Thread by @karenraycosta

I'm going to try to put something more extensive together this week, but in the meantime, this might be helpful to newly online educators who are struggling with the question of how to engage students online: emerald.com/insight/conten…

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Many of us think of online engagement in these three buckets:
1. Teacher-student
2. Student-student
3. Student-content

Found this article calling that the "Trifecta of Student Engagement."

Instead of the current obsession with synch vs. asych, your time might be better spent here. Look through your course plans and identify which bucket your activities/assignments/content fall under. Do you have a balance of the three?

Many new online teachers get stuck in #3, student-content only. How can you weave in teacher-student and student-student engagement opportunities?

And of course, there's overlap, right? So tools like @Flipgrid and @voicethread are popular because they are an efficient and fun way to touch on all three elements of the trifecta, right? Good bang for your teaching buck.

But you can certainly do this in a simple, asynch discussion space as well, with some attention to having FIRST developed a strong sense of classroom community and by crafting a thoughtful discussion prompt.