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Speaker 1: OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.
Paul Yung: Good morning, everyone. We'll get started, I like to start on time. My name is Paul Yung, thank you for joining me for Chula Vista. We are at the Putting English To Work 1 and 2 on Canvas session. I'm in Los Angeles, I am an OTAN subject matter expert. But my day job is the Los Angeles Unified school district's division of Adult and Career Education's EL Civics advisor.
Many years ago I was the distance learning advisor at LAUSD. And the distance learning program produced the Putting English to Work series. And they have been used in the division for actually across the state for quite a few decades now, and we could probably safely say that millions and millions of students have learned English through our series. So I'm really thrilled to be here to share with you the most-- the latest iteration of putting English to work.
And they originated on VHS, DVD, 12 years ago they were transferred to Moodle as online courses, and now I am involved with OTAN project to put these courses on Canvas with H5P interactivity. So I'm really excited to show that to you today. We're going to start with the agenda.
I'm going to give you some compelling reasons why you should be using putting things to work online with your students. And then the meat of the session is that Canvas and H5P demo. I'm going to walk, just walk through some of the exercises and putting these to work 1, and show you how things have been updated in a very cool and interactive manner.
And then we'll have to talk about the obstacles our students face in online learning. And many of you already have a lot of experience probably more than I do, and you know what they are but it's always good to talk about them as a group and share ideas.
And then I'm going to offer some keys to success and how to make this online class work for you and your students. And then I'm going to issue a challenge to you teachers on why you should adopt this course for your students. And then we're going to talk about how you can get access. And guess what, for most of you it'll be free. Now, you can't beat that today in 2023.
So, why PETW 1, 2, and 3. OK, I know my first slide the session is about PETW 1 and 2, right? That's true, but PETW 3 is coming. So I couldn't resist putting it on here. So if you get started today with your students or maybe next week depending on how fast we can move, you get started with your students using putting things to work 1, and 2, they'll be ready for 3 when we roll it out next year.
So, why use putting these to work? Well, it was created by ESL teachers. ESL teachers in California Adult Education. Teachers who know our student population and what they need. The course was not created by publishers who have profit margins to consider and their quarterly reports to Wall Street, these were created by ESL teachers who have an intimate understanding of the student population where they're from, the challenges they face assimilating, and the language and literacy skills they need to succeed in their new country.
The three courses, putting things to work 1, 2, and 3 are beginning low, beginning high, and intermediate low. And they are based on the Los Angeles Unified School District division of adult and career Education's ESL course outlines. These are complete courses with life skills, grammar, exercises, and assessments.
In total, there are 68 half hour videos plus workbook activities that includes the exercises that I spoke about, and the unit test. And here's one of my favorite parts, automated correction of exercises and assessments. So you spend less time correcting your students work and more time interacting with them and helping them succeed.
Next, the episode stories are our students' stories. These are like half hour TV shows, they are full of characters who look like our students, a very diverse cast characters from many different countries. And they're trying to learn English and find their way in their communities. And their stories, the challenges they face are exactly what your students face every day trying to adapt to life here in the US.
So basically your students will see themselves in these stories, and it will have a meaningful impact on what they learn. And finally, of course learning online is a 21st century life skill. If we get our students to start using their computers and taking advantage of their internet connections, they're going to be able to have an easier time looking for work later, finding affordable housing, accessing community resources, all of this is online now.
So for all these reasons, you should definitely consider these three courses for your school and students. And now the fun part. Putting this to work 1, 2, and 3 had been on Moodle and used widely across the state for about eight years. And we spent the last two years migrating the lessons to Canvas with H5P interactivity.
OK, so I'm going to-- I'm going to get out of my slide right now, I'm going to stop sharing, and I'm going to go to my putting these to work 1 course on Canvas. So just give me a second to change my share screen settings and I'm going to go here. And this is if you look at the very top upper left corner, is say's Paul's PETW 1 sandbox. This is where I'm playing around assembling the courses with the new H5P accessibility features.
So, when you request this course, it might not look exactly like this, the interface, but the content will be all here. So if I close this, you can see that I have 20 units of putting English to work 1. This is the beginning low. And by the title, you can guess what the subtopic is for each unit. What's your name? Where do you live? The calendar, special occasions, tell me about your family.
And if I click the arrow to the left, I'm going to see the contents of the entire unit. Let's start at the top. At the top you'll always find episode one, you'll always find the video. This is a snapshot from the original workbook, the paper workbook. And you can see the summary of the life skills, vocabulary, and the grammar.
And here there's a synopsis of what happens in this episode in terms of the characters. Again, another life skill summary and a grammar summary. If I click on this link, watch episode one, a new window will open up and the video will play. Canvas has a smartphone app for Android and iPhone, and these courses look great.
So all your student would have to do is download the app, and it's free for their Android phone or their iPhone. So, I'm going to click on watch video episode one. And hit play.
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- Hello, I'm Liz Chan. In this television series, you will learn to speak, listen to, read, and write in English. You will learn to introduce yourself.
- I say my first name and my last name. I'm Silvia Marquez, and I give you my hand.
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Paul Yung: OK, so obviously we're not going to watch that whole episode. But you can see that the video starts playing instantly. The image quality although not high definition is quite good for an educational video and very acceptable. The audio quality is outstanding. And this is every unit begins with a summary of his content and the opportunity to watch the video.
If I click on Modules, I'll go back to the main list. OK, and we're just going to walk down and view a couple of these exercises. Let's look at classroom vocabulary. So we've seen the video and now we have a nice visual, drag and drop exercise.
OK, so pencil, and let me tell you, this looks great on the cell phone. The text is big, the pictures are-- the very same pictures from the book, so I'm purposely making a few mistakes here. I actually do have an understanding of the grammar, I mean, the vocabulary. But let's see what happens when you don't get some things right.
Speaker 2: Paul, there's a couple of questions in the chat. One--
Paul Yung: Oh, yes.
Speaker 2: How long has this been around? And then the second one was, does a teacher need to know how to use Canvas in order to implement this?
Paul Yung: [laughs]
It's been around for-- putting English to work they started working backwards. Is it OK if I answer these questions at the end because these questions don't relate to the demo? I'd like you to watch the demo. And if you have questions about the demo, that would be good. Like for example, Paul, what happens if the students get it wrong? How many opportunities do they have? Do they have to get this exercise right? And can they view their answers? Questions related to what we're doing would be ideal. Other questions, we'll have time to answer later, is that OK with everyone? Can you give me a thumbs up so-- OK, I got a couple of thumbs up, that's great.
So, I'm just trying to do things in context. So I could give you the demo and we could ask about teacher responsibilities, student records, and then that takes us away from the flow of the presentation. I promise you we'll have time to answer those questions. And I have a session time for this session to do that.
So, what here you see I have a few correct. I have a few mistakes, there's a score I can click retry. And I get to do it-- look how nicely those vocabulary words shuffled back to the bottom of the screen, that's just really nice. And this is a big visual exercise. That actually the first one that the level 1 students will see is very user-friendly. Let's watch, it's your turn.
And if you're wondering, do teachers need to know Canvas? It's always good to know Canvas. But as you can see, just navigating it is not difficult. And whatever you need to learn is learnable.
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- Look at the alphabet page in your book. Work on your book at home. Watch and listen. Look at the alphabet on your paper. When I say a letter, point to the letter on your paper. Point to the letter you hear. Let's spell this word. P-E-N, it's--
- Pen.
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Paul Yung: Look, so the video stops and the student is prompted to interact with these pictures. And once I click Check, it gives me the result and I can continue.
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- Yes, Miguel, it's a pen. B-O-O-K. It's a--
- Book.
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Paul Yung: If I get it wrong, I get a retry. I can try it again. And I can check it again and continue.
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- Yes, OK, here's a long--
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Paul Yung: And here if you're watching this on a nice computer screen, you can make this video full screen and that interactivity will still function very well. So keep in mind this is beginning low, and this is their first experience with this course and it's very visual and interactive. I'm going to go back to Modules. Notice I'm going to Modules, and my entire course is here. And I can choose any one of these items. OK, I'm just working my way down through the course. This is one of the fun exercises for students.
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- 26 letters, each letter is very important. Watch and listen.
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- Yo, (SINGING) A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P.
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Paul Yung: OK, so that's one of the nice features about the beginning of low course. Every episode has a music video that features the vocabulary, or in this case since this is episode one for beginning low it's going to be the alphabet. But every episode has a music video that the students can chant or sing along with, with the life skill vocabulary of that unit.
And after practicing this alphabet, the student has a chance to record their own voice saying the alphabet. So I'm going to go back to the modules, there's a question about the Canvas show, again, we'll talk about that later.
Arrange the letters of the alphabet, let's try that one. So, put the letters of the alphabet in the correct order, start from the left side of the top row. So we have all these letters and they're draggable, they're movable. So I want to but the letters in the correct alphabetical order. And you get to submit your answers here and get a score or try it again. All right, so very, very fun for beginning low.
Let's take a look at-- let's see. Let's take a look at-- write the vocabulary word. Look, these are flash cards. Look at the picture, what is it? It's-- I'm going to type the answer here, book. Pencil. So, there's a great variety of activities that students are engaged in. And they're visual, they're dynamic, there's pictures, there's audio, there's text, there's video, and it's a lot of fun for beginning low students, it's very easy to access.
I'm just going to the left, to go to the entire course, then I go to the right column to get into the individual exercises. So, earlier we had this your turn interactive video. And here is another one.
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- Listen, excuse me, can I have more water, please?
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Paul Yung: So, we'll just skip here. The video is viewed twice, the first time students can just watch it passively to try to process the content of the story, and the video is offered again.
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- Can I have more water, please?
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Paul Yung: With a fill in the blank exercise this time. So the last time we saw an interactive video that was a drag and drop moving the pictures around, now it's text. It's a fill in the blank exercise, a closed exercise.
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- Oh, and how about some coffee, and some of Lucy's pumpkin pie heated with ice cream?
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Paul Yung: OK, I think Miguel doesn't understand, right? So we'll try that one.
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- Your waitress will bring you.
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Paul Yung: OK, so the interactive videos did. It could be dragging pictures and dropping them or text-based grammar exercises. Francesca has as a question. Are these activities part of the original PETW or have you added these? These activities, well, the original had these type of exercises in terms of content. But this interactivity is a feature called H5P that OTAN purchased and integrated with Canvas. And that's what makes this special.
So, it's Canvas with H5P interactivity. Yes, I added these using H5P. OK, all right, we just did that one, OK, let's look at this one, verb to be, OK. The verb to be. And here's a screenshot from the original lesson. If I click on this, I can make this full screen. So this screen, can everyone see the entire screen? Give me a thumbs up or-- OK, great, thank you, Andrea.
So this is a screenshot from the original book. And there's a little instruction here that I've added. And if you scroll through, it's basically a fill in the blank exercise. It's let's see, it is a pen, it is not a book. And students can get immediate feedback. And what if I say she-- I'm just going to-- what happens when we make a mistake? There's an eyeball here, Show Solution. And because it's part of the exercise, there's a learning moment for the student here, the answers is provided.
And we have a chance to try it again. OK, so we provide the answers and that's adhering to the traditional course in the way it was set up, where these exercises where there are predetermined answers. Would have an answer key at the back of the book for students to check their own work because these courses were developed for distance learning, which is a kind of independent study.
So, students were always able to check their answers by themselves for the workbook exercises, not the unit test, however. The unit test we do not provide the answers for the students, but only the teachers will grade the unit test. All right, OK. So Michelle, how do we get it? Like I said, I'll answer that question at the end of the session. OK, so because I want to show you the course. Let's look at the next one. How about questions and short answers?
Again, we have a screenshot from the original book, and now we have multiple choice exercises. So, we've seen drag and drop, interactive video, flashcards, and multiple choice, fill in the blank, there's just a great variety of activities. And look how much fun that is for level 1, that the screen page is not crowded with text and instructions. There's a very elegant interface, and it's easy for level 1 students to process that information.
And look here, a crossword puzzle. OK, this is-- yes, you might have students from some cultures who aren't familiar with that crossword puzzle so you might have to demo this one. Let's see, I'm looking at number one across my address is maybe this is the question, what is your address? OK, so this is one of those where you might have to just introduce your student to the concept of the crossword puzzle across and down, and try to view the number of letters as a clue to what the answer might be.
So I'm going to go back to Modules, and let's take a look at what's in your backpack. OK, so what's in your backpack? So you can already see that this interface is a little different. So what we can gather is that this is not H5P, this is a native Canvas exercise.
And if I click Preview, let me read what this says here on the very top in red. Let me make that a little bit bigger. It says your teacher will grade this exercise after you've completed the unit. So the student will look at this, read the conversation, and the student will respond to this question. What is in your backpack? Write the object that you have in your backpack or bag. So the student will click into the text box and say, I had a book.
So, obviously every student is going to answer this differently depending on the content of their backpack and how fluent they are in English. So therefore, the student will submit the exercise but not see a grade. There would not be a grade here. And this is one of the activities where the teacher will have to come and review it, and enter-- and manually enter a grade for the student.
OK, and good news, there aren't too many of these. Most of these activities are H5P based, and they're-- the assessments, the feedback is automated. So the teacher will be spending more time just helping students understand the lesson instead of the tedious task of grading every exercise in the learning management system.
So again, if you see this in the Preview button, is a sign that is a native Canvas activity, and most likely the teacher will have to come in and grade this personally. So there's a dictation exercise. Click the audio and type the sentence you hear, listen to the audio and write what you hear. Look at the variety, the variety of exercise that are available.
Narrative reading, this is the interesting one. OK, so narrative reading is the comprehension exercise. We know how at the end of every ESL book, at the end of every unit of every ESL book there's usually a narrative, a story that students read and answer comprehension questions on. OK, so this one you can tell. This is a native Canvas exercise, it's not H5P. If I click on Preview, I can see the story here. This is a screenshot from the original book. And I could hear the story read.
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- Unit 1 exercise 15. Carlos Nunez is a student. Carlos Nunez is a student at Main Street Adult School. He's in an English class, his teacher is Mr. Edwards. Carlos' friends are Maria and Luis.
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Paul Yung: So, here's a prompt. Answer the following questions with complete sentences. OK, so I have to write a complete sentence. His last name is Nunez. What's his teacher's name? His name is Mr. Edwards. Instead of saying the school's name is, I'm just going to say, it's Main Street Adult School.
To Michael's question, yes, the learning management system tracks all student activities. I'm going to try to do this whole exercise. Just so you guys can see. There-- Please forgive me, I always get nervous when I type it in front of an audience on Zoom. So, I'm going to click Submit quiz.
And hey, look, I got-- it graded this for me and I had all excellent. And what you see here is additional possible answers. Because I said his last name is Nunez, I could have said Carlos's last name is Nunez. In that case, that would have been correct.
So this is something that was developed-- excuse me. This was a feature that was developed in the original Moodle version of this online course, where for this type of activity we still wanted it to be interactive and allow the learning management system to give the student immediate feedback.
So if we did it the traditional way, we would have just put one answer. But as you know, the student could have said, Carlos's last name is Nunez, or it's Nunez with the apostrophe, the contraction. Or it is Nunez, or Nunez is his last name, these were all correct answers.
So, even an exercise like this which would normally require the teacher to correct, here we're giving students various options. And if they get it wrong, they can come and see what the right answer is and try it again. All right, so that's pretty-- that's pretty cool.
Narrative reading. OK, oh, here's one called the-- OK, what's your name? Do we recognize this? Is this H5P or native to Canvas? Somebody give me an answer in the Chat. OK, no one's typing. Oh, great. OK, Lauren, Andrea, Catherine, you guys get A's for today. Thank you.
So preview. We'll get the same prompt, right? Obviously because everyone's going to type in something different. What is your name? I'm going to say Paul, Catherine is going to say Catherine, and the teacher will come and look at this. So the student is made aware of that with this sentence in red. Look at the number of activities here. And only two of them require teacher grading.
OK. Read and speak. Here's an interesting one. OK, look, read the sentences and questions, Start Course. I'm going to click Start. Push to speak. So I'm going to click this button and I'm going to speak, OK? How are you? Hey, look, I got that right. What is your name? Uh oh. That one was wrong. Show Solution. I said-- Oh, look at that, it told me what I said, this is what you have to say so I want to try it again.
What is your phone number? All right, so that's pretty cool, I like that feature amongst many. So again, the variety of activities, especially for beginning low. Let's take a look at this grammar check and see what that's about. Oh, so here, you're just going to choose the correct sentence. So it a book, that doesn't sound right. My from is El Salvador, that doesn't sound-- oh, she is a teacher, that sounds good.
Choose the correct question, how you are? That doesn't sound right. Where are you from? That sounds right. And the items just slide by after you click the answer. So another fun feature.
OK, so the student completes the exercises and now has to do the unit test. The unit test the students' mastery of the competencies of this unit. OK, so therefore, what is-- Martha Ortega, what is her first name? So if the student chooses the wrong answer, they don't get an option to view the correct answer because it's the unit test. All they can do is retry it. Of course, in this case, it's easy because there's just two options right. The first one is not correct, it's going to be the other one, right?
But so, check. OK, the student does not get the correct answer, has to-- the student has to do it again. OK, so because this is the unit test, again, there's a multiple choice, fill in the blanks, all related to the content of this unit. Also here's a drag and drop, right? So it's basically a verb conjugation exercise of the verb to be.
He is-- look at this activity, where you are dragging words around and the variety is just very, very nice for students. OK, so that's putting English to work 1. I'm just going to go to putting this work 2 really quickly, and just show you some of the main-- it looks the same, the episode one is on top. But you're going to see a lot more of these kind of activities where teachers do have to review. So here we know this is a native Canvas exercise, I'm going to click on Preview.
And these stories are from the book. So the students, Marta and Jose are married and they have a beautiful family. So Marta and Jose are characters in the stories, in the videos. OK, so they watch the Marta and Jose in the video, and now they get to read about them, and they can also hear the audio.
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- Looking for an apartment, part one. Read the stories and answer the questions with complete sentences. Marta and Jose are married and they have a beautiful family. He is a gardener and she is a student.
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Paul Yung: OK, that audio quality is really outstanding. So, students, this just does wonders for comprehension. They see the video, they see the actors play Marta and Jose, they watch this thing. And now they get to read about it, and they can read it and they can hear it, and now they're going to answer these questions.
So they're going to answer it in their own manner. Some students will write grammatically correct answers, some students might not. They might have the same correct content, a few might not, and then these are the kind of exercises that they're putting this to work to teachers will come and correct.
OK, so that ends my demo and I'm going to go back to my presentation slides. And now I am able to answer more of your questions regarding other related subject matter. OK, so I want to open my Chat window so I can see. Is this-- Andrea had a question, is this going to be shared?
Yes, you're going to submit a request, and I'll show you at the very end of the slide how to get this course. You're going to submit a request to OTAN. OK, so I'm going to continue with my slide presentation, feel free to type into the chat and I'll be keeping an eye out for your question.
How do we-- oh, yeah, Michelle, how do we get it? Just wait till the end, I want to give you the email address to make your request. So, of course, there are obstacles, right? Computer, internet access, but someone asked earlier, does it work on a smartphone? It sure does, and Canvas has a great student app for Android and iPhone and it's free.
And they can go to their-- they can access it on any computer at school at their local library, it looks great on all devices. The iPad, smartphone, computer. So, help your student with access, give them options. Show them how to use it on their phone, show them how cool it looks on their phone.
Many of our students are used to teach in downtown Los Angeles, which is near the Lakers-- the basketball, the Lakers stadium. And some of my students worked in Malibu, that's like a two hour bus ride. They can study, students who do this through distance learning can study on the bus with their smartphones.
OK, basic computer skills. So H5P as I showed you is very intuitive, interactive, majority of the exercises are self correcting. You as a teacher are free to help students with their basic computer skills. Typing skills used to be a huge problem but now there are so many free websites to teach people how to type. I think typing.com is probably my favorite one.
OK, self motivation. OK, that's the big challenge. Independent study for anyone. Even for Native English speakers is a challenge. But with H5P I think once you get students started you stay in touch with them, you encourage them, and they see how engaging it is. And especially when they see the progress that they're making in language acquisition, that is going to improve their staff motivation.
And not only that, but together with their digital skills, their digital skills are improving, their English language skills are improving, and that is going to be the key factor. OK, I see Lauren has a question-- compatible.
You know, Lauren, that's a good question. I don't have any experience with screen readers and so therefore, I haven't checked it with a screen reader. You might just want to Google that question later on, OK?
So, the PETW Moodle course was used by a number of teachers across the state, I don't have any exact numbers. But it was hosted on OTAN's Moodle site for about eight years, I believe. And it really gained popularity during the pandemic when it was very-- everyone had to go online.
OK, so some piece of success that I could suggest. Evaluate each student's computer skills. Do not sign a student up and say, OK, here's your username and password and let me know how you like it. No, when a student comes to you and joins your class, sign them up, given their username and password, and say go to that computer right there and give them the information they need to succeed.
Maybe you have a simple list of instructions with the domain name to your school's Canvas site, their username and password, and watch them actually navigate the computer. See how they use the mouse. Are they fluent? When they're entering their passwords, are they typing or are they pecking with their two index fingers? Well, that right away will give you an idea of what that student needs to succeed.
OK, so be aware of that. Evaluate each student's computer skill doesn't mean, hey, how long have you been using a computer? Do you like PCs or Apples? Just watch them. Sit them in front of a computer, give them a simple set of instructions, and see if they're able to log on, OK? And you can respond, after that you can respond accordingly to each individual skill level.
Give them a website orientation. OK, so once you get this site it's likely going to be on your school's Canvas domain, so you're going to have to tell the students how to find the course and how to submit exercises, and go back to the main menu. And this is simple stuff, you can see the way I was doing it, I was moving my cursor to the left to get to the menu, and then to the right to enter each activity. Navigation is just a habit.
So, give students practical and technical support. Technical means sometimes you might have to troubleshoot. OK, if a student is in a normal circumstance accessing the course really well on the cell phone but one day is not able to, is probably because they're just in an area where they're getting low reception.
And so, these are the kind of things you have to ask your student sometimes and help them navigate that. OK, practical support means just like I said, submitting exercises, navigating the course, emailing you, responding to email, OK?
Group support. For me, an online class, you can take advantage of the students who are really proficient and have them work with the other students who are less proficient. You know how a regular ESL class you always have students who are very-- some of them are more advanced and they're more willing and able to help their classmates? So take advantage of that.
The great students who are motivated and at a higher skill level, have them help the ones that are a little bit below level, and they'll be glad to do it. And it helps their self esteem that they're able to assist in the class. And communication, be open to your students, let them know that you're available. Tell them how to reach you. OK, again, do not just give them the login credentials and say, good luck, let me know if you have any questions. Stay in touch with them, keep them motivated.
So this is the challenge to the teachers. We're living in very interesting times but we have 24/7 access to information. And that includes learning. So give your students the opportunity to learn. Any time of the day, any place there at, they could be on the bus, they could be at the laundromat.
Get them into the habit of learning anytime anywhere. By doing that, you're going to prepare them for the future. But we know what's coming, what's coming is more technology, more digital skills in all areas of our lives.
I'm sure some of you have heard of ChatGPT, that new AI software that just was a huge splash that came out like two months ago. People are talking how it's going to just change education, it's going to change even online search. Google is being challenged, we thought their place in online search was solid, but now it seems like their future might be in jeopardy by ChatGPT, and how is all that going to affect education? OK, let's get our students started.
Expand your blended class skills along with your student's learning to secure their future. You will, as well as a teacher because education is changing, we know that. And that's why we're here today at OTAN TDLS, right?
So, to get access. Everybody take a picture of this with your phone. You can just write a simple request to aecanvas@scoe.net, that's basically OTAN. There are only two requirements, that you are a California agency and you use the Canvas learning management system. If you don't, you can talk to your administrator about adapting it, and OTAN will be glad to help you.
So, I can answer any open questions right now, you can feel free to unmute and just speak. And we could talk for a few minutes, OK? Thank you for your time, I'm here to answer any questions you have. Feel free to unmute and just ask me a question.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Paul.
Paul Yung: OK, was that Michael? All right. OK, no questions? All right. OK. Lauren, Lauren had a question. Can individual teachers request access-- of course, we'll just have to see how OTAN responds. [laughs] So, yeah, no, I don't believe it has to be an administrator, but you probably will have to coordinate with your IT person who is managing the learning management system.
So of course, policy is different at every school, your agency, your school might have a policy where as long as the teacher and IT person have a shared goal and the system supports it, it might be OK to install the course. In other agencies, that might require the administrator's approval. You'll have to find out how your school district and those kinds of situations. OK. More questions? Thank you, Francesca. Michelle, where are you from? What school district? What school?
Michelle: Hi, can you hear me?
Paul Yung: Yes, thank you for speaking, I love hearing people's voices.
Michelle: I'm from East Side Adult Ed in San Jose. So, our school has purchased CANVAS license for our students and teachers to use. And I really like the video. And I've been using English to work to our low level students for years, and it works pretty well. I'm glad that they now put it on Canvas. So I would like to expand it to our program, and then introduce it to our teacher to use. But I think probably trainings for our teachers so we can request training.
Paul Yung: Of course, OK, so look what Francesca just posted in the Chat. I'm going to read Francesca's post, OTAN offers a lot of Canvas training. So not only can you get free training on Canvas from OTAN, you can also request specific PETW Canvas-based training. So make your request, and let's get started, all right?
Michelle: OK, thank you very much.
Paul Yung: You're welcome. More questions, we have a few more minutes, OK? [laughs] OK, no promises, but maybe in the fall. The fall, all right? Lauren asked when will PETW 3 be available? All right, so hopefully in the fall. So let's get our students started now with PETW 1, because PETW 1 has 20 episodes, 20 half hour videos and 20 units. That's a lot of content to get through.
PETW 3 has 24 half hour videos and units. Again, a lot of content. So let's get them started now and by the fall, they'll be in level 3. And that's the cool thing about distance learning. If you're taking it-- this is what I've noticed through the years, if you're an ESL student and you're taking level 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, you're bound, your progress is bound and can't then move any faster than the semester system.
But if you're doing distance learning and you're studying online at your own pace based on your own motivation and ambitions, you can be at PETW 3 by next fall and even finish level 1, 2, and 3 by December. Whereas in the semester system it could take up to three years. So let your students know they can accelerate their learning and accelerate their progress. OK, I want to stop talking, more questions, I have two minutes.
So, how many hours is whole course? Traditionally, students earn 10 hours of attendance for completing the entire unit. 10 hours per unit, that means they complete every workbook exercise and they pass the unit test at 80% or better. That earns a student 10 hours of attendance, that's been the traditional metric and it's still used today in distance learning at LAUSD.
Speaker 2: How many units are in the course?
Paul Yung: In putting things to work 1, they are 20, and putting things to work 2 and 3 they are 24. OK, let me just say this. LAUSD invest the money in creating half hour video courses. No one will ever, ever do that again. That is a huge investment.
Today there are many online English courses but they're easy to assemble with throwing together some pictures, recording some audios, writing a few sentence frames as substitution exercises. No one is going to write scripts and hire actors, and cinematographers, and editors, and musicians to score.
So just know how special these courses are and they're classics, they've been around for decades and they've educated millions of people. And in spite of all the money that's out there, no institution will ever invest that kind of money in creating a course today. So please let your students enjoy it and take advantage of it.