Mr Greg's Virtual Teaching Setup

this video is going to give you a tour and a detailed explanation of the setup that i'm using for my two hours of live virtual teaching in the classroom so for kindergarten in our district we're doing two to two and a half hours of live teaching from the classroom or from home we have a choice i chose to do it from the classroom so i want to walk you through the setup show you the platforms that we're using and give you kind of a detailed explanation of how this works the first thing i will say is the the live lessons are recorded and i'm recording them with my phone so you see the tripod here so when i'm doing my live lessons i just record them with my phone those recordings are then shared with the families in case they couldn't be there for the live or if they have to leave early if they missed part of it if they want to go back and rewatch it they'll have access to that so i'm simply recording the live lessons with my phone so let's walk over and i'll show you my setup so you can see we've got our smart board we've got our ease on our writing chart and then this is the the work area so you can see i have two laptops one is the school laptop one is my personal laptop so let's start um with the personal laptop so the personal laptop is being used only for the live teams meetings and so for our live teaching we are using microsoft teams so that's what is pulled up on my laptop so again i'll say that again for the live lessons for our live teaching every day we're using microsoft teams as our live platform we are not using microsoft teams for any of the educational features or any of that we're just using microsoft teams as our live platform so that's our live streaming that's it so this laptop which is my personal laptop that i'm using is only being used for live streaming with microsoft teams there was lots of you had questions about the view that the kids would see and so i can i'm i haven't pulled up i'm not doing a live meeting so this would normally be full screen but this could give you kind of the idea of the view that the kids have so you know they might see me um the laptop stand is on amazon and what i liked about it is that it can raise and it rotates so it's easy to move so if i want the kids to see the writing chart i can very easily adjust it and then they can look at our writing chart if i want them to look at the smart board again they can very easily see the smart board if it's me you know i can adjust it i can get close i can be animated i can move and dance so that's kind of the view that the kids have so basically their view is me the smart board the writing chart and again because this laptop stand swivels it's easy to move and adjust that view so that they can see whatever i want them to see all right so that is microsoft teams is our live platform that's what this computer is for so this is my personal laptop it's on this laptop stand which we have links for on our website so this is only for live streaming that's all i'm using this laptop for again we're streaming for two to two and a half hours on microsoft teams all right so then the next thing we have is school computer and a document camera so we're not doing a lot of screen sharing right now because we're there's it's really glitchy with teams sometimes teams will freeze if you screen share so right now we're really using the smart board and so that's the smart board here's a smart board behind me is hooked up to this laptop which is my school laptop the document camera is hooked up to the laptop and so when i use the document camera it shows up on the smart board all right and so remember i can adjust the view on microsoft teams so they can see the smart board this has all worked great we've done two days of live teaching and it's worked phenomenally well they can see the chart they can see the smart board so it works well so really this computer is what the kids are able to we're using for the kids to see the content so whether they were using the document camera if we were to do a video they would watch the video on the smart board just like we do in our classroom when we're in person so we're not doing any screen sharing right now because microsoft teams tends to freeze up when we do screen sharing so we're using this laptop this document camera those are connected to the smart board and so videos document camera all displays on the smart board which the kids can see on our microsoft teams all right so on this laptop we have our playlist for our music so we've got our good morning playlist so this would be our arrival playlist so this is what's playing um as our meeting gets started as our day gets started together super easy i'm using itunes so i can just you know hit shuffle it's hooked up to the speakers which they can then hear because we're live right so they're able to hear that music through microsoft teams so we've got that and then we also have our um learning songs all right so that's how we do our music um one thing that i've i've learned and this is even true in person is i always have the document camera open and ready to go and i just minimize that and so it's an easy click of a button so i can always get to it i don't have to click it and wait for it to open so it's always open and ready to go so that's what it looks like on my laptop here's what it looks like on the smart board behind me here's what it looks like on microsoft teams now remember in a meeting if we were live this would be full screen so it's nice and big and clear for the kids um and so they can easily see what's happening under the document camera um so that works really really well all right and then say okay so we're done with that so i don't close it i just keep it minimized um so that's really the setup so let me kind of walk you through it again the tripod is for my phone i'm using my iphone to record our daily live lessons those recordings are then shared with the families in case they miss the live class this is my personal laptop which is being used for microsoft teams which is our live streaming platform so every day we have a microsoft teams meeting all the kids are on this is kind of the view that they see right so they can kind of see me they see the writing chart they see our smart board and so that's our live streaming platform only it's on a stand which we have links to on our website so i'm able to easily rotate this so we can change what we're looking at change our focus then we have our school laptop which is hooked up to our document camera it's also hooked up to our smart board so anything i want the kids to see is done through this laptop so we can we can project videos we can play music we can show our document camera so there's our document camera and then again it's all showing on the smart board behind me all right so i hope this helps let me back up a little bit so you can get a view of the whole setup so really what we have going on to summarize is laptop for streaming microsoft teams for the live feed then we have a laptop that's used for displaying content and it's connected to the document camera and the smart board so anything that i want the kids to see happens on this computer so document camera videos music all comes from this computer so this is kind of the content this is the live streaming on microsoft teams so i hope this helps i hope this gives you an explanation of the setup that we're using how it works um kind of how we're using each piece what's connected to what um and then we have questions of course we're happy to answer those but we also have several blog posts about the setup about the virtual learning and stuff like that so there you go thanks guys

Channel: Greg Smedley-Warren

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Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 06 2020