Pause for Reflection | Throughout a lecture, particularly after stating an important point or defining a key concept, stop presenting and allow students time to think about the information. After waiting, ask if anyone needs to have anything clarified. Ask students to review their notes and ask questions about what they’ve written so far. | Collaborate Ultra breakout rooms
MS Team breakout rooms
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Triad Groups | Pose a question for each group while you circulate around the room answering questions, asking further questions, and keeping the groups on task. After allowing time for group discussion, ask students to share their discussion points with the rest of the class. | Collaborate Ultra breakout rooms
MS Team breakout rooms
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Group Evaluations | Like peer review, students may evaluate group presentations or documents to assess the quality of the content and delivery of information. | Collaborate Ultra breakout rooms
MS Team breakout rooms
Canvas Discussion Boards |
Hands-on Technology | Students use technology to get a deeper understanding of course concepts. | Any technology learners must learn to use as part of their course. |
Inquiry Learning Activities | Students use an investigative process to discover concepts for themselves. After the instructor identifies an idea or concept, a question is posed that asks students to make observations. | Canvas Discussion Boards
Canvas Studio Videos
Padlet |
Jigsaw Discussion | A topic is divided into smaller, interrelated pieces. Each member of a team is assigned to read and become an expert on a different topic. After each person has become an expert on their piece of the puzzle, they teach the other team members about that puzzle piece. | Collaborate Ultra breakout rooms
MS Team breakout rooms
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Video Discussions | Ask students to comment on a video they are required to watch. | Canvas Studio Videos
Canvas Discussion Boards |
Polls | Use polls to check understanding, gather student opinions, or to challenge students position on something. | Collaborate Ultra Poll (does not keep data)
GoSoapBox
Poll Everywhere
Mentimeter
Slido
H5P |
Video activities | Ask students to respond to a question or a simple research activity with a video. | Canvas Discussion Boards
Canvas Studio Videos
Padlet |
Virtual Field Trips | Ask students to explore a virtual field trip which is a guided exploration through the world wide web that organizes a collection of pre-screened, thematically based web pages into a structured online learning experience. | Several websites available online |
Concept Maps | Use concept maps to visually represent information and concepts. | MS Whiteboards
MindMeister
Mindmup
Canva
Lucidchart
Explain Everything
Padlet |
Think-pair-share | Use TPS to get students to work together to solve a problem or answer a question | Collaborate Ultra breakout rooms
MS Team breakout rooms |
Minute papers | During a brief pause, students alone or in pairs are asked to answer a question in writing about the weekly content. The submitted responses can be used to gauge student comprehension of the material. | Collaborate Ultra breakout rooms
MS Team breakout rooms |
Quizzes | Quizzes can be used at the beginning of a session or after delivery. | Canvas Quiz
Quizlet
Kahoot
Google Forms
MS Forms
H5P
Socrative
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Muddiest Point | The technique consists of asking students to jot down a quick response to one question: “What was the muddiest point in [the lecture, discussion, homework assignment, film, etc.]?” The term “muddiest” means “most unclear” or “most confusing (Vanderbilt University) | Collaborate Ultra
MS Teams |
Real world case studies and problem solving | Students work in groups, applying knowledge gained from lectures or reading materials to a given situation | Collaborate Ultra
MS Teams |
Peer Led Instructions | Have students prepare and present course material to the class. | Collaborate Ultra
MS Teams
Narrated PowerPoint Slides |
Post-It Demonstration | Students provide their thoughts and ideas to a question or prompt on a post-it. | MS Whiteboard
MIRO
IdeaBoardz
Padlet |
Pros and Cons Grid | Get students to list advantages and disadvantages on some issue. | Shared MS Document
Shared Google Document
MIRO
MURAL
MS Whiteboard
CU Whiteboard |
Question-discussion *quescussion | This activity involves the exploration of a topic or concept by asking questions only. | Shared MS Document
Shared Google Document
MIRO
MURAL
MS Whiteboard
CU Whiteboard |
Content Curation | Ask students to curate relevant, meaningful and current resources on a topic. | Wakelet
Padlet |
Strip Sequence | Provide student with the steps to a process in a disorganised way and ask them to reconstruct the proper sequence. | Canvas Quiz
H5P |
Bloom Taxonomy Questioning | Use the verbs remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create to design questions. | TopHat Innovative Activities to Engage Your Students |
Brainstorming/Thinking Techniques | You can use some brainstorming/thinking tools to brainstorm and generate ideas with your students using the templates | Double Bubble Map with perspective
SWOT Analysis
Starbursting
KWHL Chart |