{"id":34348,"date":"2023-02-01T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/?post_type=mec-events&p=34348"},"modified":"2023-02-06T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:29:17","slug":"10-new-zoom-features-to-enhance-your-teaching-and-better-engage-your-students","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/events\/10-new-zoom-features-to-enhance-your-teaching-and-better-engage-your-students\/","title":{"rendered":"10 New Zoom Features to Enhance Your Teaching and Better Engage Your Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for new ways to enhance your teaching and improve student engagement in your classes delivered on Zoom? Or are you just curious about Zoom updates made over the past year and the new innovations in store? Either way, this webinar is for you!<\/p>\n

Zoom made an estimated 1,000 updates to the popular video conference platform last year, most of which were behind-the-scenes technical improvements. In this webinar, Dr. Ron Owston separates out 10 of the most valuable new features for educators and describes how they may be applied to online teaching.<\/p>\n

Key takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the topics to be discussed are:
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0New ways to use auto transcription
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Zoom apps: what they are and how to use them
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Improvements made to the Zoom whiteboard
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Enhanced polling, quiz and end-of-meeting survey features
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Communicating with breakout rooms
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0What upgrades to expect in 2023<\/p>\n

HOST:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ron<\/p>\n

Dr. Ron Owston<\/strong><\/div>\n
Contact North | Contact Nord Research Associate<\/div>\n
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The founding director of 快播视频\u2019s Institute for Research in Learning Technologies, Dr. Owston is also a former Dean of the Faculty of Education and University Professor Emeritus at York. He ranks among Google Scholar\u2019s most-cited blended-learning researchers globally. Dr. Owston's webinars on effective use of Zoom for teaching as part of the Contact North I Contact Nord webinar series are lauded by educators around the world.<\/p>\n

What participants say about Dr. Owston\u2019s webinars:<\/p>\n