This resource offers an approach to encourage students to develop a habit of reflection through the use of short weekly video reflections that are shared online.
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This resource shares information about a Visual Contest that invited students across the network to explore how images might help to address the following question: How does freedom of expression change during a pandemic?
This assignment, given in the context of a Social Psychology course, introduces key concepts on the cognitive and emotional roots of prejudice as a setup to a three-class unit, and gives students the opportunities to analyze and integrate information in reading, lecture and video formats, to consider the benefits and limits of different methodologies, and to apply course content to novel situations.
This resource shares an approach to working with students on music composition projects through translating words and brief phrases into melodic building blocks.
The inquiry log is an extended research project that includes a detailed record of the entire process of research and writing, so that students are working towards a final project from the very start of the course.
This excerpt from the modified syllabus for a course on climate change offers an approach to making a discussion-oriented class work in a virtual environment.
These three ways of responding to students are particularly helpful in blended/remote classes.
This extensive list of strategies to build community includes many which apply in blended/remote contexts.
This resource focuses specifically on creating community in online classes.
This resource provides examples of multi-step assignments that work well in blended/remote courses.