Present ideas for Learning Objectives and

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Present ideas for Learning Objectives and Materials, but invite the students to participate in the development of the syllabus, especially with small classes. Getting their buy-in is a great way to get to know them, tailor course that meet their needs, create a strong group dynamic, as well as their buy-in for the project of the course. Katie : Cloud-source syllabus early and invite comment. Invited them to organize how spent synchronous vs asynchronous time, content priorities too. Changed meeting times, formats, and what students wanted to do synchronously. Also check in with students over the semester to see what works and what isn’t catching on Fiona : for poetry class students suggest songs and poems, music video, and why they chose it. No homework, each class everyone has to show up, do a deep reading, different exploration of these. Free-write poetry analysis in class as one assignment, first building block for bigger assignment. List of Ideas for Activities and Approaches to Distance Learning Seminars and Regular-Sized Classes Ask students to learn and apply literary terms to new materials. Small-group projects that can be brainstormed and presented to different groups in break-out sessions. Maha: Asks students to paraphrase poems in own words Fiona: Verbs for how to work with ideas: expand, contrast, resume, etc… Fiona: Listen to a poet interview, read a critique, etc… and then comment via podcast, video or paraphrase. Synchronous versus some project work? What balance. Asynchronous lectures to begin new longer texts to be listened to before class discussions. Ask students to re-write story or poem using a different genre. Concept map big problems like what is a genres, what are characteristics of different genres, complicating this over semester. Elizabeth: Distance learning - hybrid structures of asynchronous and synchronous. Conversation class: asynchronous 2-min audio blog reporting/reacting to content (art, current events, video etch). Then they would have to do written responses to each other’s audio blogs. She did 1 synchronous class, 2 non-sychnous classes in which they either did these audio-blogs or worked on a large on-going project. Elizabeth: Blog function tends to be more dynamic than Discussion on Husky CT. Can post Audio-Visual materials more easily. 12. Katie: Discussion can work well, but students need to be carefully funneled to different threads, good placeholders: an entrance and exits clear. Good for task-specific participation. 13. Fiona: Run some synchronous sessions much shorter 10 min. Then break-out