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SDD21: Zoom Not Making Your Heart Go Boom? Try These Virtual Engagement Tools
Hours: 2.25
In this workshop we will introduce a creative engagement toolkit that can be utilized by faculty and staff in the virtual learning environment. The engagement toolkit is divided into four categories that focus on starting collaborative conversations, making connections, assisting with processing new information, and energizing the room. These tools can be implemented in the classroom to encourage excitement about learning new material, utilized at ACC events to promote participation, or even used by teams to boost brainstorming in staff meetings. Using intentional and innovative approaches to engage with students makes the virtual learning environment more meaningful, and fun! This engagement toolkit provides faculty and staff the groundwork to begin implementing new engagement tools in their virtual world.
Participants will:
- Discuss engagement challenges we are facing in the virtual learning environment, what engagement can look like, and how we can be intentional in the ways we meet students where they are at in these unique circumstances.
- Participants who attend this workshop will receive a creative engagement toolkit which includes innovative ways of utilizing virtual platforms and a list of activities that can be used in virtual classrooms, events, or staff meetings. The activities are divided into four categories: starting collaborative conversations, making connections, assisting with processing new information, and energizing the room. The toolkit will be shared via Google documents and will be accessible to participants after the workshop. Facilitators will walk participants through specific activities to provide examples of how they are run and how they can be adapted to fit different learning environments.
Presenter(s):
The Office of Student Life Riverbat Success Programming Team (Daniela De Urioste, Sara Sanders, Tamara Yanes) coordinates Student Life’s Riverbat Annual Programming (Welcome Week, Wellness Week, Finals Week and the Annual Riverbat Bash), The Clothesline Project, Connect, Take Back the Night, Nite in the Life, Affinity Group Programming, and Riverbat Ambassadors. This programming includes events, trainings, and workshops that are intended for diverse groups of students at different points of their educational/leadership journey. Since COVID-19, the Riverbat Success Programming Team quickly adapted all areas of their programming to the virtual learning environment. Additionally, they began attending professional development workshops and facilitation trainings in order to further their knowledge-base, and started creating trainings/workshops for the Student Life staff, Riverbat Ambassadors (Student Life work-study students), and campus partners to ensure Student Life programming was intentional, innovative, and engaging for students.
This workshop will be held online during Spring Development Day. To access the workshop, go to the Spring Development Day webpage and click the "Connect" button on the day of the conference.
If any accommodations are needed for this workshop, please email facdev@austincc.edu as soon as possible but at least five days before the workshop. Please include the name of the workshop. You will be contacted by a member of our staff to discuss your specific needs. |
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