Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base • sarahlw

2 Teaching Idea Responses

Content & Activities Type

Where are you local? icebreaker

January 25, 2021 • Response for Zoom Ice Breakers for the Virtual Language Class Teaching Idea

This winter term, instead of asking students where are you from, we used the prompt where are you local? as an ice-breaker, inspired by Taiye Selasi’s TED talk, Don’t Ask Where I’m From, Ask Where I Am a Local in which she problematizes the notion of being from a place, and of home. We found more... »

https://tlkb.middcreate.net/response/where-are-you-local-icebreaker/

Interaction & Collaboration Type

Where are you local? icebreaker

January 25, 2021 • Response for Zoom Ice Breakers for the Virtual Language Class Teaching Idea

This winter term, instead of asking students where are you from, we used the prompt where are you local? as an ice-breaker, inspired by Taiye Selasi’s TED talk, Don’t Ask Where I’m From, Ask Where I Am a Local in which she problematizes the notion of being from a place, and of home. We found more... »

https://tlkb.middcreate.net/response/where-are-you-local-icebreaker/

Assessment & Feedback Type

Audio alternatives

November 3, 2020 • Response for Recording Video or Audio Feedback (Instead of Written) Teaching Idea

I’ve done this too but using audio instead of recording a video – it’s even easier for me to record right on my phone, and then upload that file to Canvas as part of the feedback, or send to the student.

https://tlkb.middcreate.net/response/audio-alternatives/