This workshop is more of an informal discussion group where we aim to pool our knowledge on ways to encourage students to speak up in a Zoom class. There will be a brief (2-3 minutes) introduction and then participants will be asked to share their wisdom. 

Google Docs offers students and instructors the chance to work together efficiently and is a great tool to create engaging activities. In this workshop, participants will be able to experience a live exercise and see how they can speed up their classroom by using collaborative documents.

In this presentation, Prof. Aguiar explains how the best tool an online teacher has is the camera and the body. Using body language and expressions as a way to convey information in the classroom. 

In some ways, Zoom has limited accountability for students. In this workshop, participants will interact with secondary applications (Zoom and Google Docs) that can increase interactivity and accountability for students.

In this workshop, Prof. Shiosaki and Aguiar look at ways to make useful rubrics.

In this workshop, Prof. Sanborn goes over ways to improve the evaluation of student work in your classroom.

here are many excellent ways to engage students in the online classroom. One of the simplest is using a video conferencing software’s “chat” function. This workshop goes into a detailed rationale for using chat in class and a few examples of how it can be encouraged in the online classroom.