1 April 2019
09:00–10:00
Moataz Al Alfi Hall
This session is about various classroom activities that can be implemented with the help of the VoxVote online voting platform.
Nowadays educators have to keep up with technological development and implement new digital tools in their Interdisciplinary Courses. Therefore, this session aims to demonstrate attendees several assignments that both the speaker and her students conceived with the help of a VoxVote online tool within the framework of the First Year Seminar: English for Liberal Arts (FYS). The speaker is also going share her personal achievements and drawbacks when teaching FYS using this tool. The speaker will share a tip why the number of questions per quiz should not exceed more than ten questions, and why it is preferably to ask 4-5 open-ended questions per quiz. In addition, the attendees will get acquainted with some technical characteristics of the voting platform. It is worth mentioning that the presenter will share the rubric that she has used to evaluate the student quizzes. Moreover, the participants of the session will be provided with the step-by-step instruction to fulfill individual and group assignments. Finally, along with the advantages, the speaker will talk about disadvantages that she faced when implementing VoxVote tool in her classes.
