CI Online: In the beginning...

This year I am embarking on yet another new journey. You can read the details that I'm willing to share on my social media, but what is relevant here is that I am teaching Latin again, but online and part-time. I am teaching Latin in a course that is already written, so I provide extra support and hold a weekly live class. I am also teaching a weekly Spanish class for novice learners. This class meets once a week as well and has no outside expectation of individual work or course materials other than what I create.

When I started teaching here (and to be fair I'm only 3 months in), I knew I wanted to bring what I regularly do (and I think I'm good at) to the course: Comprehensible Input. I don't have it all figured out yet, but I am starting to see some areas of my own expertise that need to be refreshed or adapted to my current  environment and some areas that feel like obstacles or struggles. In this post I briefly want to lay the biggest ones out and set a plan to research, learn, and practice before posting again about them. 

Latin Class

1. The weekly class sessions are optional. Sometimes one or two students attend, sometimes no one attends. How do I bring CI into a digital class session when no one attends regularly?
2. How can I marry what the course expects with what I know works? 
3. What is participation like?
4. What are activities that transition really well and easily into a digital class?
5. What ways can I adapt activities that I used in my physical classroom to the online classroom?

Spanish Class

1. I know what pace to expect in my physical Latin and ESOL classrooms. How will my pace differ here?
2. What digital elements can I use to make class more seamless and spend more time with CI?
3. How can I use brain breaks meaningfully?
4. What activities do I want to use, but am afraid to use and how can I work them in?