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Lexicon podcast proposal

This resource offers an example assignment that outlines a step by step process for inviting students to create a podcast with a partner or in small groups.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Collaborative Close Reading

This resource outlines strategies for engaging students in synchronous close reading using either PDFs or Google Docs.