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Lunch & Learn Series: Showing up to the First Day of Classes with Adrian Granchelli

August 28, 2020

Summary:

What Can an Ice Breaker Exercise Achieve?

  • Test video/audio capability
  • Introduce course content
  • Exhibit what past knowledge a student is bringing
  • Identify the questions that students hope to find answers for
  • Help build the learning community to help them feel more connected
  • Set the tone for the class
  • Class introductions

Introductory Activity Brainstorm:

  • Change your user-name to reflect your content you would like explore
  • Discussion post
  • Recipe card with drawing
  • Post a photo and small sentence describing an important place for their teaching and learning
  • Zoom annotations
  • Can create a scale to check where people are sitting
  • One word answers for the chat
  • Snowball – give someone a private message
  • Give food product to groups to explore the history
    • Students can summarize it on powerpoint
  • Use of breakout rooms
  • Fill out a form/questionnaire

Teaching style refers to

actions and contributions

of the teacher in the classroom that students

may intuitively respond to

Teacher Presence:

How to establish a Teacher Presence

Divided into 3 categories by Vaughan et al (2013) – Teaching in Blended Learning Environments:

Design & OrganizationFacilitationDirect Instruction
“Setting curriculum & methods”Simple to navigate course Easy to use tools, technology and activities …

“Shaping constructive exchange”Starting discussionsIntroducing comments on discussions to build more critical discourse or bring in a different idea Encouraging student-to-student or student-to-content engagement…“Focusing and resolving issues”Lecturing via synchronous or asynchronous videoAuthored content (even on a Canvas page)Audio clipsFeedback …

The importance of Audio Quality

Connect with The Learning Centre to make sure that you have the right technology and that it is set-up and functioning properly.

Establishing a Communication Policy:

Tags: Best Practices, Online Teaching
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