 Hello everyone and this is a short video and I know some of you are still working online and 12 tips for teaching in a virtual learning environment and this is a piece of research and from the health industry that I do think has some relevance to the world of education and many of the things we already do I guess it's just adapting to online you know I'm actually teaching in two locations through a zoom call straight ahead and to my mobile phone here. Here are the 12 tips. The first one is reviewing the learning objectives, looking at your current curriculum and adapting this for online delivery. Reviewing the resources that you have available so all those usual worksheets and things, how you hand those out practically online. Exploring the strategies so you've got a plan but also thinking about how you're going to deliver and sequence your curriculum and building retrieval practice exercises to not only engage but to support long term retention. When you design the content for online you've got to use a variety of strategies so my tip you know I'm using zoom here, social media here and sometimes I do live interactive polls on both devices using breakout rooms which we've got here. So maximising the technology, thinking about the purpose of assessment online, retrieval practice, low stake assessment, no grades but where that's going to go towards the end of the curriculum and given that we are still a bit of a limbo about the nature of exams and how pupils all be assessed. But if we put this aside, how are we going to engage kids through online assessment, give them feedback, many of these on Zoom, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, those types of platforms. But you're going to need to refine and reflect to a virtual environment all those curriculum materials, the resources and your strategies. Top tip, you need to familiarise yourself with all the tools as well as also get the pupils to be familiarised. I would suspect now six months in many of you are becoming a bit more good at this type of stuff but you still find one or two pupils need some reminders, particularly safeguarding being safe and respectful. Have a backup plan, what if both these, the Zoom I've got here, the video I've got here, suddenly switch off. Do students know where to go to to find their resources or do we switch back to emails? Do you have a backup plan if the connection disappears? So have a backup plan and then consider social media, online teaching, 24-7 connections, that compassion, that transition to online. Think about how we can also maintain a bit of humane contact remotely. So I'm going to do it here. This is a piece of research we've included in the link. I hope you find it useful and something you might want to consider referring to. If you're still in a position where you're thinking about how to switch more of your material to teaching online because I know some of you watching have been in lockdown since January. People watching where I am here in England were back at school with lockdowns and various restrictions taking place and approximately about 800,000 to a million pupils already self-isolated since the beginning of term. So hope that helps. Let me know what you think.