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Activities for Exploration
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Dream Technology or Tool

In this activity, you’ll imagine a “perfect” technology or tool that you could use for teaching and also reflect on not only what problem(s) it

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January 31, 2023 No Comments
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Let’s Get Ven

In this activity, you will diagram how different pedagogical considerations are reflected in different modalities. Use the ven diagram construct to visualize where these considerations

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October 26, 2022 No Comments
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Imagining Classrooms

Take a moment to visually represent (literally or abstractly) an ideal face-to-face and online classroom. Consider the differences/similarities between what you drew; what do they

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October 26, 2022 No Comments
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Starting with Assumptions

Examine any of your existing biases about face-to-face vs online teaching. What are you bringing to this work that may be impacting your ability to

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October 25, 2022 No Comments
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The Rules of the Room

Draw on your own experience in online community to reflect upon how online groups organize and govern themselves. How can you apply these experiences to

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October 25, 2022 No Comments
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Free Writing: Flexibility

Take some time to write about how to achieve flexibility in a course you teach, while still keeping the experience coherent.

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March 11, 2022 No Comments
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#wronganswersonly

This activity invites you to start by thinking of an extreme: the most restrictive, authoritarian course policies you can imagine. Then, we invite you to

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March 11, 2022 No Comments
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Metaphorical Thinking

Look around your home or office and find some object that you can use as a metaphor of learning or teaching. Don’t worry about finding

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February 4, 2022 No Comments
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