Building Community through Collaborative Presentations early in the semester

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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… »

Classroom Introductions

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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… »