YellowDig Resources for Faculty
Are you thinking you’d like to use YellowDig to replace your Blackboard discussions? Before you do, I would highly suggest watching the following videos and setting a time to meet with an Instructional Designer to discuss ideas.
- I need a discussion (2 minutes)
- How to Build Strong Communities (5.5 minutes)
- Why no assignments? (5 minutes)
- What ‘no assignments’ really means? (2 minutes)
Also, YellowDig is offering regular free webinars and they are excellent. If you cannot attend, they are all recorded and available afterwards.
Webinar (ASU): History, Efficacy and Instructional Design with Yellowdig (1 hour). Excellent! Shares some updated best practices.
Consider these two visuals of two different types of discussion – “discussion assignments” vs “Discussion Community”.
Image taken from YellowDig video on How to Build YellowDig Communities. Here you see the ‘go getter’ slowly turning into the procrastinator because most students procrastinate toward the deadline for the discussion assignment.
Image taken from YellowDig video on How to Build YellowDig Communities. Here you see a different type of interactive community where specific topic discussions can weave throughout the course and not end when each module ends. The go getter and the procrastinator are now all part of the discussion community.
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