The move to remote online teaching has forced us to deliver our content via screens. In face-to-face classrooms, we have strategies that we know work to keep our students engaged. But how can we do this now that we don’t have the same visual cues or body language to rely on via screens? In this episode your co-hosts discuss the importance of making information stick better and share multiple, fun, easy-to-use tools to engage our students online.

• Make it Stick – The Science of Successful Learning Interleaving in an an online course.

Tools

• Bitmojis
• Avatars 
• AnswerGarden (word clouds)
• Vocaroo (voice samples)
• Riddles

Custom Break Timers by Brent

• Break Timer: Verb Tense (10 mins)

• Break Timer: Write a Sentence (15 mins)

Fun Finds

• Ixchell –  InStok.org web tool to find which store near you is likely stocked for an item
• Brent – Drawful 2 – Free to DL on a bunch of platforms