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,…
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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….
Combining Google Docs and Zoom breakout rooms for interactive activities
By a) providing a shared document that can be edited by all students, b) putting students into breakout rooms, and c) having them work on different parts of the document (e.g. Google Slides with Activities 1-4 for breakout rooms 1-4), you can allow students to work together to review content and compile notes. Pros- the…
Poll Everywhere
By: Susan Smith Having a group answer questions, I would recommend an app called Poll Everywhere. This app can be utilized to have the group answer anything from M Choice to open ended questions anonymously. You can then display the answers and discuss how the group answered. One of the other features on Zoom that…
How to create your own home teleprompter
By: Astrid Eckert How to create your own home teleprompter (by Yair Minzker, Princeton)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcSnmnguGdE&feature=youtu.be
Using Zoom annotations for collective writing feedback
By: Hannah Nicol I teach writing, and one approach that works well for any sort of editing or writing feedback task is inviting screen annotations. My students have never been more engaged than when they can decorate my screen with scribbles, symbols, and colors to describe the changes they’d like to see in a writing…
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…
Virtual Open Office
By: Regine Haardoefer To replicate my open-door policy, I instituted a virtual open door. In pre-COVID times, the students would know that I’m open to interruption if my door was ajar or open. To mimic this, when I was open to interruption, I sent an email to all the students in my class and those…
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…
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…
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