This short videos shares a visual “brainstorm” of suitable activities that could be used to start a unit or a term with your students. Virna Rossi discusses her approach across several areas including; keeping it simple with low tech solutions, flip it (if you can) by including some introductory and preparation activities, providing a balance of asynchronous, synchronous and offline activities, using icebreakers, building a community through the effective use of the online space with forums, maintaining a teacher presence, considering the content, making links to previous information and what is coming next, considering how the content fits within the bigger picture, providing an assessment briefing, and providing a model for reflective practice. It is worth noting that this video does not have any captions or a transcript available. It is worth noting that this video does not have any captions or a transcript available.
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