When the physical campus closed at the start of Semester 1, many staff were faced with the challenge of delivering or redesigning their lab classes for virtual, remote teaching. In a very short space of time, teams across the college
Educational technologies
Solutions Lab 12 – Providing rich & quality feedback via OneNote
Evidence shows that students and teachers can benefit from providing real time feedback. Teachers can instantly identify knowledge gaps and provide more emphasis on topics where it is needed. Real-time feedback informs the student on the current task whilst also
Introducing Microsoft Teams
During semester 1, 2020 a few courses used Teams to support students during the transition to online learning as a way to promote and support collaboration. Teams offers some advantages over both Canvas and Collaborate Ultra, in that it allows
How do you engage students with their readings?
One of the perennial issues in education is how to encourage students to engage with their readings. Often, students do not complete set readings or do not understand the connections between weekly readings and course learning outcomes. This results in
Collaborative Reading – Working together to increase the impact and value of reading.
You may remember Harry Potter having an annotated potions book in the Half-blood prince. The side notes and extra tips provided helped him master complex potions, and avoid common mistakes. Imagine if you and your students could transform readings share
Solutions Lab 9 – Piazza: Collaborative Q & A forum for students & teachers
Piazza is a free online question and answer application that students can collaboratively work on answers by adding, modifying or deleting content. Teaching staff can view students’ questions and answers, post their own questions and answers and endorse the best
Using podcasts in your course: Getting started
The following recording is from the “Using podcasts in your course: Getting started” webinar conducted by Natasha Taylor and Lisa Curran, producers of the Open Classroom series. During this session participants were taken through the processes for making a podcast
Engaging students through online activities
Solutions Lab 4 – Using Flipgrid (Video Discussion Board)
“Fipgrid is a great tool to assist in engaging the entire class in discussion” – Nic Connelly What is Flipgrid? Flipgrid is a great tool to engage the entire class in discussion, and allows all students to view each others
