Mentimeter: Perfect Your Online Teaching Presence

The Ultimate Guide to Teaching with the Mentimeter Learner Engagement Platform Inside Zoom, Teams and Google Meet

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English

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Teacher Training

What you will 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.

Why take this course?

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 develop practical techniques that will build your confidence in teaching in the virtual classroom/video conferencing environment (Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet) so that you can flawlessly execute your teaching plan.

The course includes downloads and templates to boost the speed of your adoption of best practices in designing online teaching sessions through the medium of Mentimeter and its written by me, Mike Highfield (SFHEA). I have recorded thousands of hours in the live virtual environment. I have been teaching for over 30 years in government, corporate, high school, college and universities. I will teach you how to use educational and instructional design principles that will help you to understand the ingredients of your perfect lecture, training session or lesson. Mentimeter is the medium of delivery and I will show you how to drive engagement and feel in control. Join me!

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