Many of us are wondering how we are going to build a sense of community in our classrooms, labs, student organizations, residence halls, etc., given the constraints of the remote and physically distant environment. Use the resources in this guide to learn how to encourage community in your online course and minimize students’ feelings of isolation.
This slideshow presentation by Melissa Fletcher provides information and resources for faculty on how to create a responsive, accessible, and supportive learning environment for their students.
Leah Witus shares the programs she uses to record and edit her lectures, as well as a clip of one of her video lectures for her Biochemistry course.
The brief video covers how to get Microsoft Office applications (like Powerpoint or Excel) installed on an iPad using your Macalester credentials. These Office apps are especially useful if you’re using your tech kit to annotate slideshows or other documents, either for making recordings, or during synchronous class meetings.
There are many ways to share your short lectures, and the process may vary depending on a number of factors, including what kind of content you’ve made, the device you’ve made it on, and even where your remote students are based. This how-to offers a basic walkthrough of the process for our recommended option, as well as a few notes on alternatives.
Xavier Haro-Carrión shares the assignment prompt and project examples from his course GEOG/LATI 249: Environment and Society in Latin America, for which his students created podcasts.
Knox College colleague Eric Dickens, in collaboration with his colleague Cate Denial, also from Knox, facilitated a session focused on student collaboration and group work. Watch the ACM workshop and use the additional resources to learn how to encourage remote student engagement and collaboration.
The full Tech Kit Workshop Recording is now available. You will need a Macalester username and password to access it.
The iPad and Apple Pencil, two tools that come in the tech kit, enable teachers to provide handwritten feedback to students. Watch this video to learn how to grade assignments using the iPad, Apple Pencil, and Moodle’s built-in PDF grader.
For those who do not have access to a scanner, use the resources in this guide to learn which mobile applications to use to scan and share documents.
