{"id":9,"date":"2008-12-15T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard8\/2008\/12\/15\/8-ways-to-get-students-more-engaged-in-online-conferences\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:00:01","slug":"8-ways-to-get-students-more-engaged-in-online-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/2008\/12\/15\/8-ways-to-get-students-more-engaged-in-online-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Ways to Get Students More Engaged in Online Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to encourage more student participation using the threaded discussions in Blackboard 8?\u00a0 Take a look at some of the pedagogical strategies offered by Professor Klemm of Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>1. Require participation.<br \/>\n2. Form learning teams.<br \/>\n3. Make the activity interesting.<br \/>\n4. Don&#8217;t settle for just opinions.<br \/>\n5. Structure the activity.<br \/>\n6. Require a hand-in assignment (deliverable).<br \/>\n7. Know what you are looking for and involve yourself to help<br \/>\nmake it happen.<br \/>\n8. Peer grading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/resources.blackboard.com\/scholar\/general\/pages\/ictraining\/Eight_Ways_Engage_Conferences.pdf\">http:\/\/resources.blackboard.com\/scholar\/general\/pages\/ictraining\/Eight_Ways_Engage_Conferences.pdf <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to encourage more student participation using the threaded discussions in Blackboard 8?\u00a0 Take a look at some of the pedagogical strategies offered by Professor Klemm of Texas A&amp;M. 1. Require participation. 2. Form learning teams. 3. Make the activity interesting. 4. Don&#8217;t settle for just opinions. 5. Structure the activity. 6. Require a hand-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}