{"id":2123,"date":"2020-04-07T13:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T17:10:04","slug":"transitioning-from-classroom-to-online-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/2020\/04\/07\/transitioning-from-classroom-to-online-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitioning From Classroom to Online Instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginner language labs are best done synchronously, says Assistant Professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/homepage\/131\/russian\">Russian<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/site\/custom_scripts\/dc_faculty_profile_index.php?fac=deblasia\">Alyssa DeBlasio<\/a>, because real-time interaction is paramount to building conversational skill. Her Russian-department colleagues assessed each course individually to determine the digital methods that best fit students\u2019 needs. While some classes meet via videoconference\u00a0at their previously scheduled times, others split into smaller conversation groups. Students preparing to study in Russia next year also meet synchronously online\u2014not only to maintain conversational proficiency\u00a0but also to retain the friendships and network they\u2019ll rely on while studying abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Students in Iza Savenkova&#8217;s Russian class can see each other while also accessing assignments:<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2020\/04\/russian_class_example_with_assignment.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/files\/2020\/04\/russian_class_example_with_assignment-300x163.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginner language labs are best done synchronously, says Assistant Professor of Russian\u00a0\u00a0Alyssa DeBlasio, because real-time interaction is paramount to building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4094,"featured_media":2125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[239294,239293,1877],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-language-labs","tag-online-classes","tag-russian","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}