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Building Community Online Series-Session 2: Making Face-Time Count: Strategies to Promote Engagement in Live Online Meetings (and Common Pitfalls to Avoid) - Microlearning Burst
Where: Webinar/Virtual
When: Thursday, February 11, 2021
10:15am - 11:00am
Note: Zoom login instructions will be sent the day prior. If you have not received login instructions by 4:00pm the day before the webinar, please check your spam folder, if you still have not received the login details please email nercomp@nercomp.org.
Workshop Organizers: Christine Boyland of Bryn Mawr College and Heather Richards of Nichols College
Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: Free
Non-Member: $25
Event Overview
Social presence is the ability for students to engage with their peers while making significant contributions to a course’s community of learning. In online and distance learning environments, web-conferencing platforms are often presented as panaceas for building community and establishing human connection. Features such as breakout rooms, chats, screen-sharing, whiteboards, and polling are believed to increase low participation and student engagement associated with online virtual meetings. However, as stand-alone tech solutions, these platforms and features do little to promote communication, collaboration, and active learning.
Moving beyond platform-specific features, this 45-minute workshop will focus on pedagogical strategies that teachers can implement to increase students’ cognitive engagement during live sessions and promote a sense of class community.
Learning Objectives
Participants in this session will:
- Understand the value of virtual meeting guidelines that uphold values of respect, diversity, and inclusion
- Devise active learning strategies that engage learners before, during, and after online meetings
- Anticipate common pitfalls when using web-conferencing features for student interaction and collaboration
This Series has 3 Sessions (please sign up for each individually). You are not required to attend all 3.
Upcoming Sessions:
- February 18, 2021: Instructor-Generated Videos for Increasing Social Presence in the Online and HyFlex Learning Environments: Teaching and Instructional Design in the COVID Pandemic and Beyond
Registration Cancellation Policy:
By clicking on the "Order Now" button, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee. Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 1 day prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
Christine Boyland
Christine Boyland came to Bryn Mawr in 2006, as the Director of the Language Learning Center. Concurrent with her employment at the College, she served as a Technology Fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), conducting in-person and web-based workshops on a variety of technology and pedagogy topics to a national audience. Before coming to Bryn Mawr, Christine taught at Yale University, Trinity College, and the College of William and Mary, and she was an Instructional Designer at St. Anselm College.
Maria Ocando Finol
Maria Ocando Finol is joining Bryn Mawr College as an Educational Technology Specialist, after receiving her Phd in Spanish from Arizona State University. As part of Bryn Mawr College’s Library of Information Technology Services, she will focus on helping faculty and students include technology into their academic work in meaningful ways. With a background in applied linguistics, Maria’s research interests include developing intercultural competence through technology, using film for pedagogical purposes, and the roles of teachers in tech-mediated classrooms. Before coming to Bryn Mawr College, Maria was a Connected Academics research fellow at ASU, where she developed professionalization initiatives for Humanities doctoral students. She was also the founding president for CALL Club at ASU, a graduate student-led organization focusing on computer-assisted language learning, and the lead organizer of AZCALL 2018.