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.
Category: Resources
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 collection of three assignments from is from the network course “A Lexicon of Migration.” The resources covers ways students from four campuses collaborated to examine the history of migration from local, national, and global perspectives.
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.
This resource covers the use of weekly online assignments to engage Algebra 1 students and to encourage student ownership of skill acquisition.
This resource examines a collaborative essay about the visual politics of the coronavirus pandemic. Students worked together remotely to think critically about the momentous history that they were witnessing and their role in the writing of history, its documentation and visual archiving.
This resource offers an in-depth examination of students’ responses to breakout rooms, as well as some techniques and tips for using breakout rooms effectively.