image link Traditionally, active learning has been associated with the face-to-face classroom, and many online courses focus on more traditional activities like watching videos and taking online quizzes. However, with the push for an online biology degree at the ASU School of Life Sciences , it is vital that techniques that focus on student-centered learning and collaborative/peer engagement be integrated into our new online courses. This webinar focused on taking activities that are used in a traditional classroom, and translating them into online activities with the use of web apps and some restructuring.  One of the examples shared included changing a typical minute paper written before students left a class, into an interactive video post, asking students to answer a prompt with their own videos using FlipGrid. Another example showed participants how Google slides and Padlet could replace post-it note activities that allow students to group, categorize and make conn...

41% of Millennials check Facebook daily, but are as equally connected through Instagram and Snapchat. YouTube is their favorite social network, but podcasts are trending up as an alternative to books, allowing them to learn about their interests and their world. Our webinar this week helped faculty learn easy ways to engage students in the course content by integrating technologies that they are using daily. We shared the 5 questions that UC Berkeley uses to guide faculty that want to use social media in their class. These questions help instructors plan and be thoughtful about issues that might come up. We also shared 5 classroom activities and the recommended technologies for each. Embedding Twitter feeds into Blackboard pages Sharing lists of appropriate podcasts through CastBox Creating an online bulletin board for students to share links with Padlet Example: EBT Debrief Assigning Video Diaries for students, and having them learn basic video editing through WeVideo...