Using the United Nations Sustainability Goals in a Classroom Activity
In this podcast I describe a simple and effective classroom activity that makes use...
Category Archives: Practical activities
Listen: In the year I was born: An activity to create empathy with you and your students and between students
This is an easy way of creating empathy with you and your students and...
Student Panelists: Increasing engagement by letting students drive the conversation
This is a very simple and powerful way to increase student engagement in online...
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: 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...
Cultural hangouts for international students missing home
Our multi-cultural learning community can, and needs to be celebrated and continue during lockdown....
Shared coffee hangouts
Many organisations and businesses, where people work remotely or from home regularly connect during...
Fifty activities for enhancing the student experience during the Covid-19 Pandemic
I created this document quite early during the Covid-19 pandemic – it is a...