Digital Participation Before & During Class

Jason B. Jones / @jbj / Jumpstart 2019

Structuring ParticipationOr, Participation Grades Considered Harmful

Preclass Activities

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• Integrated into Moodle (but can also use as standalone)

• Can annotate any website, or any accessible PDF

• Annotations can be text, or can incorporate links, images, etc. Students can reply to one another’s annotations as well

• Moodle integration takes care of account setup and group creation

• *Therefore* it doesn’t work with public annotations or individual accounts . . . yet

• Integration with Moodle Gradebook coming (already here for Canvas)

• $250 pilot incentive —> see handout

PollEverywhere• Phones/laptops instead of clickers

• Web-based *or* embedded in slideware (PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides)

• Widget for porting TurningTechnology quizzes

• Supports more activities: multiple choice; open response; word clouds; clickable images; up & down voting; rank order; competitions

• Most languages; LaTex; emoji

• Optional Moodle integration for graded quizzing

[to a web browser]