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Resources for faculty teaching Online Synchronous (i.e., in Teams)

September 13, 2023

Active Learning in Online Synchronous Classrooms: Padlet

Reading Time: 3 minutesPromoting active participation in class is beneficial for students because they are incorporated into the activities and are contributors to their learning process. Essentially, students obtain and retain more knowledge by doing. It can be challenging to find ways to keep students engaged in these ways when teaching online. Padlet is an innovative tool that can help enhance participation, as...
Categories EdTech for Active Learning/Online Synchronous/Teaching with Teams/Tech-Enhanced Teaching Comments: 0
June 26, 2023

Active Learning in Online Synchronous Classrooms: Mentimeter Word Clouds

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe power of connecting ideas, feelings, and words in class is beneficial for the learning process, it can help clarify understanding and allow students to get a sense of their peers’ reactions to a key topic, and it also has the potential to help students track how their thoughts and feelings about certain course-related themes evolve over time. Mentimeter word...
Categories EdTech for Active Learning/Online Synchronous/Teaching with Teams/Tech-Enhanced Teaching Comments: 0
January 9, 2023

More Ways to Up Engagement in Your Synchronous Online Class

Reading Time: 5 minutesCreating Opportunities for Higher Levels of Engagement Students experience higher learning gains when they are taught through a more interactive classroom (Knight & Wood, 2005). In this first section, find some ideas to consider for structuring higher levels of participation and engagement during your online synchronous Zoom or MS teams class meeting time. Supporting and Managing Class Engagement Levels One...
Categories Effective Teaching/Online Synchronous/Teaching for Learning
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 technique to increase participation and group-based learning. However, pair and group activities can be cumbersome in online synchronous meetings, especially when, as professor, you cannot see all groups and monitor student conversations at the same time...
Categories Effective Teaching/Online Synchronous/Student Engagement & Communication/Teaching for Learning
May 4, 2022

A Quick Checklist for Setting Up the First Class

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a collaborative post brought to you by the Teaching and Learning Consultants. If you are new to teaching and to Conestoga College, you may want to use this quick checklist to prepare yourself for the first class. Please explore Conestoga’s Course Delivery Procedure before your first class. Download a Checklist See the checklist Elan Paulson has created to...
Categories Effective Teaching/Hybrid/In-Person/Lesson & Course Planning/Online Synchronous
November 30, 2021

Two Stories of Testing in the Cloud

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis Faculty Story was co-written by Mariam Raza (Office Administration, Administrative Business Management) and Trish Stevenson (Public Relations). Mariam Raza has 15+ years of business support, executive support, and operational management experience. She joined Conestoga in 2017, teaching in the Office Administration certificate and diploma programs, and later in the Administrative Business Management graduate certificate program. She is a process...
Categories Assessment Design & Development/Online Synchronous/Quality Assessment
November 1, 2021

Proposing, Designing, and Presenting Online – Robotics and Automation Capstone Projects

Reading Time: 3 minutesJohn Tielemans has been full-time with Conestoga College since 1998. With a background in physics and nuclear systems, he brings a strong desire to learn into his teaching. He is proud of watching students grow, excel and succeed from entry into the program through to completion with unique capstone projects. John is proud to be working with such a talented Engineering...
Categories Assessment Design & Development/EdTech for Active Learning/Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Modes of Delivery/Online Synchronous/Quality Assessment/Reflective Practice/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching