vMiniWB.com: Training Workshop for teachers
Printed training notes for the presenter
Setting expectations
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Logging in for the first time
Set up a new class
- Enter a new class name (no punctuation or spaces)
- 'Create join code' (option at top)
- Copy to clipboard
- Send the code to your students
- Note that the code is only valid for 5 minutes.
- Note that you can use the QR Code button to project a QR code for students to use instead.
Guidance to give to students
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The key thing is to stress:
- "I will need you to save a bookmark, so you can start vMiniWB really quickly on future occasions. Do this when prompted on the 'Save Bookmark' screen."
Your first session
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Our training now
- Get into groups of at least 3, but ideally of 4.
- One person can be teacher and login for the first time. The other 3 can watch and help this (thus learning how to do this for their turn later). You should use a laptop as 'teacher'.
- The 'teacher' can follow the instructions above to create a training class and create a join code.
- The other 3 should then pretend to be students, joining up with the 'join code' from the 'teacher'. They could use a mobile phone, a tablet or a laptop to be a 'student'.
Suggested training 'tasks'
These instructions are targeted at the 'teacher'. The 'students' should co-operate as cooperative pretend students.
- Clear the student screens and use the top left admin board to draw a noughts and crosses board. Hold 'shift' or '/' to draw straight lines.
- Play turns individually, so students in blue, teacher in red to grasp the interaction.
- Hold 't' and click on a student board to 'tick' if they win. Hold 'x' and click on a student board to add a 'cross'.
- Experiment with sorting the boards by pressing i, r, h, c, v, s, f, b or e (See help for details). I mostly use i, but sometimes r.
Swap roles
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Advanced teacher skills 1
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Advanced teacher skills 2
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- Login as a teacher with Google-sign-in.
- Create a class, create a join code and share it.
- Black = Scaffolding. Blue = Students. Red = Marking.
- <Ctrl> +/- to zoom in out. Remember (I)ntelligent sort and (R)eorder by feedback.
- Hold keyboard letters and click: (T)ick, (X) is cross, (G)rid, (A)xis, Shift for straight line, (0) zero for circle, (L)ock, unloc(K), (U)ndo.
- Save black template screens with <Ctrl> <Alt> 1 etc. Press Q1 to (Q)uick load template 1 etc.
- Exit class and 'Organise class students'.
- Use 'Teacher auto-login'. Better still, put a bookmark on your desktop or on your browser bar.
- Read the 'Help' and 'Top tips'.
- There's a link to this training from the vMiniWB.com home page, at the bottom.