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Nick Cherney

Shifting Gears: Practical Tips for Teaching a Stage I Blended Class

Marijke Geurts and Dori Tarjan, Avenue project mentors and developers, provided a demonstration for instructors of Stage I classes (CLB 1-4) who may have worked with Stage II learners (CLB 5-8). This session helps them make the stage shift from two to one.
Dori and Marijke provided tips on facilitating a Stage I blended class and review the backwards planning model and look at

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Nick Cherney

Fresh Start for Back to School on Avenue

Margaret shared and demonstrated relevant Avenue tools and features that allow instructors and administrators to monitor learners’ progress throughout the term. The presentation will also include tips and strategies for streamlining the process and engaging learners in monitoring their progress.

This webinar is part of the series dedicated to better teaching practices on Avenue.

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Nick Cherney

Keeping track of learners’ progress using Avenue’s tools

Margaret shared and demonstrated relevant Avenue tools and features that allow instructors and administrators to monitor learners’ progress throughout the term. The presentation will also include tips and strategies for streamlining the process and engaging learners in monitoring their progress.

This webinar is part of the series dedicated to better teaching practices on Avenue.

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Nick Cherney

Flipping a Classroom on Avenue

Margaret Stasiak discussed principles and benefits of using a flipped classroom model and cover the basics of its planning. She also presented sample activities and teaching tips that can help enhance students’ active learning experience and develop self-directed learning strategies. This webinar is part of the series dedicated to better teaching practices on Avenue.

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Nick Cherney

Developing strategies to address AI issues

Language teaching professionals are carefully scrutinizing how they can make ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence in their teaching practice. In this webinar, Vicky Saumell discusses the application of AI in ELT contexts. Becoming aware of AI’s functioning and issues is only the first step towards the development of strategies to use these tools thoughtfully. We will identify and look at these issues and

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Nick Cherney

Teaching writing skills online using Avenue resources

Margaret discussed ideas, strategies and sample activities that can help learners develop accuracy and fluency in speaking, and demonstrate how various Avenue resources can be used as a springboard for synchronous and asynchronous speaking practice exercises. The focus of the webinar is on teaching in virtual classrooms, Stage 1 learners. This webinar is part of a series focused on better practices in teaching with Avenue.

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Nick Cherney

New e-Units on English for Careers in Senior Care

Margaret discussed ideas, strategies and sample activities that can help learners develop accuracy and fluency in speaking, and demonstrate how various Avenue resources can be used as a springboard for synchronous and asynchronous speaking practice exercises. The focus of the webinar is on teaching in virtual classrooms, Stage 1 learners. This webinar is part of a series focused on better practices in teaching with Avenue.

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Nick Cherney

Teaching Speaking Skills Online Using Avenue Resources

Margaret discussed ideas, strategies and sample activities that can help learners develop accuracy and fluency in speaking, and demonstrate how various Avenue resources can be used as a springboard for synchronous and asynchronous speaking practice exercises. The focus of the webinar is on teaching in virtual classrooms, Stage 1 learners. This webinar is part of a series focused on better practices in teaching with Avenue.

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Nick Cherney

Delivering engaging synchronous sessions in Avenue

Marijke Geurts and Dori Tarjan, Avenue project mentors and developers, provided a demonstration of tips and ideas for planning and creating engaging videoconferencing sessions in Avenue. they also presented best practices for structuring lessons, using breakout rooms, whiteboards, shared notes and the chat features of BBB. Join us to learn practical strategies to enhance engagement, increase learner participation and tackle common challenges.

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Nick Cherney

Creating a course template using Avenue’s tools and resources

A template is a pre-designed framework for a course that allows instructors to quickly build new courses with a consistent structure and appearance. A well-designed template will enhance the look and feel of the course and improve student navigation. In the webinar, Margaret demonstrated Avenue’s templates available in CourseBuilder (in the course request form) and discuss how an organizational template can be built by modifying

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Nick Cherney

Help! New Avenue Support Webinar

In the Help! New Avenue Support webinar, Nancy Van Dorp, John Allan & Paul Carter, demonstrated features on the new Avenue online supports for instructors. This included the new searchable knowledge base, link to live assistance, a digital suggestions box, a report an issue tool, and suggestions to acquire assistance more efficiently with their mentors. The aim of this session was to assist instructors to

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Nick Cherney

Tips for LINC 7 8 Avenue Instructors

Marijke Geurts and Dori Tarjan, project mentors and developers, demonstrated various strategies, ideas, and tips for teaching LINC 7-8 learners. Dori and Marijke also shared ways both those with an Instructor (non-editing) and Teacher (editing) role on Avenue can adapt and add resources for the higher levels, when teaching a blended or online program.

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