This episode from Catlin Tucker's podcast The Balance features an interview with Rachelle Dene Poth in which they talk about the importance of prioritizing relationships in education, among other topics. It's a 48-minute episode, but the relationship discussion is from 8:15 to 11:30. (May 2020)
How to Design Effective Online Group Activities (written for higher ed but the best practices are highly applicable to 7-12)
Complete one of the options below. When finished, copy your work into your portfolio for submission. (Here is how to create a portfolio.)
Option 1: Explain how you will set norms next school year. Will you involve students or write your own? How will you approach designing your norms given a distance learning environment? You can write this explanation, record a short video (no more than 2 minutes), create a drawing or graphic, or use some other tool.
Option 2: Choose a classroom discussion strategy and build an actual discussion you can use the first week of your class--use either Padlet, Flipgrid, google written discussion, etc. Explain your goal for this discussion and add the link into your portfolio.
Option 3: Record a video in which you create a welcome message to your new classes.
Option 4: How might you introduce the concept of digital citizenship in online learning to your students? You can write this description, record a short video (no more than 2 minutes), create a drawing or graphic, or use some other tool.