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Dual Campus Breakout Activities
Dual Campus Breakout Activities
Each Thursday, mixed groups from both campuses meet via Zoom breakout groups, google docs, and other technologies. They compare and contrast readings, connecting historical documents with current issues and initiatives through jigsaw activities, google docs and discussions with guest speakers.
We invite guest speakers to attend our class meetings and, most importantly, to participate in our breakout room discussions. Community members who are featured in our readings not only speak to our students about the ways in which they have worked to change their communities through civic engagement strategies, but they complete the same readings and discuss them with our students on both campuses.
Jigsaw Readings
Jigsaw Readings
As part of our dual campus, group-centered class, we frequently employ the jigsaw method in our reading assignments. For days in which we have breakout sessions, groups consisting of two UD-Newark and two UD-Dover students work together on google-doc based activities that require them to analyze a number of readings related to that week’s civic engagement topic. We then assign the readings so that group members on the same campus will read different articles. The breakout sessions and activities then require the students to teach each other the missing material from the readings they were not assigned. Without this cooperation and coordination, the students will not be able to successfully complete the assignment. Moreover, the activity requires the students to make conclusions about the readings as a set and therefore, to push beyond mere summary into directed analysis.
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