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#520: Use Trivia As A Hook For More Effective Learning
Items of trivia can create a powerful hook for learning. Short, sharp and, sometimes, silly facts
provide our brains with the fun and interest we need to stay connected to the training. We link
these facts to other parts of the content in the same way we would use well placed and highly
memorable graphics. Once the association is made, the picture or the trivia sparks the link to
the content that may have been mundane without it. Thus the hook is made and longer term
memory committed.
Neil Lasher
Trainer1
#521: Invent Ways To Keep Your Audience Involved
Ask for folks to "raise their hands" if they agree with a statement you just made; Ask a question
and ask people to type their answer in Text Chat but not to press send until you say "go"; Have
people click "yes" on the feedback pallet when they can see your pointer on the slide; Be
creative and think of some more ways for learners to participate!
Malee Jones
EDS
#522: Use What Works For The Job At Hand
There's a lot of training that can happen with capturing things through Print Screen, Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Paint … and then sending it out through email.
Linda English
Save The Children
#523: Two Due Dates Are Better Than One
When teaching with an asynchronous discussion board, students often wait until the due date
before posting. Because of this, little time is available for replies, so little discussion occurs. To
allow more time for replies, consider establishing two due dates. The first due date is for an
initial posting, and the second due date is for the end of the discussion. If you have a one-week
discussion period, you could require students to make an initial posting by the third day. With
this approach, everyone has at least three or four days to reply. I do this when I teach online
and have found it really helps, especially near the end of the semester when other time
commitments pull for student attention.
David M. Antonacci
University of Missouri-Kansas City
#524: Use More Than One Channel
I encourage students to form small work groups . . . interact in as many ways as possible . . . behave like a
learning team . . . just as people do in industry teams, where the stakes are much higher.
Pete Edwards, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, UD
#525: Get Tough On Students
Instructors need to remind their students to respond to discussion board postings with relevant information.
Often students post responses that are nice or complimentary. This takes a great deal of the other
student's time. Students open all the messages and do not have time to open several that have no
substance. This week's posting to our discussion board in a class that I am taking totaled 209. I estimate
that 40 of these could have been omitted because they really did not say anything new.
Bill Fleckenstein
Bellefonte Area Middle School
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