ICC TLC - Online Learning

As the semester ends, it can be bittersweet , and we can feel overwhelmed with the tasks at hand. We must prioritize what we do with our 86,400 seconds each day. I want to encourage you to carve out time to collect feedback from your students and to provide a sense of closure. I suggest providing students an opportunity to say goodbye, to reflect on the semester, and to celebrate their accomplishments. Here are four suggestions on how you can finish well.   1.     Farewell Discussion – Create an optional discussion forum as a place where students can share what they learned from the course with each other, say goodbye, or exchange information with other students within the course. This suggestion is a formal way to create a sense of closure. If you build a community of learners, it is only proper to create a sense of closure at the end of the semester. 2.     Exit Survey – Ask students for feedback on their experiences within your course. Ask questions that address the navigation, org

When we design our instruction to build community, we need to proactively reduce barriers to learning so that all students can be engaged. Last week I gave you some resources for making your video content accessible. This week let’s look at some best practices to use when creating materials. Whenever possible, I would recommend that you post the doc or ppt format of your content within your course for students to access.  If your content is an article scan, see if you can find an .html version of the article to use, then reach out to see what resources we have within the library that could be of help. Pdf files are generally less accessible than word documents, and making a pdf accessible takes more time.   Word and PowerPoint both have accessibility checker tools within them that will assess your document, advise you, and correct issues as you go. Here are the main design elements that you need to be aware of for your content to be used by a screen reader.  ●       Name y