Building Community in Online Classes
Icebreakers + Getting to Know You Activities
- purpose of icebreakers and Icebreaker glossary
- approaches to introductions
- interviews
- favourite place / object activities
- weather reports
Pair or small group activities
- purpose of breaking students into smaller groups
- breakout room discussions
- group activities on Miro, Jamboard or other collaboration software
- small group forum discussions, where students read and respond to a smaller number of students on a regular or rotating basis
Temperature Checks
- purpose of temperature checks
- thumbs up / thumbs down activities
- renaming self with emotion words (combined with favourite food or fashion trend)
- putting emotion words in the chat
Group Agreements
- purpose of group agreements in creating classroom community and link to group agreements section