This activity is intended for staff to develop a metaphorical course map to orientate students in a course. The metaphorical course map can structure the thinking of the various themes in a course and helps students connect the themes to their learning.
Backchannel happens during lecture or tutorial sessions. Backchannel intends to encourage students to collaboratively learn by jointly authoring notes and sharing comments in real-time.
Peer Motivation Through Content Curation encourages students to find and analyse information, organize it, share it with each other. Students learn from each other through social interaction around content. The curation can be viewed via a browser or a mobile app and alerts of new content are made via email.
Sharing the load enables students to apply and construct collective and collaborative note taking and summaries. Joint note taking and summaries allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the topic or concept in a personal and meaningful way.
Concept Maps for Revision is intended to sketch course key concepts. The process enables the organisation and representation of information to improve knowledge acquisition and understanding of key concepts and their relationships in a course. The mapping offers an alternative way of providing student revision.
The Essay Checklist intends to support students in structuring and submitting a well prepared essay.
Essay preparation: Self-test for literature comprehension is intended to prepare students to write an essay. It uses the BlackBoard (Bb) self-assessment functionality to include readings followed by questions of various types. These are graded and, most importantly, clear feedback is provided showing how the readings should have been comprehended.
What’s Your Curation Strategy activity intends to show students how to build a personal curation strategy to manage information resources for retrieval, reflection, reuse and sharing with others for study or work purposes.
Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Workshop Review Questions is deployed to review learning at the close of a
workshop or workshop series.
Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Module Review Questions allows students to assess their progress in relation to specific content and set goals for learning toward final assessments and course completion.
