The T1V Academy offers a place for the T1V community to learn more about leveraging all of the unique features of our collaboration solutions - so you can take your Hub experience to the next level.
The latest video in the T1V Academy training series offers advice on how to create an active learning session with ThinkHub Connect.
Watch the video or keep reading the article below for specific tools on how ThinkHub Connect enhances education for instructors and students alike.
Imagine you’ve come into your classroom and are creating lecture content on your interactive Canvas for ThinkHub Connect’s instructor station - or perhaps you’ve prepped a Session at home and are opening it once it’s time for class.
Use the built-in Groups app throughout your lecture to organize and manipulate content on the Canvas. The Group Legend is baked into the ThinkHub Connect Menu, which lets you know how many Groups are on the screen at one time. Tap on the Group Legend to quickly access each Group.
For an educational course, instructors often have some type of presentation with lecture slides or notes for class. This might look like a PowerPoint presentation in Microsoft Office, or a deck for a class presentation in Google Workspace. Tap the present button within the built-in web browser app on the Canvas to present the slides in full-screen mode.
When presenting on the Instructor Station at the front of the class, you can click through your slide deck and even bring up drawing tools for annotation on the slides. Bring the annotation toolset closer to you by tapping on the bottom of the screen. Highlight pieces of content on the Canvas with annotation - so students can focus on exactly what you are teaching.
ThinkHub Dock allows instructors to dock pieces of content on an additional screen in the classroom. Dock content like a specific presentation slide if a student is still focused on taking notes or solving a problem from a previous slide and needs some more time - but the instructor can simultaneously move on to the next slide on the iInstructor Station.
When you are ready to jump to another Group, bring up the Group Legend by selecting the Menu and tapping on the Groups icon.
Another example of an active learning Group type could be last night’s homework assignment - add it to the Canvas as a PDF, image file, or through any web-based application.
Finally, create an active learning lesson by grouping Notes with questions for student groups to work in today’s lesson - right at their student stations. Here, the instructor would select a problem and cast it to all student stations at once. The instructor can also annotate on the problem, write out the formula - all in real time, keeping students engaged throughout the lesson.
Close out class with homework problems for the next session. Dock the content in the room, cast it to students, take it full-screen for students to view - or do all of these at once - so students can solely focus on the problem they need to solve.
Don’t forget to save the ThinkHub Session so you can easily come back to your Canvas next class.
Watch T1V Application Engineer Molly Garrett give the full demo of a ThinkHub Connect active learning session here.
Additional T1V Trainings:
How to Use Built-In Apps in ThinkHub with AirConnect
How to Upload and Download Content in ThinkHub with AirConnect
How to Join a ThinkHub Session with AirConnect
View, Point and Control ThinkHub in AirConnect
Schedule and Join a ThinkHub Session Remotely
How To Import and Edit Google Docs in ThinkHub
How to Save and Resume ThinkHub Sessions
A Remote Participant’s Guide to ThinkHub