Several months ago, I shared some of the new teaching practices I experimented with this fall (my first ever time teaching in a hybrid in-person/online format). As I noted in that post, one thing that seemed to me to work very well has been having students record short Flipgrid video responses to daily readings. Although this seemed to me to work pretty well pedagogically, it was also a lot of work to watch and categorize which videos I wanted to discuss before class, and it got to be a real drain (and stressor) the further we got though the semester. I'll also be curious to see what my students thought of it in my end of the semester evaluations. I also avoided using online test proctoring services (such as proctorio), largely on the basis of privacy concerns–though I'm curious what other people think here (and how, if you don't use proctoring services) how you approach exams instead.
Anyway, in light of the above, I'm beginning to think about how I might do things next semester: whether I'll use the same technology, or do some things very differently, and if so, what might work better. Which brings me to several questions today for you all:
- Which teaching technologies have you used for online/hybrid teachings this fall?
- How did you use them in terms of a teaching tool?
- Did you think it worked well or not so well? Why?
- In light of your answers to (1)-(3), how do you see yourself doing things differently in the spring?
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