Posts Tagged ‘resources’

Creating Virtual Student Introductions

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Whether you are teaching a face-to-face or an online course, you will want to create a sense of community for your students. Typically, the first day of a face-to-face class is spent reviewing the course goals and syllabus as well as doing introductory icebreaker activities. You can use one of two online tools – Voicethread or Glogster – to create this interactive icebreaker activity.

Finding the Early Adopters

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Before you begin any initiative, it is important that you have the support of other faculty and the IT support group, if you have one. Any type of change will be initially met with some type of resistance. The best way to combat this resistance and increase chances for success is to identify and develop a group that I refer to as the “early adopters.”

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