Posts Tagged: Undergraduate

The Artistic Office Hour Promotes Personal Student-Faculty Interactions

By: Patrick Cafferty Here’s a detailed description of how I promoted student engagement in the online environment using an alternative form of office hour called the Artistic Office Hour. During the Artistic Office Hour, students and I met weekly using videoconferencing software to color illustrations from discipline-specific coloring books or work on personal art projects,…

Teaching a Flipped, Fully Online Class Using Small Group Work

By: Patrick Cafferty Here’s a detailed description of how I teach a flipped, completely online class where students view pre-recorded minilectures and complete short assignments asynchronously on their own time and work together in small groups on activities during synchronous class time. Cafferty, P (2020, August) Teaching a Flipped, Fully Online Class Using Small GroupWork….

Poll Feature In Zoom

By: Tsepak Rigzin I plan to use poll feature of Zoom, every day, in every class, with one quiz question in different variant forms, as a warm-up call for the Zoom meeting and small discussion talks. Also, would like to use this feature as a mini in-class activity for breakout rooms sessions. This way we…

Scribble with Whiteboard

by: Elena Cholakova Scribble together whiteboard is an app that allows you to write in the score in real-time. You can share the score with the student and enable them to draw in it.

Pediatric Critical Care Course: Collaboration Between Academia and Clinical Practice

by: Jeannie Weston This dynamic interprofessional pilot course involves collaboration between the local children’s hospital and the school of nursing. Through a weekly seminar offering, various perspectives for care are offered through the diverse lenses of child life, physical/occupational therapy, and social work. In addition, speakers with expertise in psychology, nursing ethics, genetics and parenting…

Submit Questions Before Class

By: Cecile Janssens I ask students to submit a question about the required reading materials before class (as a small assignment that counts towards grading). During class, I use these questions to guide conversations. Instead of asking if anyone has a question, I know they all had one, and I select the most relevant/informative for…

Zoom Breakout Rooms

By: Lisa Dillman Zoom has a setting where you can control how long students are giving to return from a Breakout Room. The default is 1 minute. For some of us, e.g. teaching language, it’s useful to have students in pairs/groups for just 2-3 min for a very discrete-point activity, and thus 1 min to…