by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Getting bored with Discussion boards? Consider having students post to a wiki! A wiki is a website that can be edited by multiple users. Rather than discussion boards, where students reply...
by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Have you ever popped into a breakout room to check on your students, only to find cameras off, everyone muted, apparently using the time for their own purposes, rather than engaging with each...
Google Docs is a great tool to allow multiple students to work on the same shared document. Students can share their thoughts through text, photo collages, word clouds, and drawings in individual breakout rooms and come then come together as a class on a single...
Google Slides is a great tool for promoting students to work together in breakout rooms on a document that is easy to access after coming together as a complete class. For more information on this strategy see Utilizing Breakout Rooms and Online Tools for Student...
The theme of the 2022-23 Innovative Teaching Showcase is “Difficult Conversations.” Explore this resource for great ideas for utilizing difficult conversations in the practice of teaching. When I do introduce [a difficult topic], my students love it because [it]...
by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Group assignments offer one way for students to engage with course content and demonstrate their learning. Collaboration offers an opportunity to students to refine their ideas and receive...
OneNote is a great tool for encouraging students to work together in breakout rooms on a single document that is easy to access after coming together as a class. For more information on this strategy see Utilizing Breakout Rooms and Online Tools for Student...
by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Assistant Professor, English and Creative Writing, WWU If this title caught your eye it may be because, like me, you are an obsessive fan of The Great British Bake Off (GBBO), a show where amateur bakers attempt to wow judges and...
Reconstructing a successful class that was meant to be in-person to fit the new online format can be challenging and intimidating. Someone who has tackled this task and found great success, according to his students, is Dr. Charles Patterson, Professor of Spanish at...
WesternOnline is a resource created by WWU's Outreach and Continuing Education to help build online courses effectively. Learn more about strategies and methods that can help you increase student engagement in online courses--and with any course modality using online...
Last Updated: September 16, 2024 Using digital whiteboards collaboratively with and among students can help them to generate ideas for a discussion, organize thoughts for a project, build a collection of resources, or generate a flow chart. This post includes free,...