Your Presentation: Collating and sharing your week's work

Reflective Writing Exercise: Current State (What teaching strategies do you use? How are you feeling about this transition to online teaching?) and Goals for the Week (What are some actionable goals? How can we best support you?)

We encourage you to write as much as you like for your own individual use, and choose one or more components of your writing to add to Day 1’s discussion board. Interact with other peers' posts as well.

For this activity reflect and share how you are thinking about including syncronous and asynchronous teaching. Consider some of the readings that you complete about Bandwidth and Immediacy and effective synchronous teaching. Also take this time to plan and write up how you will be balancing these modalities in your course.

• In your teaching and disciplinary context what activities and course elements work best in synchronous and asynchrnous?
• How will you combine both and would the balance look like and why?
• What will be your role  as a teacher in both modalities? 

Having gone through teaching presence resources, complete the following tasks for your own courses, you will be tasked with 

1) Reflection on your teaching presence: Reflect on and write out answers to 3 questions about your teaching philosophy and the strategies you use for maintaining a teaching presence. 

2) Complete a sample communication with  your students: Choose one strategy for developing a teaching presence with your students, and build it out (e.g. Welcome page on Canvas, introductory video; syllabus component). 

Day 4 offers you a chance to pull your learning together for reflection and application.

As we approach the end of this five-day program, you have likely gained a sense of specific aspects of your course that you would like to work on in order to apply your learning. Recognizing that everyone will be at a different stage of this process, we offer you two options for an activity. By the end of this activity, you should be prepared to share your work from this week with a small group of peers on Day 5 (You will have 10-15 minutes each to share your work in small groups and get feedback). 

For Day 4's activity, here are two options to choose from:

1) The first option is a more Structured Mini-Project aimed at transforming your syllabus for Blended Online Learning. Instructions are in the "Option 1" icon below. 

2) The second option is an Open Mini-Project in which you begin or continue the first stage of changes to your course based on what you have learned so far (You may wish to work on your Canvas course with attention to a/synchronous distinctions, film a welcome message focusing on teaching presence, or perhaps you would rather write a "to do" list for yourself to begin next week). This mini-project aims to hold time/space for you to work on whatever would be most useful at this time.

On Day 5 of TOT (Friday), you will have a chance to share your learning with peers in two back-to-back synchronous sessions.

Small-Group Presentations (60 mins): present / share your work with a small group of your peers and engage with their feedback and ideas. During this synchronous session, you can share the work you’ve done on adjusting your course (or an aspect of it) to an online blended learning framework.

Large Group Discussion and Closing (30 mins): Groups will share back key ideas that came up in relation to three prompts: Strategies, Surprises, and "Still Unsure".