Nonverbal feedback in Zoom meetings can be a quick and easy way to gauge the meeting. You can ask your students to show their understanding with a quick “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.” Have you noticed that you could make your Zoom more personal by changing your Zoom reactions’ skin tone? This might help you… Read more »
Graduate Students – Get Ready to Teach at IUB!
Welcome, new Associate Instructors! We know that the Associate Instructors preparing to teach at Indiana University Bloomington have a wide arrange of experiences. Some of you have taught multiple college courses before. Some of you have only the experience of being a student. Some of you have taught K-12 before starting graduate school. Whatever level… Read more »
Quick Tip: Zoom Backgrounds as Icebreakers
If you’ll be teaching an online synchronous class this summer, think about how you could use your Zoom background as an icebreaker and way to build community. For example, you could set your background to a photo related to your research or to the class. Then you can start the class chatting with students about… Read more »
Quick Tip: Allow Extensions to Show Care and Support
As we’ve learned this past year, building community is an important part of an online course. An aspect of building community is projecting care and support. A quick way to do this is to build in opportunities for students to have deadline extensions without having to ask you permission for them. Build in “oops tokens”… Read more »
Quick Tip: An Icebreaker Idea
Need a quick ice breaker for your summer class? Consider using images to which students can relate. Create a PowerPoint slide showing six different images, with a mixture of happier and darker pictures. Ask your students, “which picture best exemplifies how your weekend went?” Or “What picture best exemplifies how you feel about the upcoming… Read more »
Quick Tip: Ask Students to Reflect on their Test Prep
Have you heard of “post exam wrappers” or “test reflections?” These are questions that students complete post-exam in which they reflect on how they prepared for the exam and their performance. I recently watched a recorded session from the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) in which Cristen Dutcher (Kennesaw State… Read more »