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Home / Scaffolding the Online Seminar: Honors 136—Art, Entertainment, & Social Change    

Scaffolding the Online Seminar: Honors 136—Art, Entertainment, & Social Change    

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March 7, 2024

Presenters: Terri Anderson

10 am -11 am | Zoom


What to Expect in the Showcase:

In this showcase, the instructor will explain and illustrate the genesis and process of scaffolding a seminar aiming for student success in a student-led online hybrid Honors seminar. Student performance is extraordinarily engaged and advanced; student response is overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Topics to be covered include: 

•   How to scaffold student engagement in a seminar

•   The unique value of an entirely online hybrid seminar

•   How to effectively use the online format—including working with Zoom, using the chat bar, effectively using discussion forums, and so on

•   How to develop an original and challenging, yet level-appropriate and doable, set of materials

•   How to coach students through creating an effective presentation

Presenter Bio:

Terri Anderson is a Continuing Lecturer with Sociology and the Honors Program. She teaches a wide variety of Sociology courses, including Introductory Sociology, Research Methods, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Emotions, Self & Society, Social Psychology, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Mental Illness, Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Family, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Mass Communication, Food & Society, and Hip & Cool: A Study of Distinction & Exclusion. She has developed three online hybrid seminars for the Honors Program: Art, Entertainment, & Social Change; Between the Species: The Human/Non-Human Animal Relationship; and Living Consciously: Philosophy in Everyday Life. Following a 20+ year career of in-person teaching, Dr. Anderson has been teaching online since 2017, and is currently redeveloping her Sociology of Mental Illness course (cross-listed with Disability Studies) for delivery throughout the entire UC system via UC Online.

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