Cool Tech Tools for Your Online Classroom

Instructors and trainers of interpreters need to have skills and tools to facilitate students’ learning and enable their students to achieve the learning goals of the training program or workshop. This is true in all learning environments, including online and remote classrooms.  In this webinar, the presenters will provide trainers of interpreters with strategies and tools that promote effective learning in remote classrooms. In turn, webinar participants will actively explore how to effectively use and implement technology in their own remote teaching environments. 

Note: This webinar topic will be most useful for trainers, educators, and instructors of interpreters.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will:

• Explore tools for engagement in online teaching and learning
• Identify backward design basics to develop clear learning objectives for any
  given training
• Learn more about participant-centered learning

About the Presenters:

Bridget Yaden, Ph.D.

Dr. Bridget E. Yaden is the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, where she has taught Spanish language and linguistics as well as World Language and ELL theories and methods courses for 26 years. She regularly supervises pre-service teachers and gives workshops for continuing teachers on topics including technology integration and online teaching and learning. She was the 2020 president of ACTFL and is the current Executive Director of the Pacific Northwest Council for Languages.