"Take 5 for Teaching" Five-Minute Workshops - Example, "The Last Day of Class"

Provided by Todd Zakrajsek, Director, Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching (FaCIT), Central Michigan University. EMAIL: zakra1t@cmich.edu


Several examples available at:
http://facit.cmich.edu/whats-on/archive.html

[5 MINUTE VIDEO] "The Last Day of Class"
Need QuickTime or similar player.
http://facit.cmich.edu/videos/tfft-last-day.html

To what extent is it useful to have this available as a 5-minute video recording?
vs. Audio recording?
vs. Text description?

Which combinations of video, audio, text, etc. and a possible face-to-face session would be especially useful? For which purposes?

List of main points from video presentation:

• Food
• Undergrad research possibilities
• Review syllabus
• Link course content to life
• Greet students by name
• Ask for student feedback
• Discuss what current students would write to students who take course next term
• Discuss next semester
• 3 most important things learned in course
• Describe what TEACHER has learned
• Self-addressed stamped envelopes for students - encourage later feedback
• Course-evaluation survey at BEGINNING of session
• Resist urge to cram in more topics
• Discuss purpose of course and hopes