1.5 Ways to Engage Students K.D. Borcoman Coastline Community
College California State University, Dominguez Hills University of
Alaska
2. What is Student Engagement? In education, student engagement
refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism,
and passion that students show when they are learning or being
taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn
and progress in their education. The Glossary of Education Reform
3. How Do You Do It? Enliven lecture and presentation materials:
video clips, cartoons, stories Encourage students to utilize
YouTube and other applications and platforms to respond to lectures
and discussions Extra credit works! 4. Discussion Forums Using
video and audio to respond to a forum posting Why? Web 2.0 How? 5.
Why Use Video? Video creates an emotional connection with users
through story. Video is a valuable method for demonstrations. Video
helps model soft skills. Video breaks up content and adds interest.
6. The Four Es of Effective Learning: A Useful Heuristic for
Teaching St. Johns University 7. Engaging Interest Learning begins
with focused attention We can capture and hold student attention
through use of: Personal vignettes Real-life examples Interactive
exercises Lecture starters that pique interest, such as movie clips
St. Johns University 8. Mastery Quizzing Study What is Mastery
Quizzing? pre-post quizzes during the semester of specific concepts
discussed during class Students have two chances to get the right
answer and earn credit toward final gradeat the very beginning of
class and at the end Mastery quizzing provides incentives for
attendance, punctuality, and attention 9. The Brain Loves a Puzzle
Puzzles Challenge the Mind to Think Pose puzzling questions at the
beginning of class: 10. The Brain Loves a Puzzle Puzzles Challenge
the Mind to Think 11. Self-Tests 12. Adding a YouTube Video to A
Discussion Forum 13. Discussion Forum Video Response Critical
ThinkingFallacies 14. Video/Multimedia Projects Creating a
YouTube-or similar- video as a collaborative or individual effort
Why? How? 15. Resources Camtasia YouTube iTunes Audacity Blackboard
Collaborate Pinnacle Moviemaker PowerPoint 16. Video/Multimedia
Project- EBUS Korea: Humanities 17. Video/Multimedia Project-
Critical Thinking Coastline College 18. Special Online Events-SLOOH
ECLIPSE OF THE MOON: APRIL 15, 2014 19. Contact with the
International Space Station Amateur Radio K6KDB Telebridge Direct
Contact 20. Contact with ISS and Kline School, Costa Mesa, CA 21.
How to you arrange Contact with the ISS?
http://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-on-the-international-space-station
22. Univ. of Alaska--Synchronous Field Activities A real time
event-SLOOH-Canary Islands 23. Blackboard Collaborate Student
Presentations 24. Historical Moments: ISDN and the Model Classroom
1999 25. Summary Student Engagement Multimedia Presentations
Wake-up Discussion boards Live Virtual Events Blackboard
Collaborate
