This document provides prompts for discussion on facilitating student contributions and engagement both within and outside the classroom. It also prompts reflection on how instructors personally collect, connect, reflect on, and share information using personal learning environments and communities. Suggested topics include how instructors store resources, interact with others, evaluate ideas, and disseminate discoveries. Examples of educational technology bloggers are also provided.
2. Prompt 1
For the class you are working on during this iTeach and/or a class you have
taught online in the past:
?How do you facilitate contributions from students?
?How do you facilitate contributions between
students?
?How do you facilitate your students' engagement
with their communities outside of class, with friends,
peers, and/or the world?
6. Prompt 2
For yourself as an instructor, learner and/or enthusiast/hobbyist:
Collect ¨C Where/How do you store, note, remember, and gather information
such as: resources, photos, videos, and links?
Connect ¨C Where/how do you interact with fellow faculty, solve problems
with the assistance of peers, communicate with students, ask questions of
the hive mind, and receive help/pity/mercy?
Reflect - Where do you evaluate, analyze, contemplate, consider, process,
work out ideas, and propose thoughts?
Share - How do you share stories, results, papers, products, discoveries?