Zoom: Teach Online Class Sessions | IT@UMN | The people behind the technology Synchronous class sessions, in which everyone logs in to a web conferencing system at a pre-scheduled time, are one way to create engagement and foster community in your fully online courses. In a synchronous session, you use a web-conferencing software and invite all your students to join in at a pre-scheduled time. The University's web conferencing software is Zoom. In this article: Preparing for Your Zoom Meeting Zoom will work best if you make some key decisions and develop Zoom fluency before inviting students into an online meeting. Choose the best session format Zoom offers webinars and meetings. If you are in the HCC/BAA and need to attend or host a meeting that requires authentication, you are required to complete a brief training about HCC requirements in order to be able to sign in and access the meeting. Set up your hardware It is possible to conduct an online class session with nothing more than a screen and a microphone. Install the correct software Learn more about Zoom Notes:
The COVID-19 online pivot The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen many universities closing campuses and shifting learning online. It’s unprecedented and suddenly puts ed tech front and centre in a way it hasn’t been before. For those of us who have been doing online learning or distance ed for a while it can seem a bit irritating to have been seen as second class for so long and then suddenly deemed worthy of interest. It’s interesting seeing all the unis that disparaged distance ed as not proper suddenly being converted to the benefits of online education— Martin Weller (@mweller) March 7, 2020 It was kinda snarky, but I’ll come to it later. So I’m seeing a lot of “oh so now online learning is where it’s at?” So, in the interest of pulling together, I’m splitting this post into two parts, the (possibly) useful bit, and the moany bit. The (possibly) useful bit It will be tough for lots of academics to teach online if they have little or no experience of it. Good luck! The moany bit
How to create a free Doodle poll - in minutes! You can easily create a Doodle poll in minutes and send it off to your participants to let them choose the best time to meet. You can create Doodle polls for more than just meetings and scheduling; you can also use them for surveys, questionnaires or to book appointments. You can get started now and try it out for yourself or read on for more awesome information. Create a Doodle poll We’ll walk you through the basics of creating Doodle polls in this article: How to create a Doodle poll? 1. 2. If you’ve connected your calendar with Doodle, you can see your appointments as you’re creating the Doodle. 3. 4. Are Doodle polls free? Creating Doodle polls is, indeed, free. Not only is it easier to send invitations when you’ve registered a free account with Doodle, but certain bits of information that are required when making each free poll are automatically entered for you, such as your name and email address. Can Doodle polls be anonymous? Yes, they can! How long does a Doodle poll last?
How can I use podcasts and videos? – Assessment for Learning at King's About podcasts and videos. How does it align with the module learning outcomes? Does it assess skills and knowledge that are key to the discipline? Consider whether podcasting and video can allows students to meet the learning outcomes. Will it be formative or summative? Podcasts and videos work well in classes where students are involved in longer projects and research or exploring a topic throughout a module. If you want to focus on the process of producing the podcasts as well as assessing it as a finished product, you could provide students opportunities to complete formative tasks which then build to the holistic summative assessment, integrating feedback and continuous assessment. Malisius suggests setting a video or podcast assignment at level 4 when students have time to become familiar with a new type of assessment in a formative situation. How will I mark it? You should carefully consider the weighting for the technical aspects of the podcast/video vs the content.
Creative Methods of Assessment in Online Learning - Center for Teaching and Learning | Wiley Education Services Typically when students and instructors hear the word assessment, they think of a long, arduous exam (or a long, repetitive night of grading!). However, an assessment can be any task or activity that evaluates students’ progress toward your course’s learning outcomes. Traditional examples include papers, projects, reflective journals, group work, quizzes, and much more. Capitalize on digital resources. Students in your online course will be sitting in front of one of the most powerful tools for knowledge collection and creation: a computer. For example: In an exercise science course, the instructor asks students to critically evaluate free online nutrition and fitness tools and explain which they’d recommend and why based on what they’ve learned in class. Aim for authenticity. Many online students ask the question, “How will this material help me in the workforce?” For example: Use students’ environments and experiences. For example: Incorporate collaboration.
COVID-19 – Experimental Humanities 2019 There are many formats and approaches to assigning open-ended creative final projects. The example below brings together critical making and analytical writing, and integrates a multi-stage process that includes a proposal phase, an online exhibition that the whole class can view and comment upon (this may be developed as a separate assignment once they are all uploaded to a course website or learning management system), and a critical statement/essay. Instructors are encouraged to provide feedback at the proposal stage, either in writing or in one-on-one meetings, as this is a key moment to help guide students as they think through and develop their projects. In addition to or in place of the proposal, instructors can build in a “draft” and “feedback” stage of the final project, even if you are not able to have students share their drafts in class. Sample assignment: To create your project, choose a medium in which you have some measure of technical expertise and which fits your topic.
Sharing, collecting, discussing: All possible with Padlet | ACERT Do you ever feel that students might benefit from seeing each other’s work? Do you wish to make it easier for students to share their work with their classmates? Where do you ask students to post ideas and collect resources so that everyone in the class can see them? What is Padlet and how does it work? Padlet is an easy-to-use tool for sharing, collaborating, making lists, and posting notes. Notes can be organized side by side, in sequential order, under column headings or connected with arrows. walls can be linked from Blackboard courses or embedded into content areaswalls can be copied and reused for a different class or activitywalls can be password-protected if privacy is a concernposts can be added using a computer, mobile device or phoneposts can be moderated by the owner and released for publication at a later date Who is using Padlet at Hunter? Prof. For an in-person course in Gender Studies, Prof. The staff at the Center for Online Learning also uses Padlet extensively.
Teaching with GoogleDocs | GradHacker Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University. You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge. Welcome to another entry in our loosely-defined-yet-still-exciting teaching with technology series. Our previous entries in this series include my posts on Teaching with Tablets, Teaching with Twitter, and Teaching with Blogs, Carleen Carey's Teaching Tools for the Tech Savvy TA, Ashley Wiersma's 3 Ways to Hack your Class with Google+, and Andrea Zellner's I'm a Digital Grad in a Digital World. One of the most important tools in my classroom pedagogy, regardless of the course I am teaching, is GoogleDocs. What is GoogleDocs? GoogleDocs (a part of GoogleDrive) is a set of cloud-based collaborative softwares, including a word processor, an image editor, spreadsheet and presentation software, and survey platform. Why Should I Use GoogleDocs? There are a number of reasons why GoogleDocs are a useful part of your classroom toolkit: GoogleDocs are easy to use.
Moodle Our public copyright licenses incorporate a unique and innovative “three-layer” design. Each license begins as a traditional legal tool, in the kind of language and text formats that most lawyers know and love. We call this the Legal Code layer of each license. But since most creators, educators, and scientists are not in fact lawyers, we also make the licenses available in a format that normal people can read — the Commons Deed (also known as the “human readable” version of the license). The Commons Deed is a handy reference for licensors and licensees, summarizing and expressing some of the most important terms and conditions. The final layer of the license design recognizes that software, from search engines to office productivity to music editing, plays an enormous role in the creation, copying, discovery, and distribution of works. Searching for open content is an important function enabled by our approach.
Teach from Anywhere Schema and Fairies Schemas are one of those things that divide practitioners, like fairies at the bottom of the garden. You either believe in them and are in absolute awe at how amazing they are, or you just don’t believe they exist. It’s really interesting when you discuss this with people and it’s extra exciting when a ‘non-believer’ suddenly says “That describes my key child exactly!!” But first of all, let’s explore what a schema is. Athey (2007) defines schema as ‘patterns of behaviour and thinking in children that exist underneath the surface feature of various contents, contexts and specific experience’ (page 5). For example, for a child with a transporting schema, carrying (transporting) objects is the most important or engaging part of their play. Typically, a ‘transporter’ will pack everything into bags, prams or buckets and carry them around the setting. There are many different identified schema. So far, so good. But why hasn’t everybody else spotted these and made the connections?
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