Voices in the Feminine - Digital Delights

"To transform your online class into an active, relevant learning environment, design your class with collaborative learning activities that connect students with their peers and provide them opportunities to make real-world connections with course content.

 “Collaborative learning – promotes student-to-student interaction as the primary mode of learning and also supports socially constructed meaning and knowledge creation.” (Paloff & Pratt, 2006)

As you design your collaborative learning activities, keep these tips in mind:

• Seek out tools that allow students to easily edit anywhere, anytime with minimal work on your part, like Google Docs and Slides, Wikispaces, and VoiceThread.
• Design activities that encourage students to share life experiences with peers, and tie these activities back to your course learning objectives. Get creative!
• Follow up assignments with a reflective activity, like a blog post in which students write about what they learned from the sharing process and discuss how peers’ contributions were similar or different from their own.  Reflecting encourages continued metacognitive growth and development."