Equity Unbound

Community building activities

Equity Unbound teamed up with OneHE to develop open educational resources for online community-building

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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.

Community Building Online Learning Path

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

Why is building a sense of community important?

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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Introductory activities (Equity Unbound)

Introductory activities Creative ways to do student introductions on your first week of classes. Activity The purpose of the activity is to help students to

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Warm up activities (Equity Unbound)

Warm up activities Light and quick activities to do at the beginning or end of class to engage students in low-stakes conversations. Equity Unbound Activity

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Setting the tone activities (Equity Unbound)

Setting the tone activities Ways to let students know you care, early on and throughout the semester. This activity helps to promote positive student-teacher connections.

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Liberating Structures (Equity Unbound)

Liberating Structures Microstructures to enable equitable, engaged, creative, constructive dialogue. Equity Unbound Activity Help people express and face their fears in a way that can

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Ongoing engagement (Equity Unbound)

Ongoing engagement Diverse ways to structure online conversations throughout the semester. Activity, Equity Unbound Activity This activity can be used in any course for getting

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Reflective activities (Equity Unbound)

Reflective activities Creative ways to do student introductions on your first week of classes. Use this reflective activity to bring students together to talk about

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Guidance and help (Equity Unbound)

Guidance and help Resources to help educators design their courses and for thinking about and planning community building. Equity Unbound Activity Particularly helpful to facilitate

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How to use these resources

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.

As you watch/read any of these, please let us know:

If you find that the activity is not hospitable to a certain group.
If you try an adaptation of this activity, or try it as is and have interesting results to share, please contribute your adaptation/reflection.
If you have an activity or resource that you want to contribute.

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