By the end of this seminar you will be able to:
- Distinguish between ...
- Identify the core reasons why ...
- xx
1. Pre-seminar Task
You may like to ask your students to come to your seminar prepared and to undertake one of the following pre-seminar activities:
You might send your students to do some reading but with a question that they need to prepare to answer/discuss at the seminar. Your activity could be on this page or you could add a weblink to a Blackboard activity.
Under this banner you can embed a video, add a hyperlink to a video you have created in Collaborate, or other. For guidance on tools to create audio or video see Hum eLearning FAQs.
In order to engage your students you may like to:
- ask them to consider a case study and some questions.
- task them to watch a video, make notes and discuss specific aspect on a discussion board.
- keep it short - no more than 1-6 mins is ideal
2. Seminar
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You might pose some questions and ask students to aswer in pairs or in groups to promote interaction and a learning community.
You can link to a multimedia VoiceThread discussion or to discussion board on Blackboard. To do this create your discussion board or VoiceThread thread on your Blackboard site first. Then save the web address and add it to this page to create a link back to Blackboard.
To get these online discussions started and build a community of learners it helps if first students can introduce themselves to each other online. Below is an example of how you can do this with something like VoiceThread.
Remember to include lots of ways of feeding back to students about their learning and reinforcement to help them to feel confident about what they are learning. This might mean that you provide:
- opportunities for your students to think aloud individually or in pairs and report back to group.
- a quiz at the end of the seminar where you can build in feedback for those who do not get the right question first time (easily set up on Blackboard).
- You could use VoiceThread to allow students to provide peer feedback to other students.
Make sure you have something to stretch the confident students. So you might have an optional further reading, or an optional task or activity at the end of the session. It is important to make it clear that the session can be done without this extra reading or activity, but have it there for those who wish to delve deeper.
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