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# Module 1: Building Community and Engaging Students Online

Webinar 1 on Monday August 10, 2020; hosted by Joerdis Weilandt

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### Check in:

**TASK for you:**

Use the chatbox to quickly describe what the place looks like you are participating from today.


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**Agenda**
1. Online Essentials: Why build community in online courses? 
2. How will you establish teacher presence in your course(s)?
3. How do you define and communicate your approach to pedagogy?
4. How will you build community online?

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## 1. Online Essentials: Community Building


**Activity 1** (in pairs)

**STEP 1:** __Discuss the following questions (10 minutes).__
* In your personal or professional life, what communities are you part of? Why and how do you engage with them?
* How important do you think community is to learning in online environments? Why do you think so?
* Have you been part of an online learning community before? 
* If yes, successfully so, what elements contributed to its success?
* If not (not yet or not successfully so), what things do theoretically contribute to building a learning community online?

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**STEP 2: Report back to other groups (6 people) (7-10 minutes)**

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##  2. How will you establish teacher presence in your course(s)?
EReflect on the elements you've seen in FitFOL2020 so far. 
* Which have helped establish instructor presence in your opinion? 
* Can you think of other ways?


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## 3.  How do you define and communicate your approach to pedagogy?

### Activity 2: Teaching Metaphor Gallery Wall (10 mins)
**STEP 1:** Reflect on your teaching philosophy towards community building as a part of online learning. (individually 2 minutes)

**STEP 2:** Find an image **([click here to open a new page in this resource](https://openeducationalberta.ca/itfol-light/chapter/images/))** that best represents a metaphor for your philosophy towards community building in online courses. You will find an example in the link below.

**STEP 3:** Post your image with a brief description of what it represents on **[our collaborative gallery wall linked here](https://padlet.com/erinreid/vy4zo899280u)**.

**STEP 4:** Once a few peers have posted, comment on at least one other image.



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## 4. How will you build community online?




### Group Activity 3: Annotating our Module Chapter (15-20 min.)

To demonstrate how you could have your students collaboratively annotate a digital resource of your choice:

**Your task**:
* Work with a partner.
* Watch closely as the instructor demonstrates how to annotate our module chapter using the **[ Hypothesis tool in Moodle](https://moodle.uleth.ca/202002/mod/lti/view.php?id=17553)**.
* Ask your partner any of the questions below and type her/ his/ zer / their answer into an annotation.

**Questions to comment on:**
*1. Which part in the module chapter gave you ideas for your own online course? 
2. Which part in the module do you want to learn more about?
3. Do you have any feedback on the facilitation of today's webinar/ module?*

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## Questions or Feedback?
Feel free to leave further questions by commenting on this document simply highlight a phrase and then type comment into the box that appears - no sign up required).

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## Please note that 
[Module 2: Syllabus and Structure](https://openeducationalberta.ca/itfol-light/chapter/creating-a-course-syllabus-and-structure-for-online-teaching-light/) will provide further details pertaining to essentials in designing for engaged learning.

## References:
Reid, E. Module 1: Building community and student engagement online (Light). In: Centre, U. of L. T., Meadows, J., Old, B., Reid, E., Thomas, K., & Weilandt, J. (2020). *Fit for Online Learning LIGHT*. https://openeducationalberta.ca/itfol-light/chapter/building-community-and-student-engagement-online/







