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Next week’s lessons

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Hi everyone,

I just updated the live teaching events calendar with lesson titles and learning objectives for all of the live virtual lessons are be teaching next week between Monday to Wednesday for GCSE and AS/A2 students of physics, chemistry and biology.

I’ve highlighted these lessons in blue on the live teaching events calendar for next week.

Students at Acland Burghley school and LaSWAP can book tickets and attend these virtual lessons free of charge using coupon codes which I’ll send out to them by email shortly.

Next week sessions will all be done in the fully interactive meeting format, where any users who would like to enable their web cam and microphone will be able to be seen and heard by all other users. You can also attend without using microphone and web cam if you wish.

If you wish to fully interact in the virtual classroom by using your web cam and microphone please ensure that you are properly prepared for your lesson before it begins:

  • A webcam (so you can be seen by your teacher and other students)
  • A microphone (so you can be heard by other students)
  • Headphones (so you can hear your teacher and other students, and also because if you listen to the audio of this event through speakers you will cause feedback!  Please use headphones or DO NOT ATTEND!)
  • A quiet place to work for an hour, where anyone else who may come in knows you are not to be disturbed.  Your work area must have good lighting, but don’t sit with your back to window (you’ll appear as a silhouette to everyone else).
  • Preferably a fast broadband connection – the virtual classrooms display in HD, so the faster your internet connection is the better the quality of audio and video you’ll get
  • A desktop or laptop computer is best, but you can use a tablet or smartphone too
  • Make sure your device doesn’t have any documents or images open or on the desktop which you don’t want others to see or violates our terms of service and student community rules; use your common sense please.  You may be sharing your screen with the class at any time, so make sure both your physical environment and your device are free of anything private or inappropriate.

Please respect others, follow the student community rules and enjoy your lesson.  Any inappropriate behaviour will lead to immediate ban and expulsion of that student from all future Invisible College services and events.

Please ensure that you book your tickets at least 24 hours in advance to give me time to send you the registration link to allow you to register and receive your unique link and password to join the session. If you book your ticket any less than 24 hours in advance of the session you wish to attend you may not receive your unique link and password in time to attend the meeting!

Finally, there are InvisiCoin rewards for attending next weeks lessons:

  • 20IC for each session you attend as a ’view only’ participant (no webcam or mic),
  • 40IC for each session you attend where you enable only your mic (no webcam),
  • 80 IC for each session you attend where you participate in audio/video using your webcam and mic.

I hope to see you all in the virtual classrooms!

M. Ahmed

InvisiCoin Rewards for attending this week’s Live Teaching Events!

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For anyone attending the live virtual lessons (marked in blue on the events calendar this week), I’ll reward you:

  • 20IC for each session you attend as a ’view only’ participant (no webcam or mic),
  • 40IC for each session you attend where you enable only your mic (no webcam),
  • 80 IC for each session you attend where you participate in audio/video using your webcam and mic. I hope to see you all in the virtual classrooms!

Book your tickets now!

This week’s TEST sessions in our virtual classrooms (Mon-Thu)

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Hi all,

I just removed the password wall while the site was in alpha, so I’d like to welcome one and all to the public, live (but still very much beta!) version of Invisible College! 🙂

Last academic year, I used YouTube live streaming to teach revision webinars to my GCSE and AS/A2 sciences students and it seemed very well received by the students in general, and I’m pleased to congratulate my ex-year 11 and year 13 students at Acland Burghley School on their recent results!  Well done guys!

After the seeming success of doing interventions with students and revision via YouTube streaming last year, over the summer I thought I’d build something more effective and engaging for this year’s science students at Acland Burghley and LaSWAP.

Over the course of this week I’ll be doing a series of virtual lessons where we’ll be exploring the ways in which students and teachers can interact with each other in a virtual classroom.  These are open to any students at Acland Burghley or LaSWAP studying physics, biology or chemistry at GCSE or AS/A2 level.

The website is still very much in development, but I think it will still prove useful to our more motivated students.  It’s a project I started late last year, and while it’s pretty functional and feature rich (including its own social network, interactive course modules and learning activities etc.) it won’t be a ‘finished product’ for at least a couple of years.

However, I’m hoping it will help any students who are interested in joining the project in its infancy regardless, as well as help me develop as a teacher.  I hope other teachers who are interested in teaching their subjects using e-learning methods or live online will get involved also.

After this week’s series of introductory virtual lessons, starting next week there will be a weekly live teaching event for each science subject at GCSE and AS/A2 level (please see the Live Events Calendar on the www.invisible-college.com website).  By the end of this week there will be lesson titles and learning objectives posted for all scheduled lessons (Mon-Weds) on the Invisible College Live Events Calendar, so please regularly check for updates.

I’ve been using this platorm to deliver private tuition and other private academic coaching services online since early this summer, and will continue to offer private tuition at heavily discounted rates to subscribers via regular discount codes etc., but I’m making access to it free of charge for Acland Burghley students and LaSWAP consortium students for this academic year to support my ‘brick and mortar’ students and department.

Please email me or see me if you are interested, and I can give you further instructions on how to create an account and attend this week’s live teaching sessions.