Category: Online Synchronous

November 7, 2024

Teaching in Teams

Reading Time: 5 minutes At Conestoga, some Faculty may use Teams to teach their courses. This post aims to support you in the initial stages of learning to use...

Categories Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech For Teaching/Zoom or Teams

March 27, 2024

Facilitator Notes for the Academic Team

Reading Time: 3 minutes A guest co-authored post from Instructional Designer Amber West, Online Learning Centre, on the benefits and practice of using facilitator notes.

Categories Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Teaching

September 19, 2023

Teaching in Zoom

Reading Time: 4 minutes At Conestoga, many faculty use Zoom to teach their courses. This post aims to support you in the initial stages of learning to use Zoom...

Categories Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech for New Faculty/Tech For Teaching/Zoom or Teams

September 13, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Padlet

Reading Time: 3 minutes Promoting active participation in class is beneficial for students because they are incorporated into the activities and are contributors to their learning process. Essentially, students...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

July 6, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Annotate

Reading Time: 3 minutes Opportunities to share reactions, expressions, and ideas are vital to the creation of a rich learning environment and classroom community. Even when classes are conducted...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

June 26, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Mentimeter Word Clouds

Reading Time: 2 minutes The power of connecting ideas, feelings, and words in class is beneficial for the learning process, it can help clarify understanding and allow students to...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

June 26, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Whiteboards

Reading Time: 2 minutes Most of us are familiar with using whiteboards in classrooms to explain a topic, highlight key ideas, or to allow students to contribute collaboratively; much...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching/Zoom or Teams

March 27, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 4 minutes Conestoga College encourages teamwork and collaboration in diverse groups where students can learn from each other. Small group discussions in person or virtually help promote...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech For Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

January 9, 2023

More Ways to Up Engagement in Your Synchronous Online Class

Reading Time: 5 minutes Creating Opportunities for Higher Levels of Engagement Students experience higher learning gains when they are taught through a more interactive classroom (Knight & Wood, 2005)....

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

October 25, 2022

Getting Students to Participate in Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 7 minutes “[B]reakout rooms do not always magically create engagement and higher levels of learning.” (Saltz & Heckman, 2020, para. 16) Breakout groups are used as a discussion...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Group Work/Online Synchronous/Teaching