dLearning Highlighted in Recent One-Minute Spotlights

Recent episodes of Learning NOW in Barrington 220 have included One-Minute Spotlights highlighting Distance Learning (also known as dLearning) during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order. Check out BHS Spanish teacher Sheila Soss and Lines Grade 3 teacher Sarah Dowdy in these great dLearning examples!

Barrington High School Spanish teacher Sheila Soss works with her entire class using Zoom video conferencing. This class was conducted in Spanish as students watched video content, spoke together in Spanish in Zoom Breakout Rooms, and watched a live grammar lesson from the teacher’s iPad. A Zoom Breakout Room gives a teacher the option to break students into small groups for a specified amount of time. During the breakout session, the teacher can visit each room. At the end of the breakout activity, everyone in the class can return to the full group.



Lines Elementary Grade 3 teacher Sarah Dowdy works with her third grade class in a Zoom video conference to teach a math lesson about parallel lines. Sarah uses the online whiteboard features of Zoom and interacts with her students throughout the lesson.