The document provides 5 ways to engage students: 1) Enliven lecture materials with videos and stories, 2) Encourage students to respond to lectures and discussions using multimedia platforms, 3) Use discussion forums that allow video and audio responses, 4) Assign multimedia projects where students create videos, and 5) Hold live virtual events for students to participate in real-time activities and presentations. The goal is to pique students' interest and motivate learning through interactive and multimedia experiences.

1. 5 Ways to Engage Students
K.D. Borcoman
Coastline Community College
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Alaska

2. What is Student Engagement?
• In education, student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity,
interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or
being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and
progress in their education.
• The Glossary of Education Reform

3. How Do You Do It?
• Enliven lecture and presentation materials: video clips,
cartoons, stories
• Encourage students to utilize YouTube and other
applications and platforms to respond to lectures and
discussions
• Extra credit works!

4. Discussion Forums
• Using video and audio to respond to a forum posting
• Why? Web 2.0
• How?

5. Why Use Video?
• Video creates an emotional connection with users
through story.
• Video is a valuable method for demonstrations.
• Video helps model soft skills.
• Video breaks up content and adds interest.

6. The Four E’s of Effective Learning:
A Useful Heuristic for Teaching
St. John’s University

7. Engaging Interest
• Learning begins with focused attention
• We can capture and hold student attention
through use of:
• Personal vignettes
• Real-life examples
• Interactive exercises
• Lecture starters that pique interest, such as
movie clips
St. John’s University

8. Mastery Quizzing Study
• What is Mastery Quizzing?
• pre-post quizzes during the semester of specific
concepts discussed during class
• Students have two chances to get the right answer
and earn credit toward final grade—at the very
beginning of class and at the end
• Mastery quizzing provides incentives for
attendance, punctuality, and attention

9. The Brain Loves a Puzzle
Puzzles Challenge the Mind to Think
Pose puzzling questions at the beginning of class:

10. The Brain Loves a Puzzle
Puzzles Challenge the Mind to Think

11. Self-Tests

12. Adding a YouTube Video to A Discussion Forum

13. Discussion Forum Video Response
Critical Thinking—Fallacies

14. Video/Multimedia Projects
• Creating a YouTube-or similar- video as a collaborative or individual effort
• Why?
• How?

15. Resources
• Camtasia
• YouTube
• iTunes
• Audacity
• Blackboard Collaborate
• Pinnacle
• Moviemaker
• PowerPoint

16. Video/Multimedia Project- EBUS Korea:
Humanities

17. Video/Multimedia Project- Critical Thinking
Coastline College

18. Special Online Events-SLOOH
ECLIPSE OF THE MOON: APRIL 15, 2014

19. Contact with the International Space Station
• Amateur Radio K6KDB
• Telebridge
• Direct Contact

20. Contact with ISS and
Kline School, Costa Mesa, CA

21. How to you arrange Contact with the ISS?
http://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-on-the-international-space-station

22. Univ. of Alaska--Synchronous “Field Activities”
• A “real time” event-SLOOH-Canary Islands

23. Blackboard Collaborate Student Presentations

24. Historical Moments: ISDN and the Model
Classroom 1999

25. Summary
Student
Engagement
Multimedia
Presentations
Wake-up
Discussion boards
Live Virtual
Events
Blackboard
Collaborate