Taking a Class Temperature
Taking a class temperature means checking in with students to see how they are doing. By checking the emotional temperature of the students (ex. seeing how students are feeling, their energy level, etc.) teachers can better understand what their students need and what they are capable of doing in that moment. In this way, teachers […]
All Class Response – engage & assess
Educators and researchers have long considered the benefits of students actively engaging in the classroom and how this can lead to gains in student learning. One way to achieve such engagement is by effectively incorporating all-class response or a student response system (SRS) as a part of your classroom assessment (and teaching) approaches. Be sure […]
UBC Seed Library: getting our hands dirty with making, creating, innovating!
Hands-on activities can be fun, even inspiring, and they’re a great way to introduce people to different concepts and new ideas, first-hand. Getting people active and chatting with each other helps get the ideas flowing… sometimes in ways we’d never thought of before, and sometimes with people we hadn’t realised have so much in common […]
Scrumblr – OpenEd App
Scrumblr is a visual note board. It is one of a suite of browser based apps available through the Open Ed Project. All apps in this project are open source. The instance of the app we use is within ‘Sandcats’ a Canadian housed server that is part of the Open Ed Project. All class response […]
