Icebreakers
This presentation addresses the challenges of maintaining an interactive Zoom classroom in which all students are acknowledged and motivated. After discussing icebreakers strategies, discussion focuses on the sustained use of such devices, including Instagram pep talks, in order to maintain a communal ethos and student morale during remote classes over the course of a full semester.
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Thomas A. Underwood
rhetoric@bu.eduThomas Underwood, whose courses include, “The Rhetoric of Freedom in America,” is the recipient of many awards for teaching college writing, including the Arthur G.B. Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University’s “highest teaching honor.” For his work teaching at Harvard College,…