A flipped classroom may invite students to obtain conceptual stimulation before attending a class. Your enthused and knowledgeable talk will hold your students’ attention for the first 10 to 20 minutes. However, many teaching faculty may experience a challenge to sustain student attention. What is more, getting students to talk readily in a second language in class is not easy.
In the first part of the workshop, you will have an opportunity to have a first-hand experience to try out various group activities through working with the tool ‘Collaborate’ in Blackboard as an in-class task. Despite the setup in lecture halls, you will find that you can create sessions for your students to communicate in their small groups. After your students have spent time working Collaborate in the classroom, they can extend the experience to having a seamless connection through Collaborate to communicate with group members in real time whatever their locations.
Linking group discussion, students are highly encouraged to spend individual time synthesizing core concepts in addition to the PowerPoint files provided. The second part of the workshop will cover how to use ‘Journal’ as a tool for students to capture key concepts learned, a summary of group discussion as a one-minute paper by the end of a teaching session, and the possibility to reflect on actions in their group projects.
