In this post, we are sharing suggestions for how to translate content-driven classes into an online setting.
Below please find the online alternatives for:
- Lecture format
- Demonstration
- Provocation
- Illustration
- Presentation
Suggestions based on technology level*:
| Low-Tech
Make a PowerPoint/Sheets/Prezi slide deck of your lecture points. Send your students an email to let them know you’ve posted the presentation on LMS/Google Classroom/Digication and that they should look through it there. Be sure to provide next steps for them: after they’ve looked at it, what should they do next? |
| Mid-Tech
Post a recording of your lecture (along with any slide deck) on LMS/Google Classroom/Digication so that students are able to interact with the material anytime during your established timeframe. Think of what type of follow-up assignment or interaction would make sense. |
| High-Tech
Go through your slide deck with your class live using your preferred technology (Big Blue Button, Google Meet) while also recording. Post the recording on LMS/Google Classroom/Digication so that students interact with the material later, if need be. And consider a reflection assignment or ‘take-aways’ as a next step. |
Synchronous/Asynchronous suggestions – see this presentation.
Considerations/Tips:
- What will students be asked to do with the lecture or demonstration?
- What happens after viewing it? Is there a follow-up discussion or assignment?
- What learning objectives does this practice support?
Technology* you might consider:
- Power Point
- Google Slides
- Kaltura
- Your Phone or Computer
- LMS
- Google Classroom
- Digication
- Google Drive
- Big Blue Button
- Google Meet
- And many others…
*Please check the recommended and supported technologies on Pratt’s Telepresence Site.
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Additional tech suggestions to help you with content delivery online*.
Note:
We understand ‘low tech’ as any of the following:
- faculty generally unfamiliar/uncomfortable with technology OR
- students generally unfamiliar/uncomfortable with technology OR
- both students and faculty have tech limitations such as internet connectivity, technology access, computer access etc.
We understand ‘high tech’ as any of the following:
- faculty and students both familiar with and somewhat more comfortable with technologies AND
- both faculty and students have full access to the internet, technologies and computers/video/audio etc.
We understand mid tech as something in between.