Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Facilitators:
Melissa Mullis
Email: melissa.mullis@gsuite.viu.ca
Text: 778-677-7906
Thai Nguyen
Email: thai.nguyen@gsuite.viu.ca
Wendy Preston
Email: wendy.preston@gsuite.viu.ca
Seminar 4 Outcomes
● Examine the usefulness of icebreakers in building online communities.
● Debate the role of social media as a tool for building online communities.
● Review current research and discuss how to build a strategy for building a cohesive and
vibrant online community
Seminar Activities:
Activity Description Suggested Due Date
Time
Required Resources:
Palloff, R.M. & Pratt, K. (2013).Lessons from the Virtual Classroom :The Realities of
Online Teaching. San Francisco, CA; John Wiley & Sons Inc. pp 125-126 and 142-154.
(Available as an e-book from the VIU library.)
O’Malley, S. (2017). Professors share ideas for building community in online courses.
Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/07/26/ideas-building-online-
community
Pacansky-Brock, M. (2013). Student voices: what makes an online class feel more
human? Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=255xC5js8G4&index=43&list=PLxmp2OnJJbw5rScS
eMx6Dos0bbgrvUd4Q
Talbert, R. (2015). How student video presentations can build community in an online
course. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/how-student-video-presentations-can-bui
ld-community-in-an-online-course/57435
Lowenthal, P.R. & Dunlap, J.C. (2010). From pixel on a screen to real person in your
students’ lives: Establishing social presence using digital storytelling. Internet and
Higher Education (13), p. 70-72.
Available through VIU library.