April 7 Day 30: Online Wait Time

Getting better at online interactivity. 24/25 present. Started with group presentations; student spokespeople  sharing computer screens. We worked  examples, discussed writing, and ended with a mini lecture. I ask a lot of questions. Giving sufficient wait time for student responses is harder in a remote class room than in a face-to-face one. Seven seconds seems like an eternity. To speed things up,  I generated a randomly ordered list of names and put them in a shared google doc.  For each question, I ask the next person on the list. Students  know when their  turn is approaching and the hope is they are more prepared to unmute (or type) and answer.