{"id":1581,"date":"2020-08-05T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2020-08-05T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:31:04","slug":"the-first-day-of-class-on-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/all-news\/the-first-day-of-class-on-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Day of Class on Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-title\"><strong>A Four-Step Plan: The First Day of Class on Zoom<\/strong> -Crystal O. Wong, Faculty Focus<\/p>\n<p>Creating a vibrant community is always on my mind, so the very first thing I do on the first day of class is pass around a tray of cookies and ask students to talk about their favorite type of cookie. Immediately, the room is filled with surprise, smiles, and chatter. That is why I was stumped when a colleague asked, \u201cWhat do we do on the first day of class on Zoom?\u201d My impulse was to think about replicating those successful first-day activities, but what works face-to-face doesn\u2019t necessarily translate well online. So, what should we do? To answer my colleague\u2019s question, I write this article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/online-education\/a-four-step-plan-the-first-day-of-class-on-zoom\/?st=FFdaily;sc=FF200805;utm_term=FF200805&amp;utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=A+Four-Step+Plan%3A+The+First+Day+of+Class+on+Zoom&amp;utm_campaign=FF200805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Four-Step Plan: The First Day of Class on Zoom -Crystal O. Wong, Faculty Focus Creating a vibrant community is always on my mind, so the very first thing I do on the first day of class is pass around a tray of cookies and ask students to talk about their favorite type of cookie&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,62],"tags":[63,81],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-distance-learning","tag-distance-learning","tag-student-engagement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}