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Today (Friday of Week 7), I used mail merge to personally address and email all students who submitted A2 that haven't logged on since either before the break, or since results were released. I tried to make the language fun and inspiring, and acknowledged it's tough to comeback after such a break. I mentioned there were lots of great tips about the next Assessment. And I posted this image, followed by a link to the Portal to log in:

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I've come to accept it, but poor view rates on videos can be disheartening!
I did a (hopefully!) inspiring HNY Powtoon (below), and emailed it to everyone, embedded in the email (all they had to do was click to view) but only managed about 30% view rate.  Maybe it was because the students who were on break weren't interested in the HNY message by the time Jan 2 rolled around?
But! (There's always a silver lining!) I did receive many lovely emails in reply, wishing me a HNY back, and thanking me for the nice video :-) #GottaLoveTheEngagedStudents!!

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Hey team, just dropping back in on Friday of week 7 to share what HAS worked.
I emailed all my HD recipients from A2 on Monday of Week 7 to congratulate them.  I sent individual emails, adding in something specific to each student, encouraging them to keep posting (as it motivates others), start posting (because they clerqly have so much to offer the group) or resume posting (eg because we're all missing your jokes/humour/input).  I got quite a good strike rate from that.  Not 100%, but I'd guess 60%?
And I've gone overboard this week with the #whoopwhoops and #Awesomes and GIFs of happy dances for some great content, in the hope of spurring them on some more....

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Contacting all the A3 teams has been a great way to re-engage with most people this week. I got a good level of responses and quickly found out which were the "problem teams" that needed more follow up work! Participation on the Db's has been modest and variable by group. Simon W

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Putting more content on the DB instead of in email, then using the email to point people to the DB - with a hyperlink WB

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Putting more content on the DB instead of in email, then using the email to point people to the DB - with a hyperlink WB

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Feel free to have a vent here......

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My Name:
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- emailing students at critical times if more participation is required (e.g. the 'teammate wanted' activity in Week 5)
- asking thought- provoking questions of individual students (e.g. "Could you explain a little more what you meant by...?") or a number of students / the group. (e.g. "I wonder...?", "Do you agree with....?"
- Memes
- Powtoons
- Images
- Good organisation of the BB homepage, so that the subject appears manageable to students. Images included for important posts (e.g. Collaborate sessions)
- When an activity has not received a response by day 2 OR if it seems quite difficult, providing my own sample response to the question

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Emailing students about the team work activity and it's importance can draw more posts.
Parul

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A quick call to action:
emphasising how important the activity is to the upcoming assessment; &
highlighting that there is a wealth of tools available in the DB
~Leonie

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Based on a teaching tip from my last TP, I am going to use the A1 marks as a reason to email some of my students who stopped posting in weeks 2 & 3 as a way of re-engaging with them - congratulate them on their mark, say how much I valued their past contributions to the DB and invite them to post again.
Simon W

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** Simon for your contribution it really demonstrates the SOL value of teamwork by contributing to this ideas board and also helping us all meet the student engagement requirement of our roles as eLAs.

** Warren for your contribution.  Once again demonstrating teamwork and meeting the unit goal of maintaining momentum in the DBs.

**Thanks Simon W for sharing.  I love the demonstration of gratitude to your students who are contributing.

**Cheers Parul for sharing.  Emailing is a good way to re-engage the students who are not on the DB so often.

**Thanks Leonie, yes I think sometimes students forget how many extra  resources are on the DB waiting for them.

**Crystal for sharing some wonderful ideas.  Asking those thought provoking questions really hooks in some students and can be really effective in engaging students who may have a tendency to drop off the discussion.

**Leonie for sharing her disappointment with poor view rates and week 7 wins.  We all know that this eLA lark is not all sunshine and rainbows and sometimes we put in the hard work and get no response.  But, as Leonie so brilliantly reminds us, there is always a silver lining and that's what spurs us to keep going.

**Simon W for sharing that contacting teams has been a good way to re-engage all of his students or at least identify those that were struggling.  Now a new course of action can be taken.

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Maintaining a high student satisfaction rating for the unit

Setting up social forums in an effort to get students chatting early on so barriers are broken down well before the team assessment

Maintaining momentum in the DBs especially with the longer holiday break

Making our assessment collab sessions more interesting rather than just reading from slides.

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Agility and Innovation-  Actively look for ways to do things better.
Passion and perseverance- Celebrate success and inspire others.
Integrity- Be constructive
Teamwork- Open to give and receive feedback.

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Mid week post and a video from the ela about the relevance of the weekly activity in relation to the assessment could help in generating bit of chat on the DB.

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One thing I did a little last time this unit ran was try and find funny videos that related the either the content or the responses from students. I thought this might encourage them to come back to see something a little different each time. I also had a 'marketing quote of the week' in my forums and I had some really positive feedback in relation to these. Students said that they felt motivated to get stuck into marketing after seeing how much influence it can have. I now use these in the announcements for the same reason :)

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One thing I did a little last time this unit ran was try and find funny videos that related the either the content or the responses from students. I thought this might encourage them to come back to see something a little different each time. I also had a 'marketing quote of the week' in my forums and I had some really positive feedback in relation to these. Students said that they felt motivated to get stuck into marketing after seeing how much influence it can have. I now use these in the announcements for the same reason :)

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Simon F

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Using the team charter docs as an invitation to visit the DB
Warren B

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Ask probing questions to encourage further discussion from students.  Effective probing questions have a knack for getting students to talk about their personal opinions or their feelings on the particular topic, promoting critical thinking.  Using questions that include the word exactly can sometimes assist for example "Thanks for your comment Sarah, what do you mean by your point that .......... exactly?"

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Ask probing questions to encourage further discussion from students.  Effective probing questions have a knack for getting students to talk about their personal opinions or their feelings on the particular topic, promoting critical thinking.  Using questions that include the word exactly can sometimes assist for example "Thanks for your comment Sarah, what do you mean by your point that .......... exactly?"

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Beck N