Step 1: Define Your Intention

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What are your teaching goals?

What engagement challenges would you like to solve in Zoom? Technology should follow pedagogy…in other words, use tools because they serve a teaching purpose. 

Using Zoom’s tools can help students achieve learning objectives, and are especially good for:

• Keeping students’ attention and keeping them on task.
• Gauging student learning and offering feedback in real time.
• Providing opportunities for students to learn from each other.
• Providing opportunities for students to participate in collaborative problem solving.

Additionally, a fun or interesting activity now and then to keep things lively and keep attention can serve a larger teaching purpose like building rapport, creating a supportive learning environment, or providing a break from hard mental work. Using Zoom’s interactive tools to help develop connections with and between students and form a community is a valid and important goal (See step 4 – Invest time in creating a supportive learning environment.)