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Ekaterina Galimova – The International Virtual-Discussion

This activity demonstrates a strategy to engage students in conversations about the humanities beyond just a single campus.

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Whole Class Synchronous Discussion

This resource offers some helpful tips for facilitating online discussions.

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Student-Generated Questions Assignment

This assignment invites students to create questions based on a shared reading and then respond to each other’s questions.

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Online Annotated Bibliographies

By outlining an online annotated bibliography activity, this resource shares an alternative way to engage students in reading, evaluating, and discussing primary and secondary sources.

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Listen and Visualize Activity

This close reading activity models active listening while also engaging students through investigating a text by adding images.

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Know, Want to Know, Learned Activity

This resource offers a structured activity that is useful when encouraging students to work collaboratively and ask probative questions when responding to texts of any kind.

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Discussion Literature Resources Seminar Practices Writing

IWT Practices Online

This resource offers a range of examples of how IWT’s writing-based teaching strategies can be translated for the online or blended learning environment.

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Ways to Blend Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning

This resource shares some ideas for how to engage students both synchronously and asynchronously.

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Experimental Humanities – Assignments COVID-19 Response 2020

This resource, from the Center for Experimental Humanities, offers a range of activities and assignments designed with the challenges of teaching at a distance in mind.

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Dialectical Notebook

This Dialectical Notebook activity invites students into a sustained written conversation about a topic, text or series of texts.