Introductory activities
Creative ways to do student introductions on your first week of classes
Equity Unbound teamed up with OneHE to develop open educational resources for online community-building
Maha Bali is undertaking research to discover how educators are using these open resources from Equity Unbound/OneHE. Click the button to find out more and to participate.
In a series of new videos, Equity Unbound present strategies for creating online communities built on principles of equity and care that produce learning spaces in which all students can flourish
Watch the welcome video below to find out why Equity Unbound is creating and curating free community building activities for educators
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Creative ways to do student introductions on your first week of classes
Light and quick activities to do at the beginning or end of class to engage students in low-stakes conversations
Ways to let students know you care, early on and throughout the semester
Microstructures to enable equitable, engaged, creative, constructive dialogue
Creative ways to do student introductions on your first week of classes
Resources to help educators design their courses and for thinking about and planning community building
Diverse ways to structure online conversations throughout the semester
Each of these resources includes a video or text demonstrating or describing the activity or exercise for community-building. We also include descriptive text, slides you can reuse/adapt where relevant, and links to additional resources. We also show you how much time, what kind of resources you need, and different variations on the activity to help you adapt it for your purposes.
Important: Any technique can block some people out, make them feel unwelcome, or be used in a way that privileges some and makes it harder on others. All of these techniques should be used in conjunction with pedagogies of care and what we call Intentionally Equitable Hospitality.
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Introductory activities
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