The document provides tips for improving online engagement as an educator. It recommends getting to know students through icebreakers at the start of class, being honest in interactions to build trust, and encouraging conversations to replicate social learning. Technology should follow lesson planning rather than dictate the experience. Additional tips include using a flipped classroom model and conducting polls to ensure student participation.

1. Online
Engagement
Tips
by Chevonnese Chevers Whyte

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4. Before class or at the very beginning,
use 5 - 10 minutes to have a
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something non-academic.
Quote of the Day
Word of the Day
Ice Breaker
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5. Find ice breakers that give you more
insight into your students.
Left Brain/ Right Brain Quiz
Myers Briggs Personality Test
Wizarding World House Quiz
Mental Age Quiz
etc.
Sources: Google, wizzardingworld.com,
YouTube etc.
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6. Share in their experiences but be honest
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7. This helps your students to trust you and
be confident that your efforts are to help
them to learn
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8. Humans are social beings. Education is a
social activity. Even though we are
online, we should try to replicate social
interactions and they all do not have to
be academic engagements.
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9. It is the experience that you would like
your students to have will dictate the
technology that you use.
Experience (Lesson Planning) -> Technology
NOT [Technology -> Experience]
Bonus Tip 1
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10. Try to utilize the flipped classroom
teaching strategy
Outside of sessions - Students engage
with Course Material
Within sessions - Discussions, Exercises,
Q&A, etc.
Bonus Tip 2
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11. Conduct polls throughout the online
session to ensure that students are
present
Bonus Tip 3
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12. http://chevonnesewhyte.com
https://www.slideshare.net/chevonnesewhyte
@ChevonneseWhyte
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13. That's All
Folks!
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