Here’s a link to my learning activity portfolio.
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Another forum I could develop would be a toolkit for online learning. I’ve noticed that students who do not have experience with online learning can experience particular challenges (this has been particularly true with students who had to abruptly transition during the pandemic!). One way I could help increase social presence is to create a forum for us all to share strategies for online learning. Here’s a possibility:
Toolkit for Online Learning
Here’s a forum for us to share tips and strategies for online learning. Let’s start a discussion! What challenges have you experienced with online learning? What strategies have worked for you in the past? What resources (blogs, articles) have you found helpful for issues such as time management? Let’s help one another to successfully complete this course.
As I think about how to create social presence in my classes, one thing I’m considering is to create a forum for events/blogs/articles/etc related to the class. Since I’m unable to modify the course content, this would be a way for me to help my students develop a sense of shared purpose. Here’s an example:
Welcome to the Current Events Forum! Here’s the place for all of us to post events, newspaper articles, blog posts, or YouTube videos related to our course. This could be content related to issues such as Indigenous legal systems, police brutality or incarceration in Canada. Let’s start a discussion! How do these current events relate to and extend the conversations we’re already having in our class?
Activity 1 – Introduction Post
Students can enter my TRU classes at any point in the year, so unfortunately this makes it difficult to engage them as a community. However, I’m thinking that creating a forum for introduction posts — where I’ve posted one as well — would be a good way for me to attempt some community for the small number of students in these classes. Here’s a possibility:
Welcome to the course! The Moodle class discussion forum is one of the community spaces we will be building in this class. If you have not yet done so, please upload a profile picture for your Moodle account and indicate your pronouns.
Then, for your first ever post:
1. Introduce yourself and, if you like, post another photo of yourself
2. Say why you signed up for this class and/or what social justice means to you
3. Tell us something about the land where you currently live or post a photo
4. Tell us something that has recently made you laugh
OR … do none of the above and instead write your own creative post to introduce yourself!
Here’s a link to my Learning Activities Portfolio.