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I have been thinking of the importance of culturally responsive teaching. In a sense, it is the same as accepting that different students learn through different mediums. Culturally responsive teaching simply asks me to reflect about that when presenting material, recognizing that the same concept might be introduced in various ways to resonate more completely with my students.
Reflections
Reflections
Where I was.
Where I was.
I must admit I was firmly in the old-school camp of online instructors before this course began. My role was too administrative, and apart from setting up the class material, my activity seemed limited to student questions. Now, I feel like a new day has dawned and I realize that with video, in particular, I can be much more engaged and effective with my students.
Where I am.
Where I am.
Given the experience of this course, I intend to be much more engaged using tools that will improve my instructor presence in my classes. Video, certainly, will be one of the elements I use for that. Also, using the idea behind the UDL, I will increasingly use different methods during the same course in order to allow more students to feel connected, and engaged.
Where I'm headed.
Where I'm headed.
Given how powerful video can be, a little work will be necessary. I have to admit to being not too comfortable with either video or the tools for editing them prior to their use in a class. However, I think with practice and a little daring it can be an effective tool. Moreover, I increasingly realize that video can be effective even if it's not a video of me talking into a camera. Adobe Spark, for example, can be used to create an engaging video that is fundamentally a collection of different elements like slides, music, and audio tracks, all of which simply make presentation of the material more engaging. In the modern world, where students are particularly responsive to communication through various media sources, it is necessary to modernize, if you will, the presentation of my course material.
Examples
Examples
Here is one of the videos I worked on during my Humanizing Online Teaching course.
The following video introduces students to the Business Law 1 course. It gives them some information on my professional background, to establish credibility. It then gives them a brief argument why they should look forward to this class rather than see it as a necessary survey course.
Here is another example of a video I made for my Humanizing Online Teaching course on contract damages and remedies.
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