Category: Discussion-based

Personal Amplification Device

ITS can provide small, portable voice amplifiers (PAs) for use in classrooms. These PAs are lightweight, easy to use, and rechargeable. Please fill out the Portable Voice Amplifier Request Form to have one delivered. Contact your AIA to explore other solutions. Quick and Easy Solution ITS will provide a small PA to anyone who would like help with amplifying their...

Categories Discussion/Discussion-based/Lecture/Practice-based/Presentations/Synchronous/Uncategorized

Hybrid Teaching Outdoors

If you’re planning to hold a class outside, keep in mind that the outdoor setting presents unique and often unanticipated technological challenges. After reserving your outdoor space, perform a wifi and setup check. Contact your AIA to help with planning and troubleshooting. They can consult with you remotely, and/or meet you in your outdoor classroom in advance of your first...

Categories Discussion/Discussion-based/Format/Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Mode/Practice-based/Synchronous

Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

If you’ve added readings and assignments to Perusall for past courses and want to reuse them for new classes, you’re in luck: there’s a straight-forward process to copy materials from one course to another. It can even preserve your assignment links on Moodle, given a little bit of elbow grease. The trickiest part is remembering the right order of operations....

Categories Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based

Using Groups in Perusall

Overview In Perusall, you can organize students into groups that limit whose comments they see. This can be useful when you have a large class and want to reduce the volume of annotations any single student is seeing, or if you want to create smaller cohorts where students might assume certain roles (skeptic, synthesizer, etc.) as readers and responders. You...

Categories Asynchronous/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

Engineering Student Collaboration and Group Work

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.

Categories Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

RefWorks

RefWorks allows you to both manage citations in a personal-to-you database and annotate PDFs asynchronously.

Categories Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based/Practice-based

Slack

You can use Slack to create a communal workspace where users can chat or share documents and links.

Categories Asynchronous/Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work/Synchronous

Google Slides Presentations with Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere allows users to embed interactive components into a Google Slides presentation. Use this how-to to learn how to create a Google Slides presentation with an embedded Poll Everywhere component!

Categories Discussion-based/Lecture/Polling/Presentations/Synchronous