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Webinar Summary: Effective Virtual Office Hours

This month's TeachT@lk webinar focused on the topic of creating effective and efficient virtual office hours. It was lead by Jennifer Mansfield and Amy Kitchens from the ASU GOEE group. We started with some tips for why you should consider doing office hours and what the benefits are to both the student and instructor. Then we discussed when to do them so they were convenient for online students work schedules. Different technologies were discussed, including: Zoom Adobe Connect Google Hangouts Skype Slack Shindig The webinar wrapped up with some strategies and tips, including Using a Google Spreadsheet for appointments Offering incentives- extra credit for best question, first login, etc. Recording sessions for an archive that students can review Bringing in a guest speaker, or focusing on a specific topic of interest   Resources : PowerPoint Slides Recording Article: Zoom:Create Your Classroom in the Cloud (handout)   Article: 7 Strategies for Succ