Way #3: Promote Ice-Breaking Activities for Making Class Introductions

In How to Build an Online Learning Community (In 2020) https://www.learnworlds.com/build-online-learning-community/ via @learnworlds 

During the early part of an online course, it is critical for class members to get to know one another, and learn to share things from an online class community.

A good idea is to create a discussion thread called “Introduce Yourself.” It’s also fruitful to present yourself too.

These discussion threads enable the teacher to identify learners with similar interests and help her to group learners for collaborative work later on in the course.

Putting it into Practice

One way that “Introduce Yourself” activities can be executed are by using the Discussion forum in D2L Brightspace. 

Another tool that can be used to facilitate introductions as FlipGrid. You can create an Introduction prompt on Flipgrid and your students can submit their video prompts on Flipgrid and respond to one another.

Tools:

• D2L – Create a Forum
• D2L – Create a Discussion Topic
• Flipgrid –  How to Teach Remotely with Flipgrid