allows me to execute a number of instructional operations: I can show the word, show the meaning, shuffle the word, save out only those words that are problematic for review of a narrower list, practice from definition to term or from term to definition. It really is very flexible.

Now, Reader, in one online high school I work for, all my lessons are one-on-one. So, using the flashcard app is really easy: I share my screen and conduct the instruction.

But teaching to a remote class, even as small as eight students, offers a challenge to maintaining engagement and attention. Last week, I was trying out a new strategy that turned out to work very well. The instructional context is a group of eight students in an AP French class. I needed to teach vocabulary using direct instruction. Here’s what we did: I showed a new term and pronounced it several times. next, I randomly called on a student to repeat and pronounce. then I showed the word’s meaning, then randomly called a different student to type in the Zoom chat to only me the meaning. This protected them from any embarrassment if they got it wrong, although the exercise is set up to be so easy as to limit that possibility. After the session, I sent them a link to a little quiz. The whole thing took about 15 minutes for ten words.

But I was not really great at calling on all students evenly. Some faces were hidden in the way Zoom displays them, so some students did not get called on as much.

There’s a new application now at Innovation that helps teachers to randomly select the next student to respond. It is installed in two places at present, in the main dashboard on the right and inside the flashcards app.

It’s very simple to use. In the flashcard app, click the “Call on Random” button on the left. On the right will appear a simple form. You type in the names, save them, then just click “Select random student”. Voilà! Your next participant!

The app randomly selects a student from the list and then removes them so they cannot be called again until everyone else has been. You can update the list any time.

Look for the random call app to be installed in a number of other places at the site, such as the improvised dialogue app.

Monitoring Student Progress in Real Time

Innovation has always developed in response to authentic, practical instructional needs of students and teachers. In retirement, I am enjoying teaching part-time remotely and this continues to inspire new apps and coding enhancement.

You know, Reader, if you take a good look at what you are using to teach in digital spaces, you may observe like I did that a lot of it is software originally designed for office workers. Word processors, spreadsheets, presentation software and the like: these were made for adults doing largely self-directed work in office work. We are so accustomed to these apps that we hardly realize that they don’t ever quite exactly fit for us in the classroom; that we are always creating modifications and work-arounds to make them work. And we get by…

21st century learning spaces, a paradigm often expounded here at this site, are virtual workspaces that really “fit” secondary instruction in ways that office productivity products do not. Let’s address monitoring student work.

One of my classes this year is an AP French class down in Texas. My objective was to teach them a new grammar point. During our in-class practice, I needed to be able to monitor their work while they were doing it.

Reader, you may already be familiar with Innovation’s grammar learning app. Students learning world languages benefit from practice transforming and generating utterances from prompts. The app meets this need by providing a digital learning space that is interactive. An algorithmic AI lets students know how close they are to the answer, for example, and the instructor can transform the content into a “live session” in which students participate in real time much like the famous Kahoot! game.

Innovation’s grammar app.

Adolescents can sometimes be distractible. In an in-person classroom, I have reasonable observational capacity to notice and redirect distracted students. In remote teaching, this requires some additional effort. What if I could see the student’s’ progress in real time as they worked?

Screenshot of a “live session”, an interactive space where the teacher can pose prompts and students respond in real time interactivity.

People learning new things can sometimes make mistakes. In an in-person classroom, I can wander the room and peer over students’ shoulders. I can try to catch mistakes as they make them and offer correction in a more immediate way. It’s a shame to have to wait a day or two before addressing writing errors. Immediate feedback is more effective so that the other practice examples go well and inculcate the correct syntax. What if I could peer over everybody’s virtual shoulders while they practiced their new writing skill?

The monitor app is now installed at Innovation’s short answer and world language composition tasks. It allows the instructor to view all of the students currently with any saved work on the task. Click the student name, and the instructor can see their work in real time (well, there’s a ten second lag for technical reasons). This work is refreshed every ten seconds. In the short answer monitor, the number after each name tells how many responses they have saved.

In situations where the teacher may wish to share the screen with the class, they can hide the student names and, for the short answer tasks, hide the correct answers.

The monitor, set up for a short answer task, showing students anonymously when needed.

The way I like to use this is as follows: I use two monitors. Monitor 2 is shared with students. I can set the names to “Anonymous” and share the monitor. I select students at random from time to time to check their progress. I may focus on someone who is behind. I may focus on someone I know needs more support (I can see the names before setting anonymous). In monitor 1, on the Zoom or Teams call, I can use the chat to message students corrections, suggestions, redirections if they appear off task, and so forth.

the monitor app, hiding the correct answers in short answer tasks when needed.

To activate the monitor, scroll to the activity in your dashboard course playlist. You’ll find “Monitor Class” in the task dropdown. Monitor is installed for short answer and composition tasks at present. While you are wandering around the site, why not visit our newly opening shops? You can purchase my own activities, PowerPoints, and DBQs for social studies.

Rediscovering the French Dictée

When I was in ninth grade, we had a large world language (then “foreign” language) department at my high school. My homeroom classmate had an older teacher for French I and I had her daughter for my teacher. For some reason, I recall a conversation about a dictation exercise, the dictée, that the older teacher (who was from France) regularly did. My teacher didn’t do dictées. My homeroom classmate was not too keen on them. That was the first time I heard of the dictée.

I couldn’t tell you why I remember that little homeroom conversation. But I never did have a dictée in any French class right up through my BA degree in French Language and Literature. The dictée had become old fashioned. Its emphasis on correct grammar and spelling were shoved aside as too rigid in the “notional-functional” approach that was growing in the early ’80s and which came to replace grammar-translation.

The dictée returned to my attention last fall when I read an article in FranceInfo about a dictée contest. In fact, such “concours” are pretty common now and the dictée, that classic French pedagogical tool, has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity.

Scroll ahead some months and I find myself teaching a student in French V for an online school. The student is brilliant and already fluent in French, so I am challenged to devise lessons for him when my usual stock of lessons fall within his mastery or when the grammatical studies in the syllabus provided by the school are things he easily tests out of. I asked him what he thought he needed to work on instead, and he said spelling. The dictée sprung to mind as a spelling activity.

Concurrently, I am teaching an AP French course through another company. It’s a small class of eight very bright students who are a pleasure to teach. Unfortunately, they have gotten into the habit of relying heavily on AI to generate their work. Even in improvised, spontaneous chat assignments, some of them repeatedly leave the page (the Innovation synchronous chat app tracks this) to no doubt consult the AI as to what to say. The work many of them submit is polished and perfect beyond their years. Language learning involves detecting common errors and refining the language. But if the students never reveal their errors or lack of knowledge, I cannot easily correct. It feels like an arms race to continually devise activities that are resistant to AI assistance. The dictée sprung to mind as a virtual classroom task that would be difficult to get AI help on.

Since I began teaching French (1990!), I have used composition assignments to look for errors to work on with students. These are assignments modeled on the New York State proficiency test and Regents exams of the era. They measure each clause by comprehensibility, appropriateness, and form. Students have a free error allowance (one for French III and up). These assignments were done in class under supervision with no references (although for classes needing extra support I could allow a certain number of questions). When I began teaching online, I wanted to use this assignment as I had. I coded a World Language App here at Innovation that provides a digital space for students with a proctor and an easy scoring page for teachers. A large percentage of my students use AI extensively to generate these even though I ask them not to. They present polished work that I know they could not have written themselves. One student I had actually created a few errors on purpose to cover the AI consultation. They were random and not the kind of natural “errors” that naturally occur. I don’t make a big deal. I rarely even let on that I know. Some students use AI less as the course goes on when they learn to feel comfortable. I contented myself with turning the perfect compositions into an exercise: I could ask students about what they wrote, the tense they chose, or just offer grammatical descriptions of the work. It was interesting watching them explain the presence of complex structures that they had not been taught yet! 🙂

The Dictée gives me important information about student proficiency and direction for lessons

I tried out a dictée with three students this week, French II, III, and V. I used the Innovation short answer digital learning space in two ways: I did one lesson “live” during our session and one was a recording I made for homework. I was pleased with the results. I learned a lot more about my students’ language abilities than from the weekly composition assignment.

My purpose is to discover student errors so we can correct them and polish them. The errors fall into two categories, lexical (spelling) and grammatical (conjugation and agreement, etc.). But I also learned that the dictée can reveal something about students’ vocabulary knowledge too. Words they do not know they are likely to skip or render phonetically. My guess is that native speakers would do a better job rendering unknown words spelled correctly because they are more familiar with the writing-phonology system of French.

I was happy enough with the results to modify the composition app to allow attaching an audio clip and a model answer. I worked with ChatGTP myself a little to code a function that would quickly assess the students’ spelling. This app is easy to use during synchronous sessions: I merely generate a link from the course playlist, the student saves their dictation, and then on submission I can display on a shared screen to debrief. I can also assign these for homework.

The student’s digital space for submitting dictée.
The scoring page where teachers can highlight errors with different colors for lexical errors and grammatical errors.

Valuable Information about Student Skill Levels

Since it is difficult and unlikely that students will have the time and opportunity to check this with an AI, I get valuable and authentic data about student skill levels. Namely, their lexical spelling, grammatical knowledge, and a good picture of their vocabulary. Research has shown that dictation can indirectly reflect a student’s vocabulary knowledge, since a richer vocabulary base enables more accurate transcription of spoken language. Currently, in remote teaching contexts it is difficult to get this information. Students at all levels are becoming adept at AI queries. They polish and submit work that defeats the purpose of assigning it!

The debriefing on the task is as important as getting the information about student skill levels. Reviewing the corrections and creating custom exercises to train students out of the errors or teach them the grammar structures and vocabulary they need: these are necessary to fully profit by the task.

The senior teacher in my high school, all those years ago, who maintained the tradition of the dictée would smile now, I suspect, to find that some of us are returning to that ancient practice. Keep an eye on the Innovation app that assesses dictés! I plan to refine it as I use the activity more and more.

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Terms and Conditions for PDF Purchases

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Introducing Innovation’s “DBQ Shop”

DBQ.

Document-Based Question.

If you teach high school social studies just about anywhere, working with primary source documents is likely a central feature to your course. This has been a major shift in teaching social studies in the past thirty years and it is a good one!

Retired now, I taught high school social studies for 18 of my 35 years on the job. Over that time, I developed a large collection of document-based tasks and training lessons to teach students to use them properly to reconstruct the likely past.

Most of my document-based tasks followed the structure of the New York State Regents Examinations for social studies: the enduring issue essay and constructed-response question (CRQ) in grades nine and ten and the short essay and civic literacy essay in US History grade 11. But incorporating one lengthy primary source text in each unit was also important to me and having students respond in a standard essay format was key for my units. I invite the reader to read more about using extended primary source tasks here.

In the DBQ shop, you will find document-based tasks that I edited and created. They are arranged by category. The sources are cited and this is especially important because students are supposed to consider the sources carefully. If you are interested in lessons for teaching students about primary sources, you may find something you like in the PowerPoint shop!

You need to be a subscriber to make purchases from the Innovation shops. Download links for purchased items are stored in your dashboard. The resources are all in PDF format. Please review the terms and conditions.

Using Innovation’s Moderated Synchronous Chat

This year, I am enjoying teaching French remotely, both one-on-one and in whole group configurations. In a whole group situation, encouraging engagement is important and synchronous chat is a great way to do this.

Most video conferencing apps like Zoom and Teams have chat features. But I don’t like using this for instruction for a variety of reasons. I need something that provides structured synchronous remote conversations in an environment that I can moderate, monitor, and record for possible later assessment. The Innovation synchronous chat is like a chat breakout room for education. Read more about the theoretical underpinnings of this app.

Permit me to describe how to use this handy educational app.

Step 1: Create a New Chat

First, the instructor creates a new chat. Select the course in which playlist you wish to post the chat. Click any of the green plus-sign buttons to add a new task. From the top, select “Chats”.

Now you can set up your new chat with a title and optional accessories. “Accessories” are additional elements that your assignment may need, such as a PDF document, a video, or just a simple description.

When you create the task, it places the link in the course playlist just like any other task. It will be listed as a “forum” type task and, while it can be viewed in form format, it will be a chat. Read more here about asynchronous discussion forums. When you are ready to use it, click on the link to start the host teacher session.

The Host Controls

Your teacher’s host controls are on the right. “Live Link” creates a URL that you can send to students so they can join the session. You can, for example, post this in the video conferencing app chat or in an email.

Another way students can join is by logging in to their Innovation dashboard, navigating to the course where the link is posted, and clicking on the link to the chat. Students cannot use the chat session if there is no teacher host. Teachers can hide links in the playlist for a course as needed.

There must be at least two students for the app to proceed.

My preference is to start up the chat and then copy the live link URL and paste it into the video conferencing chat so students can join easily without searching for a link.

As students join, their names appear in the participants list on the lower right.

Conducting a Chat

Once your students have joined, click on the “Assign Partners” button control. This will randomly and anonymously assign students to a chat partner (if there is an odd number of students, one group of 3 is created).

Now that partners have been assigned, you will see each team listed in the column to the right. Teams are nicknamed by world cities. You can click on these any time to view the current chat. You can share this screen so you can conduct instruction while chats are going on and share with the class anonymously what students are chatting about.

The chats need to be started. You can optionally set a timer to end the sessions after a certain number of minutes.

Students now have full functionality to conduct their assigned chat.

When the Session is Completed

Once the session is completed or is to be paused, you click the Disable Chat button. Now you can move to Debriefing Mode if you wish to display a shared screen with each teams chats and offer advice and commentary or discussion.

Other Features

Scoring Mode

Scoring mode is for the teacher. In scoring mode, you can assess students’ participation using a built-in rubric. Just click the team name to view the chat and the form for grading the chat. The rubric’s dimensions are quality, etiquette, appropriateness, and form. You can save the score. You can also just score it manually.

You may also find it useful to view the chat in a forum format. This is good for lengthier discussions with longer post sizes. You can grade the work here as well.

Viewing in forum mode lets you grade it based on other installed rubrics such as those for online discussion.

What if a student joins after we have started?

Students who join after the chat has been are automatically assigned to one of the other groups.

What if we want to resume the chats?

If the teacher enables chat again after a stop, the teams are the same and the chat picks up where it left off.

This app empowers teachers to foster meaningful interactions in a structured, remote environment while maintaining control and oversight. Its flexibility allows for dynamic group work, individual assessment, and real-time engagement—all tailored to the needs of modern educators and learners. By integrating tools like these, educators can enhance the depth and quality of online instruction, creating opportunities for collaboration that rival, and often surpass, traditional classroom experiences.

Announcing: The New “Activity Shop” and “PowerPoint Shop”

When I took up my first full-time job teaching at a small, rural school in 1991, I inherited a vast trove of teaching materials from the former instructor. A lot of it I pitched (some was dated from the 60s!) but some I kept and was grateful to have.

So, I’m retired. But what about all my stuff? Well, dear web-site-visitor, here is my stuff! I would like to invite you into my virtual classroom archives, kind of like a virtual garage sale. There are two shops here I hope you will browse to find many valuable purchases: one features online learning activities from my recent and current online courses (I continue to teach part-time in retirement) and the other shop features my old PowerPoint slide shows. Some of them date back 25 years, if you can believe it!

You need to be a subscriber to buy from either shop. The annual fee to subscribe to Innovation is extremely reasonable! Your purchases are saved to your account, your virtual classroom, in a course your students cannot see that is called “Purchases and Imports”.

The Innovation Activity Shop

Log in and shop across my recent and current courses for teaching world history, US history, and French levels I through AP French and even French V!

As you browse, you can preview items you might like. Click for pricing details to see what the activity contains (questions, images, audio, etc.). Checkout when you are ready and when you’re entering credit card data, don’t forget to enter a coupon or promo code you may have come across!

Upon transaction completion, the activities are copied from my class to yours in Innovation. You will find them in a class called Purchases and Imports.

The Innovation PowerPoint Shop

Log in to make purchases here too. These are downloads of PPTX files of all different sizes and on many different themes. I have taught French all levels, social studies middle and high school, and even computer science courses. At this writing, the shop already has over 300 PowerPoints and I have not even uploaded them all yet!

Once your purchase is complete, you will get links to download each file you purchased. The links also are posted to your own virtual classroom here at Innovation, that class called Purchases and Imports.

For both shops, be mindful please of the terms and conditions.

Terms and Conditions for PowerPoint (PPTX) Purchases

1 January 2025

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