Tips and tricks on implementing moozoom with limited tech access in your classroom!
1:1 student tech access: If your classroom has 1:1 tech access, the teacher can decide how they would like to structure moozoom learning time. Here are some of moozoom’s recommendations:
- Teachers can dedicate a small portion of the week to moozoom. This can be a morning meeting, closing circle, or any time up to the teacher's discretion. If your school offers an SEL block, moozoom could be utilized then.
- Mini-Zoom (Kindergarten-Grade 1): moozoom recommends viewing all videos as a class and then releasing students to complete the related activities on their devices. Please keep in mind that students may need support in navigating the moozoom platform when moozoom is first introduced. After a few weeks, students should be able to navigate the moozoom platform independently.
- Beginner (Grades 2-4): moozoom recommends viewing all videos as a class and then releasing students to complete the related activities on their devices. Please keep in mind that students may need support in navigating the moozoom platform when moozoom is first introduced. After a few weeks, students should be able to navigate the moozoom platform independently.
- Advanced levels (Grades 5-6): moozoom recommends students navigate the moozoom platform independently, working through the videos and activities at their own pace.
- For example: In a first-grade classroom, the class views the webseries as a group during their morning meeting. Afterward, the teacher assigns 1-2 activities (depending on the time available) and releases the class to complete the activities independently.
Limited tech access: If your classroom does not have 1:1 tech access for each student, moozoom recommends trying our center model solutions below (create small groups of students to rotate through centers together).
- moozoom solution #1: Utilize moozoom as a center and rotate small groups (3-6 students per group, depending on the number of Chromebooks/iPads/devices available). With this approach, all students can interact with the moozoom platform at least once weekly. Teachers can assign specific modules and related activities for each student, and students can watch the videos (Webseries, Zoom-Out, Zoom-In, Zoom-Act, and Zen-Zone) and complete their assignments during their designated moozoom center time. Teachers can monitor each student’s progress using the teacher dashboard. Teachers can also facilitate large group discussions after all students have completed a module if desired. Alternatively, if it is difficult for students to log in and out of their accounts in small groups, we recommend specifying different days for groups to complete their assignments. For example, group 1 uses moozoom on Monday, and group 2 uses moozoom on Tuesday, etc.
- Example #1: In a second-grade classroom, one day each week, the teacher sets up a moozoom center (could be in addition to literacy or math centers) with devices ready for students to log in. Students rotate through all centers that day so that all students have the opportunity to interact with moozoom.
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- Example #2: In a fourth-grade classroom, the teacher sets up centers every day during the week. The students stay in one center for the duration of center time. This eliminates students' difficulty logging in and out while transitioning through centers.
- moozoom solution #2: Similar to center solution #1, the key difference is that the class watches the videos together (Webseries, Zoom-In, Zoom-Out, and Zen-Zone), and students complete the activities on their own during their designated moozoom time. Teachers can monitor progress using the teacher dashboard.
- Designated weekly computer lab time: If your school offers a designated weekly (or more often) time slot for students to access a computer lab, moozoom recommends using this time for students to use the moozoom platform. This can be done in many different ways.
- The class can watch the moozoom videos as a group and use the designated computer lab time to independently complete assignments. Teachers can also choose to have students watch the videos independently and complete the assignments during the designated computer lab time slot. Alternatively, teachers can use the computer lab time for students to watch the videos and assign the activities as homework.
No student computer access: If your students do not have access to computers during the school day, moozoom recommends having students complete the moozoom modules at home as homework. Teachers are able to monitor student progress via the teacher dashboard. Teachers can also use morning meetings and/or closing circle time to facilitate a group discussion focused on the core competencies learned in the module.