Open Classroom Forum in the New Reid “Bowling” Rooms

by | Mar 5, 2020 | Blog

Help Us Decide the Next Directions for
Instructional Spaces at WCU

What might next steps look like…?  Drop in for any amount of time to help WCU decide

Classroom Layout

The Layout of Our New Rooms

Open Forum on Instructional Spaces and Technologies

Date: Thursday March 19, 2020

Time: 11:00 to 2:00 (Peruse & Comment)

Location: REID 113A and 113B (NEW GENERAL POOL CLASSROOMS)

Come See Come Comment: On these rooms, on future renovations, on what needs to in the classrooms where you teach.

The Academic Space Advisory Board, Coulter Faculty Center, and Instructional Technology want to hear from you as we think about what we’re doing in our classrooms and laboratories over the next five or ten years.

How are our classrooms serving you? How can they evolve to serve you better?

Come See Come Comment

Active Learning Strategies for High Flex Rooms

Help solve WCU’s Blue-desk conundrum
(new furniture options to consider)

Rooms with all-eyes-forward or tables for groups of six or eight.

Whiteboards for Workgroups

Mobile Podium Options

Where is the line between classroom design verses classroom management?

Laptop-Friendly alternates to Electronic Classrooms

 

   Is now the time….

To phase out Electronic Classrooms for High-Flex Rooms?

For BOTH students and instructors to bring their laptops to class?  What’s the future of the instructor’s station?

Talk about room-linking technologies so one instructor can teach concurrently in two or more locations

 

 

Using Microsoft Teams

by | Mar 5, 2020 | CFC Insider, Educational Technology

Did you know that you have one of the most advanced collaboration suites available to use with your students?

The WCU license of Microsoft Teams allows you to create a collaborative classroom light space that your students can access through their Smartphones or their computers.

Every part of Teams other than synchronous video chat does not rely upon a persistent and strong connection and so can be a part of a low-bandwidth continuity of instruction plan.

If you want an overview of how Teams works there is a great on-demand video available from Microsoft here.

Microsoft also offers faculty training on the Microsoft Educator Center including Transform Learning with Microsoft Teams