This blog post accompanies my session, Jazz Up Student Engagement in Your Online Courses, presented at the 2018 Nebraska Distance Learning Association Conference.

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Note that I have deliberately not included tons of sites and ideas because I wanted this to be simple and not too overwhelming. To pique interest.

Learn about Designing Significant Learning Experiences

• Dee Fink and Associates: Designing Courses for Significant Learning
• A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning
• Syllabi and Examples of Course Design for Significant Learning

Learning How to Learn

• Teach students to subscribe to the journal’s feeds i.e. ALT or Community of Inquiry
  • Use Feedly or Twitter to follow journals or topics
• Reflection on their own blog, like UMW does with A Domain of One’s One
• Showcasing and extending learning with job portfolios: i.e. via Mahara or other portfolio tools

Caring

• Create a persuasive video to share on YouTube, Videoscribe, FlipGrid, or Animoto.
• Use GoogleSites to share the value and importance of a subject. Sample GoogleSite.
• Join an international debate at idebate.org.

Human Dimension

• Blog or discuss ways in which one’s personal life affects and is affected by the subject via WordPress, VoiceThread, Weebly, Edublogs.
• Be an ethical, responsible member of a team serving others; tools to support groups: GoogleDrive and similar tools to support collaborative learning.
• Observation of real-life human experiences related to the content; report back to the class.

Integration

• Aggregate, curate, and mashup web content to make connections. Sample feedly for online learning. Flipboard or Scoop.It or StumbleUpon or Google Alerts
• Create a description or analysis or infographic of the relationship between two or more concepts with WordPress, Piktochart, or Infogram.
• Curate pins on Pinterest on competing ideas or concepts into relevant boards to integrate and make connections. i.e. Graphic design pins

Application

• Analyze and critique an issue or case study, and organize and present it via Padlet.
• Apply the skills in context; document ability with video via YouTube, Videoscribe, FlipGrid, or Animoto.
• Create a recommendation for a corporation in a real-world problem/situation, build and present on GoogleSites or PowToon.

Foundational Knowledge

• Create and share/narrate a mental map or conceptual structure of major concepts. Bubbl.us or Mindly the app or MindMeister.
• Create a presentation: Explain & predict concepts and ideas. i.e. Prezi
• Have students access and interact with primary sources of content – i.e. TedEd, Library of Congress, and more.

Online Tools

• Annual List of Top 100 and Top 200 Tools

Fink Taxonomy and Tools v2 PDF Handout – Permission granted to reprint freely. Please share any adaptations.

What would you add? Feel free to comment and share.