This piece of advice stopped me: "Use a regular Orientation Screen." My first thought was, he should say "landscape", because people might not know what "regular" means. Then I read it again - and I realized that what he meant was that people should show the same set of instructions at the beginning of each live session to remind them about what they need and how the online session works. Ah! That makes much more sense. But it made me think about how difficult it is to write precisely. That would be my main criticism of this article; it's written in a way that assumes everyone uses the same terminology ('dissolve the screen', 'tracking tool', ' register checklist', 'cold calling', 'whole-class correctness', 'sync and a-sync lessons', etc.). Now most of this I can figure out from the context, but in general it's better to write more descriptively, especially in an international context. Don't use names for things, use descriptions. Otherwise, I though the author made a lot of sense. Via Mike Taylor.
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