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NowComment Online Transition Quick Guide

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NowComment Online Transition Guide
How to Take Your Instruction Online in 60 minutes

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NowComment, a group discussion tool for online multimedia documents, is an excellent tool for coping with the sudden need to put courses online due to the coronavirus crisis:

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  • It’s free, very reliable (10+ years of classroom use all over the world), and works on any Internet-connected computer or smartphone
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    How Student’s Feel About School Shutdown
    With students describing it, shutting down campus has been emotional, and they have suggestions for what kind of teaching works best now that instruction is strictly online. Having to experience this as a senior in high school, it is very upsetting, no prom, graduation, senior prank and many more things. Several participants tried to disrupt the meetings by posting slurs in all caps in the chat, part of a phenomenon called Zoombombing. Our moderators did their best to quickly disable public chat and block the users who were violating our policy, but the incident was a reminder to anyone planning public events on Zoom to be aware of this online vandalism trend.

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  • Easy to use (with students as young as 2nd grade)
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  • Groups can discuss text, video, and images (all can be integrated in the same online document)
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Does NowComment Offer the Instructional Capabilities You Need?

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Learning to Use NowComment

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Here’s an easy step-by-step sequence to get your students working on their first NowComment document:

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  1. Create a NowComment account for yourself (1 minute)
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  3. Create a NowComment Group for each Group of people you want to work with, whether all students in a course, smaller student workgroup, peer or peer collaborators (1 minute per Group)
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  5. For each NowComment Group, upload your Excel/CSV roster (~2 minutes) or invite them via copy-and-pasting email addresses (depends on how many students)
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  1. Upload an existing MS Word or HTML document or a video or an image; most but not all PDFs can be converted to HTML so don’t start with a PDF. (2 minutes). As part of the upload, you can optionally choose to take advantage of special NowComment features (e.g. hiding students’ comments from their classmates but not you for brainstorming or test-taking purposes, setting end dates and times for commenting, requiring a certain number of copies)
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  3. Make some comments of your own to model what you’re looking for (usually 1-2 comments a minute, how long and how many up to you)
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  5. Optional— Flag students about any key sections by making comments telling them what to pay attention to (1-2 comments a minute)
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  7. Share your commented document with one or more NowComment Groups by “Inviting” them to the document (2 minutes); you can copy your document to multiple groups (and copy over your comments or not as you choose).
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Subtle Aspects of Successful Transitioning Online

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Nowcomment won’t let you down; keeping a positive mindset in the face of stress is a bigger challenge! Here’s some advice from last week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers webinar on pedagogical aspects of this transition:

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Manage Expectations: You’re about to pull off this transition with little advance notice, prep time, or help from Administration; it won’t go perfectly, you can’t prepare for all the eventualities, and that’s OK. Take it a day at a time. Some aspects of face-to-face classroom won’t immediately translate online (e.g. fully proctored testing, taking attendance).

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Reassure your students (who may be freaking out too, especially those without good Internet access) — Communicate the “it’ll be OK” attitude to them: we’re all in this new adventure together, we need to be patient and resilient with each other, we’ll make it through together. Be warm (smile a lot) and try to gently ease students into the online experience rather than abruptly dive into full-blown coursework. Invest in a good microphone, give them models of the kind of comments you’re looking for, let them know about the videos and other resources above.

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Online tools like NowComment give you teaching flexibility — One safe starting point is to just record a video lecture, upload it to a server (e.g. your school, YouTube, Vimeo), and then share it in NowComment; students will enjoy the agency of choosing when (by some deadline) to watch it and interacting with their peers. As you and they get more comfortable you can use NowComment to mix in some small group assignments (e.g. they can upload documents for peer review).

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Supplement NowComment with other tools — You can use Zoom video conferences, Facetime text chats, and other tools to give your students what they need (e.g. 1:1 time with you or small group live interactions).

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If you have Questions or Concerns

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  • Email us: [email protected]
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DMU Timestamp: March 12, 2020 00:41

Added April 15, 2020 at 5:39pm by Professor Benosmane
Title: Sentences

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Draw a line from the phrases on the left to those on the right to make complete sentences.

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I tried to imagine lifea narrow path.

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You'll never knowshe chops onions.

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The car advanced slowlyon the moon.

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The tree providesunless you try.

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We walked alongdown the street.

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She always cries whenplenty of shade.

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Draw a line from the phrases on the left to those on the right to make complete sentences.

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I tried to imagine lifea narrow path.

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You'll never knowshe chops onions.

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The car advanced slowlyon the moon.

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The tree providesunless you try.

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We walked alongdown the street.

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She always cries whenplenty of shade.

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