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Engaging Teaching
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— Lonnie Lonnerson (@Pancakes_Lonnie) November 25, 2016
Gee, We hope it’s okay for Lonnie to share this clip from Pixar’s Inside Out. Oh well, we guess it’s Lonnie’s copyright issue anyway. Speaking of interactive, what does that even mean? Well, this late in the semester, interaction is probably done through a foggy haze of fatigue and big comfy sweaters, but there are many ways it occurs in a learning environment. Here are four broad categories:
- Teacher-student interaction
- Student-student interaction
- Student-content interaction
- High-fives
Some of these are trickier than others. We all know the risk of a missed high-five. Among those four broad categories are 45 billion combinations of skills and strategies and places to do it. And it’s up to you to facilitate it all! But we can help. If you would like to try to make something more interactive in your course and want to brainstorm ideas, let us know. For example, we may forward you Josh’s email address because he showed us a cool way to get the interactive juices flowing at Frost campus this month.
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Movember Muscle Campus Tour from Joshua Feltham on Vimeo.
Learning Technology
This week we are “hubbing” about interaction, active learning, and click to learn. In that spirit, we want to highlight a couple of options that will encourage and support students of all ages and sizes to use their technology to interact.
Asking questions, checking for gaps, and determining prior knowledge are all good opportunities for students to use their own devices. Long story short, we are talking about polls and surveys! Here are some of our favourite options:
Let us know if you try something with your students! Email us at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Policies & Procedures
There are appropriate and inappropriate uses and times for just about anything. These things include pineapples, semicolons, PowerPoint, and cussing. Pineapples are inappropriate on pizza, semicolons are inappropriate right here; PowerPoint is not the place for walls of text, and maybe leave the cuss words out of your eulogies, depending on the family. We even have a policy for the appropriate use of some things here at Fleming, and it doesn’t include a single cuss word, because that would be inappropriate.
Appropriate Use Policy
Fleming’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Appropriate Use Policy provides a framework for the appropriate use of ICT services, resources, equipment, and facilities. This includes
- software and systems;
- all of the information stored in systems,computing devices, and associated peripherals;
- VoIP communications network and wireless infrastructure and related equipment;
- facsimile machines, scanners, telephones, wireless devices, digital storage media, video and other multimedia devices.
Not mentioned are telegraphs, Morse code, and carrier pigeons, but be appropriate with those too, you crazy scofflaws! Anyhow, to find ou