Category: Teaching with Teams

Improve and support your use of Teams as a teaching tool.

Active Learning in Online Synchronous Classrooms: Breakout Rooms

Reading Time: 4 minutesConestoga College encourages teamwork and collaboration in diverse groups where students can learn from each other. Small group discussions in person or virtually help promote peer-to-peer interaction, critical reflection, and perspective and content sharing. In this short video, we’ll see an example of how Lauren promotes collaborative work through the breakout room tool in Zoom.  Breakout group sessions may be...

Icebreakers for Your Online Synchronous Classroom

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the era of synchronous online learning, it is important to create a community of learning. Using icebreakers can foster communities, promote positive teacher and student relationships, and lay the groundwork for classroom interaction (Serembus & Kemery, 2020). Studies in pedagogy encourage teachers to use icebreakers in their classes. The following icebreakers are quick and easy to run both in...

Putting Your Best Face Forward in Online Meetings with Students

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe clothing we wear, the setting we present ourselves in, and the camera view have a profound impact on our students’ impressions of us and on how comfortable and respected they feel.    We might ask ourselves the following questions: What is the balance between formal and casual in online meetings? Ben Marder and Sebastian Oliver (2020) at the University of...