How are We doing? by Aris Winger https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11 en-us 2022-10-10 18:25:44 UTC 2022-10-14 20:21:51 UTC hello@padlet.com I just got back from a conference yesterday and I feel energized! https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939377 2022-10-14 20:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939377 start to worry about students' performance as things are getting harder. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939582 2022-10-14 20:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939582 I'm good . . . feeling a bit less energy in my classes (my own energy AND my students), but things are still going smoothly for the most part. stjohnw1 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939632 2022-10-14 20:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939632 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939639 Just wish we had a fall break like we have a spring break. That would help.]]> 2022-10-14 20:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939639 an ill family member which is no bueno but other things are coming together https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939649 2022-10-14 20:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939649 Feeling that students are more engaged than ever, but also discovered they did more poorly than ever on first midterm. Trying to reconcile this. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939671 2022-10-14 20:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939671 just dyed my hair purple so that's fun https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939685 2022-10-14 20:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340939685 lots of students actually did really well on the first project! (and lots didn't, but that was less surprising...) https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340940085 2022-10-14 20:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340940085 Really proud of my students for their exam performance. Am getting really positive feedback from them in an anonymous check-in https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340940738 2022-10-14 20:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340940738 The CUTEST thing is happening in my in-person class. Last week in a Padlet, one of the “What else do you want me to know?” answers was, “I have a crush on someone in this class.” Then yesterday, “He looks so good today!” https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340941277 To be fair, I’ve had romances happen in my classes before (and of course I take credit for them, even though I have literally had NO part in matchmaking other than being at the front of a classroom where both of them enrolled as students haha). ]]> 2022-10-14 20:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340941277 if they could really learn how to form small study groups and work together. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340941364 2022-10-14 20:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340941364 Had a great field trip last week - so glad we are back in person.... really broke down communication barriers and many of them did/tried things that were completely new- boundary stretching :) https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340941937 2022-10-14 20:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340941937 especially coming out of the pandemic, they have no idea how to do this... https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942377 2022-10-14 20:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942377 group activities in class help, especially if you make them get each other's contact info as part of the activity https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942536 2022-10-14 20:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942536 in the first year learning community we almost force them to make groups https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942628 2022-10-14 20:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942628 I don't think they know, but I'm also not entirely sure how to guide them in this direction. I had hoped that some of the Getting to Know You things I did early in the semester would have helped, but I'm not sure it did, except in a few cases. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942702 2022-10-14 20:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942702 Naturally would be most ideal because they would actually keep up with them but sometimes the need to be orchestrated https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942747 2022-10-14 20:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340942747 does your dept have student organizations for the major? (if applicable) our clubs are back in high gear and doing a great job building community https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340943026 2022-10-14 20:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340943026 My students just took it upon themselves to make a "quizlet" that was shared on Canvas to help them study for the exam on Monday. I was really impressed by them. This is more of a "virtual" study group/strategy. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340943083 2022-10-14 20:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340943083 I set up small groups in lab/discussion section to "collaborate". change up the groups a couple times. This spilled into beyond class groups getting together https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340943235 2022-10-14 20:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340943235 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340944443 I offered to put on the board meeting times, discord info etc. for any study groups that wanted to form. I also encourage this during lab. If there are a couple more capable organizers in the group this works, but sometimes it doesn't. I draw the line at organizing them myself!]]> 2022-10-14 20:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340944443 Study groups were SO IMPORTANT to me when I was a student (here at SSU). Maybe I need to dig through my memory and see how that happened. It wasn't anything that we were guided into . . . I'm sure we just made the connections ourselves. But maybe we were a bit more comfortable than they are now in our kind-of-post-COVID world. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340944795 2022-10-14 20:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340944795 In one of my class the students formed a discord channel- I don't know how much they are using it but I was glad to see the effort coming from them https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340945001 2022-10-14 20:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340945001 student's don't talk to each other when I walk into the classroom, so I don't know how this will happen naturally any more https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340946710 2022-10-14 20:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340946710 My upper division students have no problem forming study groups outside of class but it’s my freshman classes that struggle with this. I wonder how much of it is them feeling overwhelmed and not wanting another thing on their plate. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340948975 2022-10-14 20:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/n5x5j1mqdje6gq11/wish/2340948975