8. Eighteen activities for teaching online
In this chapter, we present eighteen activity ideas for teaching online crowdsourced from the participants in the first run of the #Openteach course in March 2020. The participants have generously consented to sharing their ideas for activities they have designed for teaching online in this book.
Overview of activities
The activities are designed for different engagement types: student support, collaboration, synchronous, asynchronous and icebreaker to promote presence at the start of an online course. Each activity gives a full plan so they you can integrate into your teaching practice if you wish.
| Activity | Presence | Supporting online students | Collaboration | Synchronous | Asynchronous |
| 8.1 Icebreaker: 2 minute bio | x | x | |||
| 8.2 Icebreaker: 2 truths and a lie | x | x | |||
| 8.3 Icebreaker: Leadership images | x | x | |||
| 8.4 Icebreaker: Time Travel | x | x | |||
| 8.5 Student support: Hanging on through the Midway Blues | x | x | x | ||
| 8.6 Student support: Icon: I can | x | x | |||
| 8.7 Student support: Virtual cafe | x | x | |||
| 8.8 Synchronous: The Trolley problem | x | x | |||
| 8.9 Synchronous: group concept mapping | x | x | |||
| 8.10 Collaboration: Online mind mapping | x | x | |||
| 8.11 Collaboration: Web quest Jigsaw | x | x | |||
| 8.12 Collaboration: Let’s talk about mental health | x | x | |||
| 8.13 Collaboration: Collective creation of course materials | x | x | |||
| 8.14 Collaboration: Teaching Values | x | x | |||
| 8.15 Collaboration: Virtual ethics committee | x | x | x | ||
| 8.16 Asynchronous: Teacher reflections on their challenges as Irish Language Teachers | x | ||||
| 8.17 Asynchronous: Online role play | x | x | x | ||
| 8.18 Collaboration: mathematics in everyday life | x | x | x |
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