Create meeting places

Latest revision: 2022-03-28

The social context is an important part of learning

To make a course meaningful and developing the students need a safe and effective study enviorment where they can get to know their teacher, each other, and the course. A safe environment is a basis so that the students have the courage to share their experiences and questions and learn of and with each other.

Gilly Salmon’s five stage model shows how you as a teacher can support your students in their learning. The five stage model describes how technology, social context and challenges cooperate.

The model Community of Inquiry (CoI) points to thar social, cognitive and teacher presence effect the ability to create deeper understanding, and a better learning experience for the students (see illustration below)

 

Community of Inquiry består av social, kognitiv och lärarnärvaro. Illustration av Matbury - Own work,

"The community of inquiry emphasizes that knowledge is necessarily embedded within a social context and, thus, requires intersubjective agreement among those involved in the process of inquiry for legitimacy." /Wikipedia

 

Different “meeting places” in Canvas

Canvas offers multiple meeting places for the whole class or in groups, asynchronous or synchronous, depending on the purpose; 

  • Discussions: Discuss terms or subjects in open discussions or create mandatory discussion assignments.
    • Open discussion or as a mandatory assignment
  • Chat:
    • Canvas Chat gives the opportunity to synchronous discussions - not all universities us the chat function 
    • Zoom. Use the chat in Zoom where the students can ask questions, but also answering each others questions 
  • In groups
  • Let the students work in the same document;
    • Collaborations, here there is a connection to Office 365 and Google docs where the students can create an work in common documents - not all universities have connected collaboration tools to Collaboration
    • Canvas page - Use pages for common texts

 

Invite to meetings

  • Calendar can be used to book times e.g. for mentoring, individual or in groups;
  • Zoom
    • Invite to lecturers, lessons or seminars by sharing a Zoom-link in  Bjud in till föreläsningar, lektioner och seminarier genom att dela Zoom-länk in Announcements, Assignments or on a Page.
    • You can book Zoom meetings directly from your course page, presuming that it’s activated in the course navigation. Read more about Adjusting the course navigation.

Synchronous work in Zoom

 

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