Technology Tools for Active Learning and Student Collaboration
Canvas "Groups": Managing course groups and providing an area ("Pages") that affords the students in a group to work individually or collaboratively, and to view each other's work.
Canvas "Collaborations": Leveraging Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint for the students in a group to collaborate on documents.
Hypothes.is: Active reading and annotation, allowing the instructor and students in the class to share and respond to each other's comments.
Canvas Peer Review Assignments: A peer review assignment enables students to provide feedback on another student's assignment submission.
Canvas Peer Review Discussions: Peer review discussion enables students to provide feedback on another student's reply to a class discussion.
Kahoot!:A game-like student response system offers a free version to educators. R-MC has limited EDU licenses. The EDU license offers slides import from PowerPoint decks and more reporting features. Contact Lily Zhang (zzhang@rmc.edu) for questions.
Makerspace Resourcesenable students to learn by doing - making digital stories, creating infographics and 3D representations, and exploring the unknown through Virtual Reality experiences.
