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How to Create Active and Engaging Learning Experiences with Zoom Breakout Rooms We will begin shortly. Please answer the brief poll question. If you have any breakout room activities youd like to share, please post them in Q&A. Ron

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How to Create Active and Engaging Learning Experiences with Zoom Breakout Rooms

We will begin shortly. Please answer the brief poll

  • question. If you have any breakout room activities you’d

like to share, please post them in Q&A.

Ron Owston, PhD Research Associate, Contact North Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto, Canada

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Agenda

  • 1. Why use

breakout rooms?

  • 2. How to set up

breakout rooms

  • 3. Breakout room

activities

  • 4. Return to whole

class and sharing

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  • 1. Why use breakout rooms?
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Breakout rooms…

Support active learning Maintain engagement Foster community building

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Guiding principles…

Equitable distribution of labour Sustained work may be better Get rid of grade competition within group? Assign prework Define activity boundaries

Davidson et al, Inside Higher Education

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  • 2. Setting up breakout rooms

credit Business Insider

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Pre-assigned breakout rooms

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Self-selecting breakout room – student view

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Enable desired tools before moving to rooms

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Questions and poll

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  • 3. Engaging breakout room activities
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Discussion groups

Make sure to structure task Assign student responsibilities eg facilitator, recorder, researchers, reporter

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Other discussion ideas…

Think – pair – share

  • r Round Robin
  • r Jigsaw

3 – 2 – 1

  • 3 things learned
  • 2 interesting points
  • 1 question to discuss in

groups

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Whiteboard collaboration

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Instructor-prepared whiteboard activity

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Whiteboard-like collaboration

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Collaboration with multi-user external tools

Everyone reduces Zoom screen Everyone logs into document and can edit Zoom used for discussion

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Google Jamboards

External whiteboards

Explaineverything.com

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Wiki activities

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Google Docs – collaborative writing

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Google Slides – each group adds slide to instructor-prepared deck

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Collaboration with single-user external tools/documents

One student opens app and shares screen Sharer edits doc and leads discussion When another student wants to edit, control is requested

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Collaboration on specialized tools

http://mathworks.com

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Request to control a shared screen

Jack sees this Ron sees this

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Other breakout room activity ideas

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Create memes Canva.com

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Escape rooms examples – first to solve and return to class and wins!

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What are your ideas?

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  • 3. Reporting back to full class

Oral presentations Random oral presentation by a several + written report for all Instructor prepared template Teach mini-lesson Video played and/or posted

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Summary of breakout room activities

DISCUSSIONS – STRUCTURES, THINK- PAIR-SHARE, 3-1-1 WHITEBOARD – ZOOM AND EXTERNAL CLOUD SPECIALIZED TOOLS WIKIS GOOGLE – DOCS, SLIDES, JAMBOARDS MEMES ESCAPE ROOMS

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Challenge – in your next class try a new breakout room idea!

Dec 16 Ask Ron anything about teaching with Zoom