Planting seeds in the online classroom conversation
This is an activity that runs over the entire term or semester. It is...
Listen: Expert of the Week: Increasing student interest and engagement
Expertise is something students often assume belongs only to the teacher. In an oline...
Listen: Being current and gaining student interest and engagement- the In the News activity
At the start of my online sessions with students I draw upon the “chat...
LISTEN: The power of asking repeated questions
Setting up a powerful question at the start of a lecture or seminar online...
WATCH: Meeting your digital audience on the same level
Paul Levy explores the negative impact that talking down to our digital.audiences have have...
Screen Tiredness and Over-busy slides
Student attention declines as a result of screen tiredness. There are two causes...
LISTEN: Using the chat for energisers and icebreakers
Keeping things simple is the key to a good virtual classroom energiser or icebreaker....
LISTEN: Quizzing with your students
Simple quizzes can energise an online class. Here is some practical advice for injecting...
LISTEN: The Ten-minute Powerpoint rule
When spoken content in classes tends to go over ten minutes without a...
