Activity Description: This activity uses Microsoft Teams Social Networking App as a platform for online collaboration. This activity is structured as an online critique that involves students, the instructor, and anyone else invited to the discussion by the instructor. This activity can be reproduced with any subject and can be a group or individual based activity. The activity can be expanded if the Teams you are using includes the video and streaming additional options. This allows instructors to invite their students to online video meeting with the entire class and instruction can happen live. This option also allows the video meeting to be recorded and posted for students to view after the original meeting takes place live.
For this activity students will post an image of their idea planning page in their sketchbook for their pinch rattle project. They are asked to briefly explain their two favorite ideas they have drawn and which one they are considering planning in depth and then creating with clay. Students request feedback on their ideas and then each student comments on two or more student planning ideas. If the live option is available, students can take turns online showing their work. Students can type comments in the chat as the live course is happening.
Students post in threads and can reply in real time. Group postings can expedite critiques and lessen the number of responses students must read. Furthermore, experts, family members, staff, and teachers can be invited to the thread to comment and provide feedback for a more authentic learning experience. The instructor has full control of the length of the discussion time and live video time. If the live option is used, instructors can hide their microphones or cameras at any time. So can students. Instructors can mediate and delete student comments and limit or mute a student or guest at any time.
Standards: Art Standards 1, 9 :Ceramics Art Standards Document 21st Century Standards: Collaboration, Knowledge Constructor, Digital Citizens, Creative Communicator: ISTE Standards Below are screenshots of the Pinch Rattle Microsoft Teams Activity. I have set up the Teams account for any email recipient. The introduction explains the activity, provides a rubric for the planning stage, and provides and example of what students can post. Student replies happen next and the conversation begins and blossoms. This activity is ready to go live anytime!
The image below shows the instructor options set up by the instructor within Teams.
The image below shows the "Meet now" button on the left and the "Stream" button on the right. Meet now allows the instructor to live chat with a class and the stream button allows the instructor to add the recording to a library for students to watch at anytime following the live class.