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Remote Learning & Teaching Resources for University Studies

Electronic resources for UNST division courses for fall 2020

Projects & Online Tools

 

  • Websites
    • Websites are an excellent way for students to think through their scholarship in ways that engage writing, information architecture, and visual and multimedia literacy.
    • Who can help: contact your liaison!
  • Digital Posters
    • A largely visual representation of a research project that follows the same principles as a traditional poster assignments but saved into digital formats.
    • Who can help: contact your liaison!
  • Social Annotation Tools 
  • Videos
    • Create storyboards and introduce auditory and visual literacy basics to your students.
    • Who can help: Sarah Kunze, skunze@colgate.edu, Debbie Krahmer, dkrahmer@colgate.edu or Jesi Buell, jbuell@colgate.edu
  • Timelines
  • Digital Exhibits
  • Data Visualizations
    • Create visualizations of data from your research, like interactive graphs, Social Network Analysis, or Infographics.
    • Who can help: Josh Finnell, jfinnell@colgate.edu or Jesi Buell, jbuell@colgate.edu or Debbie Krahmer dkrahmer@colgate.edu
  • Annotated Bibliographies 
    • Have your students perform research and evaluation without necessarily having to write an entire research paper.
    • Who can help: contact your liaison!
  • Literature Reviews
    • Literature reviews are designed to provide an overview of sources you have explored while researching a particular topic and to demonstrate to your readers how your research fits within a larger field of study.
    • Who can help: contact your liaison!
  • Prefocus Essays
    • Prefocus essays are narrative research logs that focuses on the formulation of a research topic through exploration of many types of resources (books, articles, websites, newspapers, primary sources, social media, etc.).
    • Who can help: Jesi Buell, jbuell@colgate.edu or Steve Black, seblack@colgate.edu or Debbie Krahmer dkrahmer@colgate.edu
  • Multimedia comparisions
    • Have students analyze representations from different types of media (ex. a painting vs. a photograph) from different time periods or locations and engage in visual literacy through the lens of your classwork.  
    • Who can help: Jesi Buell, jbuell@colgate.edu
  • Interviews and Transcripts
    • Have students create oral histories, interview people virtually for research purposes, or collect and share their own stories via audio and/or transcripts.
    • Who can help: Debbie Krahmer dkrahmer@colgate.edu
  • Wikipedia Editing
    • Collaborate with the WikiEDU foundation to have your students edit, update, and correct Wikipedia articles. Students learn how Wikipedia works and share in making information free to the world.
    • Who can help: Debbie Krahmer, dkrahmer@colgate.edu
  • Google Earth Tour 
    • It's easier than ever before to create a global tour with Google Earth. Now completely browser-based, you students can incorporate images, research, and videos into a tour. Visualize the journey of an author, highlight endangered species, and other geospatial information. 
    • Who can help: Debbie Krahmer dkrahmer@colgate.edu

Active Learning Ideas

  • Think-Pair-Share
    • After students read about a concept or are taught a concept, they pair up with another student. They discuss the material that was just learned and develop questions or a short summary to share with the class.
      • ​​Students can be paired in breakout rooms in Zoom OR discuss them in a Discussion Forum or other shared collaborative space (ex. Slack). 
  • Brainstorming
    • Students are required to think of all possible ideas on a particular topic and record those ideas in a shared collaborative space, such as a Google Doc or other web-based brainstorming tool like MindMaps.
       
  • Jigsaw Learning
    • Students are placed in a group and each person in the group is required to learn one portion of the material and then teach the rest of their group the information that they learned.
      • Groups with online members work in breakout rooms via Zoom OR students write individual discussion board posts explaining the topic.
         
  • Peer Review
    • Students share typed, written work with other students who review the work and provide comments via face-to-face discussion or in writing.
      • Students paired with partners on Zoom OR used shared collaborative space like Google Docs.
         
  • Student Presentation
    • Individual students present to the class via Zoom.
      • ​​During or after the presentation, the presenter answers questions posed by classmates either through the chat feature or using audio and video 

Helpful Guides

Accessibility Tools

Questions about accessibility of technology or educational platforms? Ask Debbie Krahmer, Accessible Technology Librarian, dkrahmer@colgate.edu for an individual consultation or general feedback. 

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