Zoom's whiteboard | 6 ideas for ESL teachers 

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Very welcome

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Glad it was helpful!

Hello to Brazil! I'm glad you found it useful, let me know if any of the ideas work for you.

Did you say 40 students per class? Wow, that's a lot. Thanks again for liking and subscribing, I hope my videos continue to help you!

@@CharliesLessons Yes, 40 per class, and that's in a public middle school. I am sure I will continue to enjoy your videos and benefit from them, too.

I was going to ask if you worked in a public school. With that number of students, you must use breakout rooms a lot!!

@@CharliesLessons I don't know what a breakout room is. Assuming that is a room into which only some of the students go, then no. 40 students start and finish in the same room. Here the students sit in columns, usually six of them. There are 6-7 kids in a column. When I want inter-team or intra-team activities, I ask them to move their desks so that they face one another. Other than that, they remain in their respective columns all through the lesson. It poses significant challenges to the usual ESL orthodoxy, to put it mildly. As this country follows its own ideals for English classes, and not the ideals asserted by ESL professionals, this is what everyone is used to. I can tell you, though, that once you are used to it, and once you know how to play the system to i(and the kids') advantage, it is not as insurmountable a problem as it may appear. If the teacher loves this work, and understands what a privilege it is to have so many minds focused one person as I do, then it can be positively rewarding...and some days just a pile of steaming sh1t! 40 kids laughing at your jokes and trying to do what you require of them is Heavenly, though 40 kids looking like they want to sleep or die... not so much.

So the students are not connecting online then? The students are in a physical classroom and YOU are the one online? Sounds like a hybrid classroom. I can imagine the skills you've learned in overcoming this obstacle will serve you well in the future, I'd put it on your CV for sure!

Thanks so much for your comment!

You can do it!

@@CharliesLessons Thanks so much for taking the time, Charlie!

Thank you so much for watching, I'm glad you liked it. 😍

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You're welcome!

Sending love to South Africa!

Great news, thank you!

I will often use Google Slides if I can't find the right material elsewhere. I assume you mean individual whiteboards on Zoom, if you have a premium account you can make multiple whiteboards but with a basic account you can only make a maximum of 3, so it's not viable. Your idea of making them as PDFs or PNGs, works better as it means you can make lots of them. I would share them with individuals or for groups, it depends on the type of task.

You'd have to contact Zoom directly for that.

For the Stop the Bus game, the teacher usually controls the whiteboad. But for future games you could allow the students access to the whiteboard and let them lead the game.

@@CharliesLessons Thank you!

Only drawing and placing objects.

Go to settings, In Meeting (Basic), then Whiteboard (Classic), then uncheck the box where it says Use Whiteboard by default if available.

@@CharliesLessons very helpful thanks

I'm not sure I can help. Sorry.

This must be because the Zoom whiteboard is launched within the browser. Try reducing the number of tabs open and/or deleting cache.

@@CharliesLessons I will try and let you know. Thank you so much!

Sorry to hear that

I'm afraid I'm not able to share lessons with my students due to privacy issues.

Ok thank you, I understand. I'm doing my final TP(TESOL LEVEL 5) next week on a grammar guided discovery lesson and think I'll use your idea for the whiteboard for phrasal verbs. You are inspirational! @@CharliesLessons

Thank you for the kind words, good luck with your course.

Hey Avigail, firstly, if you have a basic Zoom account you won't be able to make more than 3 whiteboards at a time. So if you have more than 3 students, you could have some problems there! But when you create a new whiteboard there should be a blue share button in the top right hand corner. You can add their email address or if you've set it to edit, you can copy the link and send that to the student too.

@@CharliesLessons thank you!!!

Thank you for your interest but my teaching program is currently in production. If you join my RU-vid channel then you would get a discount when the course is launched.

I'm afriad I'm only familiar with English language resources.

Good question but I'm afraid I don't have the answer!

I edit the video a lot. Also....I'm a robot...

Thanks for the feedback.

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Pretty sure if you open a text box, you can paste your question directly in there.