What would happen if you stopped giving participation grades?
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you stopped giving students participation grades? Professor Berkeley Kaite did and decided toContinue Reading
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Moving Classroom Participation Beyond “Please Raise Your Hand”
We remember 10% of what we read, 30% of what we see, and 90% of what we do. This suggestsContinue Reading
Breaking the ice – 5 tips for getting your discussions started in myCourses
Classes start in just over two weeks, so it’s the perfect time to start getting your myCourses pages ready for the semester. The Discussions tool can be a great way to add an online component to your course. This blog post contains recommendations for creating exciting online discussions, with a focus on how you can leverage online icebreaker activities as an opportunity to introduce students to the Discussions tool.
From the campus to MOOC: Reflections of a student assistant
McGillX offered its first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the edX platform in January 2014 and has now offeredContinue Reading
Bringing social media into myCourses: Embedded Twitter feeds
At Teaching and Learning Services, I work as a Learning Technology Consultant and help instructors with incorporating learning technology, suchContinue Reading
Instructors: Stop putting your PowerPoint slides on-line
I tire of the belly-aching about how students don’t show up to lectures anymore (the latest example of this isContinue Reading
Information Communication Technologies (ICTs): Friend or foe?
I recently finished a book called Alone Together by Sherry Turkle (2011), a professor at MIT. The book discusses howContinue Reading
Turning class participation into short written assignments
In the entry from the Teaching Professor Blog pasted below, Maryellen Weimer, PhD, suggests that instructors give students a participation grade for writing ABOUT participation, not for talking up in class. What a novel idea! Weimer writes that the common approach to grading participation rewards students who like to talk and know that verbal participation will win them points. Instead, she suggests that writing short papers about the role participation plays in the learning process is a more fruitful strategy to help students appreciate how important interaction is to the learning process. Read more –>
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