Book Review: Dungeons and Dreamers

(The image is from Culver 2020) The game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), with a Dungeons Masters who create and guide players through worlds filled with monsters, treasure and intrigue, and with dice rolls deciding key outcomes. At its core, D&D is about collaborative storytelling with friends.  Book: King, Brad & John Borland (2014). Dungeons &Continue reading “Book Review: Dungeons and Dreamers”

Discussion: Activate Participation and Student Choices

For Discussion Facilitation Project, we have designed on Active Participation and Student Choices. And we received positive feedback from the participants and instructor. This discussion aims to find out how to activate class participation by giving students the power of choice. Our goals in this project are to encourage deeper thinking over the following questions:    WhyContinue reading “Discussion: Activate Participation and Student Choices”

Quality Learning and Teaching

I am going to design my courses based on the following guidelines of Quality Learning and Teaching and Universal Design for Learners (UDL). (With the expectation to design for each learner and meet their individual learning goals, a test-driving plan for the course is given in Reflection 4: Teaching Plan of Action for COMM4230 NonverbalContinue reading “Quality Learning and Teaching”

Microteaching Demonstration

Microteaching Demonstration Class Plan 1. Course Title & Class Description Course Title: Intercultural Communication Class: Week 3 — Cultural Diversity — Looking through Nonverbal Communication 2. Learner Description The course “Intercultural Communication” is offered to college students who are in COMM major and have taken at least one pathway class such as “Communication and Diversity”,Continue reading “Microteaching Demonstration”