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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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Online Introductory Concept/Writing and Image Exercise

Through inviting students to write in a range of ways, this resource offers strategies to integrate deep reading and discussion of images into the classroom.

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Online Annotated Poetry Exercise

This resource offers a way to engage students in deep discussion of a poem through collaborative annotation using Google Docs.

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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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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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Hashtag Close Reading Assignment

This resource offers a way to invite students to develop a shared annotation key and mark a text accordingly, drawing on online tools like Mentimeter.

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Dialogue Between Authors

This resource outlines an activity that invites students to be both creative and performative as they read critically and synthesize multiple texts.

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Assignments Class Activities Close Reading Discussion FYSEM History Literature Resources Seminar Practices Social Sciences Student Engagement Writing

Dialectical Notebook

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

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Assignments Class Activities FYSEM History Literature Resources Student Engagement Tech How To Tools Writing

Creating an Online Student Magazine

This resource outlines how to make use of the online learning environment (via tools like flipboard) to share student-driven research, writing, and interests related to any course theme.