It’s now the second week of teaching at Queen’s University. Most live-teaching is done remotely via MS Teams (other online meeting software are available). Many lecturers and students are engaging in new digital spaces for the first time. The biggest question for students using digital spaces for remote and/or online Read more…
It’s now the first week of term. Student inductions are getting underway and teaching starts this week as well. It may be students are taught face-to-face in some scenarios and today’s blog post looks at engaging students in live-teaching in MS Teams. On Friday, we looked at MS Teams and Read more…
Over the last three weeks, we have looked at adding active-teaching tools to the Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. The link to last weeks post (Blogs, Wikis and Group Work) will link you through to all the activities you can use in your active teaching. It’s that time of year again Read more…
Welcome to the final blog post in the series for the Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. Until now, we have covered eight other activities to engage students in active-learning. These will assist teachers with active-teaching. These include: Engagement Summarizing Content recall Using index cards Problem-based learning Role play Student presentations Think-pair-share Read more…
On Monday, we looked at student presentations as an activity to engage learners. Today, the activity we want to cover is Think-Pair-Share. Let’s look at: What think-pair-share is How it can be used in teaching Some variations to think-pair-share The benefits And how this can be used online as an Read more…
Wow. Monday’s come around so quickly. This is the third and final week of blog posts for the Teachers Toolkit for Engagement series. We have looked through a number of activities teachers can use when teaching. These activities promote active learning and engage students. They include: Engagement Summarizing Content recall Read more…
Today, we look at Role Play as part of the Teachers’ Toolkit for Engagement. By now, you should have a number of tools within your toolkit. To encourage active learning, why not try a few of the following suggestions from previous blog posts? Engagement Summarizing Content recall Using index cards Read more…
Last week, DigiKnow started into a series of blog posts to help build up a Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. We have been posting more frequently than normal for this series and we do hope you are enjoying it thus far. On Monday, we looked at Using Index Cards in teaching, Read more…
This is the third post in the series of Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. Today we look at using content recall activities as a task for use in-class or online. Our previous posts, we looked at Passive Lectures and Engagement and Summarizing. As previously mentioned, passive lectures have their place and Read more…
This is the second post in the series of Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. Today we look at using summarizing as a task for use in-class or online. Our previous post looked at Passive Lectures and Engagement and as discussed, passive lectures do have their place. Passive lectures should be complemented Read more…