Author: Ed Beck
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Creating Customized E-mails to Students
Jaqueline BennettDepartment of Chemistry and BiochemistrySUNY Oneonta Sending individual e-mails to all your students can make it a hassle when only one piece of information is different. Jaqueline Bennett explains how to use the Mail Merge feature to send customized data to your students through e-mail. This is part of a series of posts collected by…
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Breakout Groups in Microsoft Teams
Andrew BottomleyDepartment of Communications and Media, Media StudiesSUNY Oneonta In the video, Andrew Bottomley discusses how he sets up Microsoft Teams to make breakout groups for students during their online class. This allows students to meet in their groups virtually during their class time. As an early adopter to Teams, Andrew shows how uses Team…
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Scaffolding and Organizing a Semester–Long Project
Julie LicataDepartment of MusicSUNY Oneonta In this video, Julie Licata presents her course organization to make sure her students engage with each other for a semester long group project. She shows her Blackboard set up–putting students into groups, modules for projects, and discussion boards. She assigns and organizes week long mini projects that build up…
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Creating Equitable Group Work
One of the big fears with assigning group work is that student contributions won’t be equal. In the video, Sarah Portway shows and explains what she does for her classes to make sure all students become accountable for contributing their share of work into the group project. She shows a couple forms she uses for…
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Creating community through the use of Teams
Mike Puckett,Sociology (Criminal Justice),SUNY Oneonta Like many of you, I found myself thrust into the world of online teaching last semester. I knew that my weekly 2 and half hour lectures could not be replicated online with the same pedagogical effect. However, I was unfamiliar with teaching using Blackboard or Teams. I had, of course,…
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Journals for student reflection on learning
Anita Levine,Elementary Education and Reading,SUNY Oneonta I use the Bb Journaling tool in almost all my education classes, including my online grad. course. Works well for me. I make just one journal and they can each do/submit their writing in that one. They can make as many entries as they want in just the one…
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Course Refresh Weekly Challenge Week 1 – Course Organization
The Course Refresh 6-week Challenge is built to help faculty focus on specific tasks to work on for your fall courses as we prepare for the possibility of different teaching modalities. Each challenge is based on the TLTC’s simplified OSCQR (OPEN SUNY Course Quality Rubric) checklist. We hope that as you build your course(s), the checklist is helpful as some of the points are simple and mechanical and…
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Participation Activities in Online Videos
Dr. Emily Riddle, Department of Human Ecology, SUNY Oneonta, I haven’t introduced any new resources that I could link others to in my classes since transferring online. However, I have continued to use in-class participation activities, in both my synchronous and asynchronous classes. For asynchronous classes, I record 3 mini lectures for every 1 normal…
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