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Course: Social Class & the Environment (WRPR/ENVS0210), a Human Ecology cognate in ENVS and a college writing course (CW) Idea: The creation of a textbook for the course; this is the core of the course. What’s needed: Scalar: knowledge of the tool to be able to instruct students on how to use different options when more… »
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This exercise is designed to bring students to the center of learning early in the semester and to give them the experience of working with others. It also seeks to contribute to the learning goals of oral presentation and collaboration. For example, in a seminar about cities, students paired up early on to collaborate and more… »
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To promote student engagement in course materials in a mostly-asynchronous course, I developed a framework of “Weekly Engagement Activities” that provide multiple flexible opportunities for students to demonstrate their engagement. This is the language used to describe the framework: Each week, students have multiple ways to demonstrate their engagement with the course. Most of these more… »
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Assign students to record a brief-self introduction using FlipGrid (or the Canvas media tool) for the first week of class. The instructor should also do the same. The assignment acts as an icebreaker and can help to build a sense of community in the classroom. This idea was used for the online General Chemistry Laboratory more… »
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The Main Idea: There are many reasons you may want assign students to groups rather than letting them form their own group. Here I suggest one way to assign students to groups and pairs that encourages them to meet new people, but also tries to avoid common complaints and pitfalls of random group/partner assignments. I more… »
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For teaching a class using the Stata statistical package, I typically assign problem sets in which students have to answer multiple questions by working with a particular dataset. To lower student stress, make deadlines flexible, and offer ongoing feedback, I decided to change a problem set into a “scavenger hunt.” I distributed the first question more… »
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Sometimes, students come into the classroom and there isn’t much difference in their views; either they don’t know the situation well or they adhere to the “conventional wisdom.” In my class on humanitarian relief, I do case studies of response (Somalia, Kosovo, Rwanda), each lasting 2 weeks. Each case study ends with an in-class debates. more… »
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Group Projects are an exciting and engaging way to both drive and assess student-learning while building community in our classrooms. However, assigning a group grade for one or more major assessments in a course can elicit anxieties on behalf of both the instructor and the students. Did every student meet the learning objectives? Did students more… »
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The Problem: iPad as a screen source is not an option within Panopto Currently, Panopto does not give a direct option to use an iPad screen source when making recordings. This means that if you want to record a video that utilizes your iPad screen, you will have to do some alternative configuring. Here are more… »
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Zoom Icebreakers At the start of your very first class, when students are just getting to know each other, you might consider several different techniques to organize Zoom-based icebreakers which can serve the dual purpose of helping learners to get to know one another while also familiarizing students with some key Zoom features. You can more… »
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One of my main goals in my courses is to prepare students to be better at presenting information to a particular audience. Communications skills are always “more important than ever.” I find our majors often lack experience in verbal presentations of the sort I do all the time professionally, and my friends out of academia more… »
