IDEAS to get students ACTIVELY ENGAGED in LEARNING
Most students would like to interact with others in their courses. Students need to be engaged with other students, the "outside world", in groups, and need opportunities for self-assessment and reflection. We can provide our students with opportunities to create presentations and portfolios, where they can create their own videos, find and display images and add links to web sites. The chart below provides ideas for engaging activities you can add to your classes.
| What you want to facilitate...? | Ideas to consider... | Level |
| Student-to-Student interaction | Use Forums for in-depth discussions, or Chat Room for shorter interactions
Also: Allow students to comment on each others' Blog posts or Student Pages (see below) |
Easy Easy |
| Student-to-world interaction | Have students interview relatives, friends, experts, or others on a topic related to class – and post their results in the Forums Or have students create a video of an interview (recommend posting on YouTube and marking Have students take a picture of something they made, a paper showing a problem they worked, |
Easy Easy-to- |
| Self-assessments | Quiz | Easy |
| Reflective assignments | Blogs - Example Blog Activity | Easy |
| Written/visual presentations or student portfolios |
Student Pages (in Lessons) | Medium |
| Oral Presentations | Have students create a video of their presentation using Warpwire (contact sakaihelp@durhamtech.edu for important set-up information or post to YouTube and mark "unlisted" Have students use Screencast-O-Matic or other tool to create a presentation. |
Easy-to- Medium Medium Advanced |
| Group Work | Create Groups in Sakai. Then you can create a Forum topic for each group Give each group an online meeting space (using Sakai's Meetings tool) |
Medium Advanced Advanced |
