My multimodal lesson plan
Welcome to this page where you can find a lesson plan designed to include some multimodal activities based in the principles of multimodality and the review of the article "Instructional Strategies for Online Teaching in COVID-19 Pandemic" by Samreen Mahmood
Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to identify and explain the different instructional strategies discussed in the article "Instructional Strategies for Online Teaching in COVID-19 Pandemic" by Samreen Mahmood.
- Students will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of different instructional strategies for online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Students will be able to develop and implement their instructional strategies for online teaching
Warm-up: Students will watch the following picture for about 1 minute and then the whole class will discuss what it conveys to them.
Next, students will watch the
following video:
Activity 2: Voice Roller Coaster
The teacher asks the class the next question: How the
use of your voice can create a limitation or be an advantage when teaching
online?
After listening to the comments of some of the students, the class will watch the next video
and practice the tips given.
How to Sound Like a Pro in Virtual Meetings
To practice pitch variation and intonation the students will have a list of short sentences or phrases, each associated with a specific pitch pattern (e.g., rising pitch, falling pitch, wavy pitch, low voice, loud voice).
Each student takes turns selecting a sentence and reading it using the prescribed pitch or voice pattern.
Then, the group will judge if their classmates followed the patterns correctly and will discuss how the different pitch patterns and voice variations interfered with the understanding of the given sentences or phrases. Finally, students will share their conclusions about how voice and pitch management are related to online communication.
· Activity 3: Writing your strategies
Based on the reading "Instructional Strategies for Online Teaching in COVID-19 Pandemic" by Samreen Mahmood, and the previous activities, students in groups of 3 will write either a song, poem, or rhyme mentioning what they consider successful strategies for Online teaching (at least name 5 strategies) and present it to the class.
Hello Johan, this is my recording https://voca.ro/1b4M3fACWIk5
ResponderBorrarHello dear Alejandro. First, I would like to thank you for checking my lesson plan with so much detail. Related to your comments, I appreciate that you mentioned the fact that I had a well organized lesson plan, and that I followed some of the principles of the multimodal approach. Additionally, I agree that my lesson can be improved by adding some aspects related to culture or intercultural competence and make a contrast between our reality and the one presented in the article. Once again thank you so much.
BorrarHello, I'll also leave my comment here: https://voca.ro/1jQfuTzLhqyV
ResponderBorrarHello dear Cristian, thank you so much for your review on my lesson plan. I must say that I loved your suggestion about the role play idea, asking them to act as streamers is a good way to practice the voice management, so I will consider the piece of advice you just gave me.
BorrarDear Johan, this is an interesting lesson. I appreciate that you included objectives and provided instructions to students. You also design a lesson combining several modes of communication and creating transmodal sequences. I do agree with Alejandro that several principles of MP are included here. Things that can be improved include: the lesson needs to include a grading criteria. I see that this lesson is not very overloaded with activities but the sequencing could be better. For example, the activity about pitch appears sort of out the blue. It could fit but it needs to have a better transition into it. The last activity may yield creative results.
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