Tag: online learning

Setting up for Round 2 of Teaching with Teams

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Refining my Teams setup Back in June, I blogged about my experiences using Teams to teach my undergraduate auditing subject in Autumn semester (Semester 1 in Australia). Based on the anonymous student feedback survey and my own navel-gazing – there were three areas that needed improvement – conveying information about assessment tasks, organising recordings of our synchronous classes and virtual office hours. 1. Information about assessment tasks Students were used to using Blackboard as the main learning platform – so when we moved to Teams, I used it in the same way – I added the Assessment Task guides as

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5 Secrets to Creating Engaging Videos for Learning

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Way back in December 2019, I proposed a session for the American Accounting Association’s Conference on Teaching and Learning (CTLA) on how to create engaging videos for learning. They accepted before COVD19 was even on our radar, but the presentation has become very timely – especially for my northern hemisphere colleagues who only had a few weeks of online teaching before they went off on the long summer break. These aren’t really secrets – but it makes for a catchy title – and these are things I’ve learned over 10 years of making content for students and also for YouTube.

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