Ideas You Can Use in Today's Class

[michael_britt]

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Here are some of our best posts and most popular areas in the community:

Ice Breakers With Students:

• First Day of Class
• Ice Breakers Not Just for Day One

Online Activities You Can Give Your Students:

• Activity: Help Students Improve Their Study Skills
• Experiment: World's Funniest Joke!
• Personality Questionnaire: I Can Read You Like A Book

Critical Thinking:

• Koko the Gorilla: A Critical Thinking Exercise
• Proof That Exercise Defeats Dementia - Or Is It?

Engaging Students:

• The Ingredients to Engaging Students
• The Power Of Stories
• Start with the STUDENTS rather than the discipline
• How Do I Phrase A Question That Will Get Students Thinking?
• Do you use the "Catch Up" Active Learning Technique?

Improving Writing Skills

• Using Transitions
• Avoid the Misuse of You
• Using Numbers Properly in Your Writing
• Do Women Overuse Exclamation Points?

Plagiarism

• Teaching Plagiarism Avoidance Using Music Pitfalls
• Academic Blurred Lines: Teaching Academic Integrity Across Disciplines

Assistance From Other Educators

We have over 200 faculty who have been using MindTap, WebAssign and other Cengage tools for a long time. Feel free to ask them a question any question you have about how to best use our tools.

These posts are just scratch the surface of what the community has to offer educators. Join today and subscribe to some of our boards. Providing faculty with useful content on every visit is our overriding goal. I think you'll really enjoy being a member of the Higher Ed Faculty Community.

[N_Walden]

Can you share hands-on ideas and project-based learning activities?

[michael_britt]

@N_Walden We try to include a lot of discussion questions and occasionally ideas for in-class activities in the posts here on the community.  Check out the area on the right of the map called "Classroom Discussion and Activities Created from Current Events". 

Michael

[matted10]

I find discussion questions to be a great way to ensure that students are engaged and understanding class material.

[rmcginnunm]

The tools you all have available with cengage unlimited are a real game changer!

[rmcginnunm]

The MOSS and 3-2-1 code it and reimbursement methodologies all really great tools! And the more I learn the more excited I get about the new cost model for students.

[michael_britt]

@rmcginnunm I'm curious: what are "MOSS" and "3-2-1 code it"?

[rmcginnunm]

3-2-1 Code it is a digital textbook that has Mindtap. For coding it's handy to get instant feedback and Mindtap does a great job of giving some feedback instantly. MOSS is going to be cool from what  I can tell but I will learn more soon about it. But for billing it might really change how we train students.

[mary_mcdonough]

How can I get a review copy of Dan Gartell’s Classic Guidance text? I have been teaching Guidance for years using another text but am thinking of a change. I’ve used Cengage’s Health, Safety, and Nutrition text for years.