In this Issue: Active Learning Ideas
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- How-To Promote Peer to Peer Participation Online
- Did you know… Panopto has Discussion and Quiz Tools?
- Dig Deeper: Dozens of Active Remote Teaching and Online Learning Ideas
- Upcoming Workshops: GMCTL and ICT
- DEU Support and Contact Information.
How-To Promote Peer to Peer Participation Online
Remote teaching and learning does not need to be a self-isolating experience for your students. Although we’re all working from home and keeping our distance there’s no reason we can’t work together. In this post we’ll give you few ideas and tools to get students interacting with peer to peer activities and supports.
Click here for some online ideas for peer to peer activities.
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Did you know… Panopto has Discussion and Quiz Tools?
The supported video tool at USask is Panopto. You can use this tool to create lecture videos, demo videos, podcasts, student video assignments and a whole lot more. But did you know Panopto allows you to embed interactive content right in the video? Here’s a few ways you can create interactive content in your course videos and promote active learning opportunities for your students.
Discussions on Panopto videos – https://support.panopto.com/s/article/How-to-Use-Discussions-in-Videos
Add quiz questions to any Panopto video – https://support.panopto.com/s/article/How-to-Add-a-Quiz-to-a-Video
Dig Deeper: Dozens of Active Remote Teaching and Online Learning Ideas
Not enough ideas for you? Check out this amazing collection of Online Active Instructional Activities on the University of Illinois ION Professional eLearning resource site. This is a great resource with all the information you need to get these strategies working in your online or remote learning course. Some notable ideas included in this list, which are often seen as challenging in online courses, include: art projects, field work, lab experiments, debates and more.
https://www.uis.edu/ion/resources/instructional-activities-index/
Upcoming Workshops
Remote Teaching Essentials: GMCTL
Are you looking for more support with remote teaching? Our TLSE partners, GMCTL, have some upcoming workshops that might be just what you’re looking for in May and early June. Check their events page here for details – https://teaching.usask.ca/events/courses-and-workshops.php
ICT Training and Development
Don’t forget to check ICT Training and Development to get the technical help you need getting started with new learning technologies. Check out their Current Offerings page for details. https://training.usask.ca/