Online Teaching with Zoom: A Guide for Teaching and Learning with Videoconference Platforms

by Aaron Johnson

“Online Teaching with Zoom is an indispensable guide for improving your online teaching—whatever your platform.” - Barbara Oakley, PhD, instructor of Learning How to Learn , one of the world’s largest and most popular massive open online courses on Coursera. Online Teaching with Zoom is your guide for gaining the technical, classroom management, and teaching skills you'll need to operate with confidence in the live online classroom. Author of Excellent Online Teaching and veteran online teacher, Aaron Johnson integrates his background in online education and video production to guide you through a thoughtful and practical approach to adapt your teaching for this new environment. One hour with its initial chapters is likely to save you many days of trial-and-error. Each chapter helps you to learn the tools, develop new teaching skills, and discover effective methods to engage your students, What Educators are "Online Teaching with Zoom is timely and provides tips for educators who instruct virtually in a variety of settings (e.g., postsecondary institutions, elementary schools) and serve in diverse roles (e.g., presenter, trainer, faculty). Aaron Johnson offers readers a starting point to help them acclimatize to the "new normal" of instructing remotely." - Lenette Sanders, Special Education Teacher and Doctoral Student in Educational Technology and Online Learning "Best book on how to facilitate learning on Zoom I have read! So many useful suggestions and tools for experienced educators as well as those new to the learning environment. A must-read for all." - Cathleen Korondi, Dental Hygiene Program Director, Illinois Central College "This book is full of tips for using Zoom to best serve your students!" -Leanee Mauna, Professor of English at Palomar College "Not only is this book great for novice Zoom users (quite honestly veteran Zoom users could learn something as well) but it is easy to follow and contains many bits of very useful information that I never even thought about when running my sessions. The author does a great job of taking a quite possibly dry subject area and making it enjoyable for the reader." - Kathy Perez, Southern Cayuga School District Online Teaching with Zoom is designed to be the one guide teachers and schools need to get a quick start in the live video classroom and to create a sustainable and effective approach for their videoconferenced learning.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

Published July 27, 2020

About the author

Aaron Johnson is the author of middle-grade mystery-adventure novels and non-fiction books in the field of online education.

Middle-Grade Fiction
Aaron Johnson is the author and illustrator of the middle-grade mystery-adventure books in the National Park Mystery Series. As a backcountry guide, he has lived numerous months out of his backpack exploring Rocky Mountain National Park and the wilderness areas of Colorado. He is a former high school and middle school teacher and the founder of the online hiking guide, Dayhikes Near Denver. With over one-million visitors per year, it has become the most popular hiking resource for the Denver Metro Area and Front Range of Colorado. Aaron lives with his wife and two daughters in Castle Rock, Colorado.

Explore more at https://nationalparkmysteryseries.com


Online Teaching and Learning

Aaron Johnson is Associate Dean of Educational Technology at Denver Seminary, a graduate school in Littleton, Colorado. As a veteran online educator, Mr. Johnson's goal is to support teachers transitioning to the online classroom and those who want to improve their teaching skills.

His books have become go-to resources for colleges, universities, and K-12 school districts. Their to-the-point style and practical ideas make them easy to read and immediately applicable. Readers describe the series as "useful," "helpful," "applicable," "reassuring," and "accessible."

His background includes work as a teacher, instructional designer, and faculty developer. During the initial days of COVID, Mr. Johnson was a sought-after aid to institutions that needed help transitioning their faculty to online delivery.

You can learn more at https://excellentonlineteaching.com

Reviews

[Scott Hughes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful to maximize Zoom teaching and learning

I enjoyed this book and got more out of it than I thought I would. I use Zoom regularly for teaching (both formal and informal settings). Using Zoom is not natural but also user friendly for most people. The ideas in this book will certainly enhance how I use Zoom as a teaching tool.

[Dustin Briggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very Timely and Immediately Useful

This book was exactly what I needed at the most crucial moment in course prep.

It offers practical guides for the Zoom tool, but more importantly it provides pedagogical tips for getting the most out of the virtual classroom.

If you are thinking:
“it’s too close to the start of the semester for this book to be helpful.”
Give a second thought. Within the first few chapters you’ll find something you can immediately implement and by the end of the book you’ll have an array of options to improve the virtual classroom experience—even while you are in the new semester’s fray!

[Weldon Burge · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought the book to help with my Zoom presentations, largely for single library presentations. The book is more geared to teachers of course, and a good deal of the book deals with breakout groups, which is not something I do in my lectures. So, although the content didn't aid me much, for those who teach classes it is certainly worthwhile.

[Jorge Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

[Amy Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resources

I was Pleasantly surprised by this book! It provided numerous resources and templates. I highly recommend for anyone teaching via zoom.