that students had discovered it and liked it.
“A lot of our students had come across my YouTube channel and were saying ‘Sir, I see you’re recording your karaoke and it’s so awesome to see you doing that’.”
He said he used karaoke as a way of sharing positive energy with his students during the lockdown and yes, he takes requests.
Glenfield College Business Studies teacher Rena Zhu has taken to the video-sharing network TikTok as a means of supplementing her students’ lessons.
“I know a lot of them are probably on their phones during lockdown and might not be as engaged in learning, so I thought maybe I’ll just create a TikTok and upload some short, educational videos about my subject so that students can be on their phone but also on a platform that they love to use,” she said.
And it’s working.
“Students have said that the videos do help them understand more and I’ve got a few comments from random students that are not from Glenfield College saying that the videos have helped them as well,” she said.
Zhu said it was important to set work that was not so hard that it switched students off and also to include sessions that were about fun first and foremost.
“Doing fun zoom calls that are not always about learning, so trying to mix it up a bit so people are still motivated to come on to the Google classrooms and meet the teachers and communicate in a positive way,” she said.
