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Work and Study Online with O365

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…

By Daria Casement, 3 years28th September 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Intro to Problem Based Learning

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…

By Daria Casement, 3 years2nd September 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Content Recall Activities

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…

By Daria Casement, 3 years28th August 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Summarizing

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…

By Daria Casement, 3 years26th August 2020 ago
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