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Teaching Artifacts

Artifact 1: Nearpod Integration

Open Ended Questions

Two slides in a slide deck. The first slide is an outline slide indicating what topics will be covered in the day's lecture. The next slide is labelled Open Ended Question with a question mark.

Getting students to raise their hands can be a challenge. Offering a pseudo-anonymous question portal allows students who might be nervous or anxious to actually ask their question through a back channel.

Poll Questions

Two slides in a slide deck. The first slide is a title slide, with the header Check-In Questions. The next slide is simply labelled as a Poll with a graph icon. An example poll, asking students how they are feeling on an assignment. The available answers are Finished, Work in Progress, Planning Stage, and Not Started Yet.

Related is the question of having students raise their hands. Most students who fall into the “Not Started Yet” category are going to be very unlikely to raise their hand if you ask who hasn’t started on a project yet. The pseudo-anonymous Nearpod integration comes to the rescue again.

Artifact 2: Unit Schedule

Two slides in a slide deck. The first slide is a title slide, with the header Timeline (Reprise) and a line of sheet music. The second slide includes a weekly timeline, showing the overarching task for each day.

Keeping students engaged with the course content requires making them aware of the plans and connections between topics.

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