Collage
Classroom Space: Web-Enhanced, Hybrid, Online
Blackboard Tools: Discussions, Blogs, Wikis
Other Tools: PowerPoint, SharePoint, Keynote
A collage project can be created utilizing any slide-based software where participants can insert images and text onto a slide. As an icebreaker, traditionally in a face-to-face classroom, participants are asked to bring in an 8 ½ x 11 or poster size document with various items cut from newspaper and magazines or drawn on to the paper. Participants are asked to choose pictures of people, places and ideas that visually represent them. In online environments, this same assignment can be done using slide based software or depending on availability for student, a drawing app or software.
About Me Surveys
Classroom Space: Hybrid, Online
Blackboard Tools: Survey Tool
Other Tools: Google Survey
Generate a list of questions for students about their academic interests, and how they learn. Ask them to complete the survey within the first week of class. Utilze the data for enhancing your personal teaching facilitation. If results will be shared, acknowledge to students that this will not remain private and to consider level of sharing.