Started one of my courses today – Product visualization. A course where students learn to use visualization to communicate complex information. Before COVID-19 and when the lecture was on campus the first lecture was basically presenting the structure of the course, assignments, lecture structure etc.
I normally brought with me artefacts from previous years like posters, workbooks etc. And during the lecture, we had a poster session where we presented previous years posters, divided into small teams and reviewed was good and what could be improved.
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| Physical poster session last year |
This year this was a bit different. All student was joining trough zoom and I had created a normal presentation first and then after a while, I sent a link to a shared whiteboard where I had pasted some posters form previous years. The student could browse the posters for a while before we divided the class into 8 smaller teams (using breakout rooms in zoom) were they in small teams discussed and reviewed the posters against the purpose, goal and expectations of the assignment
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| 20 persons interacting in the virtual poster exhibition. |
Reflections
I think it worked fairly well, I did a quick feedback session and some of the feedback was:
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I wish… |
- Great success
- Structured = Good
- The lesson worked without a problem
- I like this kind of lesson, feels more productive than a normal lesson
- It worked well and I like the interactive exercise
- I like seeing other peoples work
- That we still keep the lecture interactive
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- That the sound was better
- I wish that it would be more interaction like som Menti
- Maybe do the practical stuff in the course when all of this is over, for those who want
- I wish it was in VR so we could see and interact with each other better
- More people used cam
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I think that it was interesting that one student even thought that the lecture felt more productive than a normal lecture. And I think that depends highly on what you do in your normal lectures. But if you compare it with a normal one-way presentation with no interaction I agree.
