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Stage 1: Think about your best Active Learning ideas – ones from your practice or ones from colleagues or your institution. Add them to the Padlet – if you don’t mind, please include your name. Include images/links/videos too!

Stage 2: In small groups, work together to discuss your contributions, and rate your top one from each category by giving it 5 stars.

Stage 3: We will review the top-rated responses, and hopefully be able to hear more about these!

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Prep activities around a theme(flipping)

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Prep activities around a theme(flipping)

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Gets students into active listening to each other, nice way to do introductions

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Write down 10 words they think of when they think of the topic being covered

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I Always start off with teasing out what the students know already about a particular topic or phenomenon and then help them to scaffold their learning from there...

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I Always start off with teasing out what the students know already about a particular topic or phenomenon and then help them to scaffold their learning from there...

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Differentiated - Flipped / Blended input (video / text / audio) per lesson to engage and prepare for in-class discussion (studs can chose to add agency)

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Differentiated - Flipped / Blended input (video / text / audio) per lesson to engage and prepare for in-class discussion (studs can chose to add agency)

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Online breakout rooms to discuss a topic and revert back to entire class with their findings

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Student love this and from the tutors point of view you can see students adding/amending in real time so good for seeing which groups are struggling and which are racing ahead
Wendy G

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Helping students test their anatomy knowledge (from colleague). Jess Frye, Univ. of West London

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Helping students test their anatomy knowledge (from colleague). Jess Frye, Univ. of West London

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Giving out blank T-Shirts and fabric pens, students draw the organs on the T-Shirts to check accuracy

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Students selecting their favourite visualization and explaining why & how to the Class

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Thinking has a shape so model making with students with a modelling kit that they all have ahead of a workshop

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https://www.wooclap.com/

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Words in a wall and students have to find connections between them - always a red herring in there somewhere. Has worked well.

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Use Slido quizzes to run a quiz at end of a topic to test their learning

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Students are encouraged to make up a board game of words associated with a topic (Vicki Dale)

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Series of topics around room (e.g. from a lecture or series of study). Students given x number of post its. add one idea per post it. Can add to all topics or just one mulitiple times (or combo). Cannot sit down until post its used. Cannot duplicate ideas or remove someone else's post. At end, put in groups to review ideas and feedback best 3 ideas etc.

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Record the main theme and idea of the topic to be covered in the lecture

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Ask a question: what did you last eat? what can you see from your window? when was the last time you...

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Ask a question: what did you last eat? what can you see from your window? when was the last time you...

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A great way for all to contribute output from a think pair share

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Padlet for students to share what worries, fears or questions they have about the topic (esp. if it's a difficult subject)

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True / False Poll about content of previous session

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True / False Poll about content of previous session

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Small groups have access to the same Word document and contribute to the same piece of writing.

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Mobile Outdoor Learning Activities facilitated by (for example) Actionbound

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Mobile Outdoor Learning Activities facilitated by (for example) Actionbound

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Great Appp, which enabled me to introduce Inquiry-based learning to Pre-service teachers in a really activating way giving them an experience instead of a lecture.

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What's the one thing you will take away from the session today? (Vicki Dale)

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Moving round the room to use the sticky whiteboards to add their thoughts as a group  to debates/controversies.
Wendy G

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Staff introduce themselves on Teams and share a gif of how they are feeling before starting the course. Great for an icebreaker activity

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polling, word walls and all sorts. Can get a powerpoint plug in to embed into ppt seamlessly

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Students choose their own breakout rooms

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Set a quick research topic for each group online, give students 15 minutes to gather resources then present back. 

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Set a quick research topic for each group online, give students 15 minutes to gather resources then present back. 

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Students have to choose lego from several pots to create an animal, which is then admired and set aside. When, later, they can't say where each lego piece came from, it gets taken away from them and their animal breaks. Memorable!!

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The transition from further to higher education is marked by a series of challenges for the new student, not least the requirement to learn the discourse of academic practice, and referencing as a part of that. By perceiving what it means to reference, students should also come to understand what it means to write, including the problematic areas of authorship and ownership of ideas. Academic writing and paraphrasing are demanding concepts that require the student writer to enter into the academic discourse and relinquish their hold on the worlds of a text and embrace instead the argument behind them, in a form of 'language-game'. Taking an interpretative, dialogic approach to referencing, the inherent playfulness of learning is emphasised through the use of Lego, used as a metaphor for the students' construction of meaning and to exemplify the discipline of citation and attribution. This paper outlines a method that metaphorically and literally enables students to construct and make visible the underlying theoretical philosophy of referencing and plagiarism by using Lego as a mode of authorship, in the context of the nature of academic discourse and what it means to write. In addition, the personal, engaging nature of the activity meant that it would be a more memorable activity too.

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Conceptualising plagiarism: using Lego to construct students' understanding of authorship and citation

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The transition from further to higher education is marked by a series of challenges for the new student, not least the requirement to learn the discourse of academic practice, and referencing as a part of that. By perceiving what it means to reference, students should also come to understand what it means to write, including the problematic areas of authorship and ownership of ideas.

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Peer-learning and review has now become my default teaching methodology after 20 years of teaching...

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Students in groups of 4 or 5 identify people in various jobs listed on a worksheet. Can be known to people or find on LinkedIn.
Group with most names wins

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Long-term project (from colleague): setting up record label

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Long-term project (from colleague): setting up record label

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Very large project that involved the creation of a record label where students took on all aspects of the production, including working with artists, or producing students' work (University of West London)

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So many uses!

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Alicia Owen - Colleagues in Psychology have created an online murder mystery using video and built-in MCQs - can be asynchronously or synchronously

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I teach a combined group of Beverage Management and Culinary Arts, so I run a Food and Drink quiz for two person team (one from each group) Winners get lunch for two in  or Training restaurant

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I teach a combined group of Beverage Management and Culinary Arts, so I run a Food and Drink quiz for two person team (one from each group) Winners get lunch for two in  or Training restaurant

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I use kahoot with 10 short questions to recap on last class material at the start, I find kahoot is fun and lifts the spirits :) Eileen (MTU)

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Blogs (through VLE discussion boards) to discuss interesting cases from the students' own clinical practice.

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Blogs (through VLE discussion boards) to discuss interesting cases from the students' own clinical practice.

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A colleague asked students to wrote revision mcqs and bring them to class, then ran a pub quiz with a student host.

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A colleague asked students to wrote revision mcqs and bring them to class, then ran a pub quiz with a student host.

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Pre-session questions to consider with accompanying reading/video/podcast with 

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Pre-session questions to consider with accompanying reading/video/podcast with 

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Useful icebreaker/discussions. In breakout rooms, students are given prompt questions to answer and form part of a discussion. Particularly useful during inductions.

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Collaborative Jigsaw exchanges (moving stds from one room to another)

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Collaborative Jigsaw exchanges (moving stds from one room to another)

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Live graphs, polls, wordclouds

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An open source video tagging tool for  flipped learning approach. ​​With a 24 hour deadline students interact with video by  tagging and inputting questions as they view. ​​The tutor then looks at the data and plans synchronous sessions accordingly; focusing in on key concepts points. ​Elando

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https://www.yellowdig.co/

Piloting this for the upcoming semester. More suited to asynchronous.

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I try to delegate as much of the session to the students themselves in terms of running the session

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^ thinking Hats (Edward de Bono) -  each student/group wears a different hat (perspective) to deconstruct an idea.

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^ thinking Hats (Edward de Bono) -  each student/group wears a different hat (perspective) to deconstruct an idea.

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Creates word clouds - can be used to ask how students are feeling or to sum up a topic in a few/one word

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Ask students to make a note of one question they still have or are unclear about

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Ask students to make a note of one question they still have or are unclear about

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Students start with a general question and one person begins. Once they have answered the question they nominate someone to continue the process by adding their response. Then they choose someone else etc. Questions can be something like "What did you enjoy most about your learning last week?" or even "What is one thing you are looking forward to in the week ahead?" Really worked well when we did online seminars too last year
Wendy G

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Soft introduction to analytics, by getting them to put their own essay into a word cloud and see the key themes that arose.

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I post a question (either open ended or multiple choice) and the students are able to submit their answers. The answers are anonymous and encourages more participation.

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Online discussion topics in Canvas on a topic covered that week. Can post a comment and comment on other posts

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Developing word clouds, selecting a response, add thoughts etc.

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Allocate a scenario to small groups with poor student engagement and the team has to work together to find a an appropriate solution, considering pros/limitations

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Using Teams channels for dedicating chats on specific topics.

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Using Teams channels for dedicating chats on specific topics.

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This is a great way to get students to unpick complex interlinked systems. In my practice I ask allocate a small group an element of the immune system and they have to make a case why it is the most important part. A proposer outlines their case (each group has a proposer) then a seconder follows up by responding to the other proposers. We then have a poll.

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Use randomisation option in Brightspace Bongo classroom

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Use randomisation option in Brightspace Bongo classroom

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bringing practical sessions to the classroom

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bringing practical sessions to the classroom

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developing the strengths of practical delivery and use to help active classroom

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Break class into groups. Pit groups against each other - give a specific scenario (need a flight - Aer Lingus versus Ryanair), need sports goods (Adidas versus Nike), hungry (Burger King versus McDonalds) etc. Class decide which team wins / best sells their brand / company.

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Give three ideas/ words/ concepts. Students choose "odd one out" - idea would be it is ambiguous to allow for any of the answers to potentially not fit e.g. "ice, water, steam" - and so students critically think and justify answers after

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Great for learning new vocabulary/concepts. Individual and team games can be played.

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Class poll questions to gauge understanding

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Class poll questions to gauge understanding

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Then ask again having discussed with a peer

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https://wordwall.net
Great for getting range of games out of same material

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Using free templates, communicate the lesson or findings to another audience.

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Find someone else in the room they have something in common with? 

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Find someone else in the room they have something in common with? 

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Icebreaker (Vicki Dale)

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Students work in threes as interviewer, interview candidate and observer and rotate places answering opening interview questions like 'Tell me about yourself' thanks to colleagues in the careers service for sharing this idea with me, Eileen (MTU)

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Ask students to see something from a point of view and make a case for it whether they actually think it or not

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LEARNLAB.net a great combination of Student Responseware (such as Mentimeter or Socrative) combined with slides as in PowerPoint. 

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LEARNLAB.net a great combination of Student Responseware (such as Mentimeter or Socrative) combined with slides as in PowerPoint. 

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All-in-one platform so you don't have to switch all the time. The Co-Lab part is free.

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Using Google Forms or MS Forms to complete a short quiz on their learning

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Using Google Forms or MS Forms to complete a short quiz on their learning

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Get the students to some research and come back and present their findings

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After a series of three lectures on a topic (kidneys in this example), we’ve asked students to describe kidneys in one word. We can do this in real time and let everyone participate as many times as they want.

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MS Sway presentations ( short videos on a topic given)

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MS Sway presentations ( short videos on a topic given)

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Lots of warm-up activities - physical - push chairs back and play - zip, zap boing; rhythm clapping, spontaneous improvisation etc.

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Lots of warm-up activities - physical - push chairs back and play - zip, zap boing; rhythm clapping, spontaneous improvisation etc.

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Students select the play list/ parody songs that relate to the topic for that week.

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song about molecular biology - Google Search

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Ranking on PollEverywhere so students can upvote and down vote (used for scaling the size of UK tax streams - a dry topic)

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Ranking on PollEverywhere so students can upvote and down vote (used for scaling the size of UK tax streams - a dry topic)

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I can it top 'n tailing the session... i.e. I share the learning outcomes at the start and then review these at the end (gives ownership of the learning back to the students, helps to consolidate the learning undertaken during the session)

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I can it top 'n tailing the session... i.e. I share the learning outcomes at the start and then review these at the end (gives ownership of the learning back to the students, helps to consolidate the learning undertaken during the session)

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Wordwall has spinning wheel but also random open the box / flip the card (can be used with student names)
https://wordwall.net

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We go around the group and share a 'weather update' using the weather as a metaphor for where we're at/how we're feeling in the moment. It's personal and intimate but allows people to keep the detail to themselves too. Anyone can say pass should they not wish to share. (Keelin Tobin)

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Brilliant for creating posters or presentations

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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How would you find something out?

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IN groups students have 5 minutes to write ideas on different topics/ questions, then pass it to next group (and in doing so receive ideas). They have 4 mins to read/ amend/ delete and add to it; then pass to next group etc until receive back original piece of work.

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For mind mapping

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Alicia Owen - use a statement and ask students to use different emojis to agree, disagree or rate

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Great as an icebreaker for new classes (especially 1st years). Student says something interesting about themselves and the class have 3 questions before they decide if it is true or false.

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Great for making interactive videos

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I have recently been introduced to the idea of Inquiry Graphics...I am going to explore this further. Choosing an image that relates to the topic being covered and giving a brief description of the relevance of the object(s) in the image to the topic. Seems to work well as an asynchronous online activity, engaging and including visual learners. 

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I have recently been introduced to the idea of Inquiry Graphics...I am going to explore this further. Choosing an image that relates to the topic being covered and giving a brief description of the relevance of the object(s) in the image to the topic. Seems to work well as an asynchronous online activity, engaging and including visual learners. 

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Everyone spends 10min finding out about a topic. In pairs one student goes first and shares their findings. The other student add to the findings. The pair then gets together with another pair and so we have 4 students findings pooled.
Sometime I have several different topics running and ask the group to put their findings on a padlet to generate a class resource

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Students put forward the play list for the start of different classes - another (usually) safe way to have they learn a little about each other. Eileen (MTU) Idea nicked from someone ....sorry cannot remember who!

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Students work on a real world problem on a common shared OneNote document. Different groups look at different aspects of the problem in separate Zoom breakout rooms and update their part of the OneNote doc. Come back together at various points in the session and explain what they have added to OneNote to update the whole class on their part of the problem.

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use a mandala while waiting for student to join session and ask student to color it in while chatting (Elando)