The focus of interactive lectures is to engage students in both the material and learning process more holistically. But most importantly, interactive lectures are about better pedagogy. The following tips will help in creating interaction and engagement that will not just make your classes more fun but more beneficial for your students.
Using Lumi and H5P to Create Drag and Drop Activities for Students
What is Lumi and H5P? H5P is an open source application to create interactive and engaging learning objects quickly and easily. Up until now it required an on-campus installation but now there’s an application called Lumi Education that allows you to create these interactive objects and even embed them into OAKS for your students to use…
#OneNewThing: Conducting Interviews Using FlipGrid
There are times when you or your students want to conduct an interview with someone but it’s very difficult to get together due to time zone issues, busy schedules, or some other reason. Well, Michael Overholt, former instructional technologist with LCWA came up with a great remedy for these issues… FlipGrid Flipgrid is a video…
Stop! Are your Zoom Recordings toooo Long?
Read on to find out if your recorded lectures are hindering or helping the learning process for your students. Did you know that prolonged hours behind a screen can cause Zoom fatigue and eyestrain? Zoom fatigue, a new phenomenon, is exhaustion due to communication via virtual means. Eyestrain occurs when one focuses on a screen…
Creating Audio-based Learning Activities using Lumi and H5P
What is Lumi and H5P? H5P is an open source application to create interactive and engaging learning objects quickly and easily. Up until now it required an on-campus installation but now there’s an application called Lumi Education that allows you to create these interactive objects and even embed them into OAKS for your students to use…