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Innovative Examples of Community Involvement in Schools

Digital Promise

If you’re looking for innovative ways to involve your community, see if some of the examples below inspire you to act. League schools provide creative examples of community involvement in schools. Check out other examples of large-scale community engagement events. Luckily, many districts have done just that.

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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. These seminars are mostly discussion based. For example, during the digital audio week we explore the pedagogical affordances of podcasts and audiobooks, then put together tracks using Audacity, importing clips from Freesound , and uploading sample results to Soundcloud and Canvas.

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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

Our interest in academic discourse, and by extension Socratic seminars, stems from our work as Hollyhock fellows at Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. Lastly, provide video of some examples and/or non-examples with the habit in action, followed by a debrief on how to use the habit in a discussion.

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Choosing the Best Overhead Classroom Projector: 5 Key Factors to Consider

ViewSonic Education

For example, in venues like lecture halls or auditoriums that can accommodate hundreds of people, a projector with 7,000 ANSI Lumens or more is more suitable. For example, to project a 100-inch screen, an ultra short throw projector with a 0.25 Seminar Room & Huddle Space Overhead projector has long been used in a seminar room.

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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. They hashed out what they wanted from a class LMS—structuring much of the discussion board chronologically rather than topically, for example.

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

Edsurge

However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

Use this resource from Facing History and Ourselves to learn about socratic seminars in greater depth. 5] If you’re holding a discussion on Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars , for example, your goal might be, “Help students understand the key themes of the book and apply them to their own lives.”. Socratic Seminar. Affinity Mapping.

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