WSTKS-FM Worldwide. . . Digital Collaborative Learning for the 21st Century
By Professor Schwartz
WSTKS-FM Worldwide. . . Digital Collaborative Learning for the 21st CenturyOct 07, 2022
Episode 110 -- 4 Digital Traps to Dodge
In today's program, Professor Schwartz shares information on common digital and cloud-based traps student learning teams should avoid as they develop their third collaborative project.
Episode 109 -- Are You Undermining Your Student Learning Team?
In this episode, Professor Schwartz points out four ways students unwittingly risk undercutting their learning team cohesion and functionality.
Episode 108 -- Watch Out for These Three (Late Semester) Collaborative Hazards!
In this episode, Professor Schwartz points out three common pitfalls that can derail your student learning team late in the game if you're not careful.
Episode 107 -- Fine-tune Your Student Learning Team Dynamic in Four Steps
Pull up a chair and listen in as Professor Schwartz highlights four steps your student learning team can take to perfect its collaborative approach for the final third of the course.
Episode 106 -- 3 Steps to Create a Top-Notch Digital Readers' Guide
In today's program, Professor Schwartz outlines three steps your student learning team can take to develop a thoughtful, informative, and visually dynamic digital reader's guide.
Episode 105 -- Ensure Your Student Learning Team Is on Track
In today's program, Professor Schwartz discusses five steps your student learning team can take to ensure it is on the right track for the second half of the course.
Episode 104 -- Essential Team Values to Revisit and Reestablish Post-Spring Break
In this episode, Professor Schwartz highlights four essential values for your student learning team to review when members reconvene following Spring Break.
Episode 103 -- 4 Tools in Google Drive to Foster More Effective Collaboration
Pull up a chair and join Professor Schwartz as he walks you through four specific tools in Google Drive and the advantages they can bring to your student learning team when they become part of your team work habits and practices each week.
Episode 102 -- Three Steps to Improve Your Learning Team Practices
In this episode, Professor Schwartz outlines three steps your student learning team can take to streamline its collaborative practices and work habits.
Episode 100 -- Key Roles Your Learning Team Members Can Play
Avoid Internal learning team confusion and discord by following the advice Professor Schwartz offers on the roles your members can play during weekly collaboration.
Episode 101- 4 Keys to Establish Consistent Member "Presence" within Your Student Learning Team
Listen in as Professor Schwartz discusses for keys to establish consistent member "presence" as a part of your student learning team this semester.
Episode 99 -- 6 Tips to Help Solidify Your New Student Learning TEam
Join Professor Schwartz in the Collaborative Cafe on the ground floor of the WSTKS-FM Worldwide studios to learn six pointers that will help your student learning team begin its collaborative activities for the semester.
Episode 98 -- Look Forward to These Three Features of IAH209 Horror Cinema!
Join Professor Schwartz to learn all about the exciting features, approaches, and procedures you can expect in IAH209 Horror Cinema this semester!
Episode 97 -- Empower Yourself and Your Student Learning Team with These 3 Habits
This time, Professor Schwartz discusses the habits you and your team can adopt to empower yourselves and improve course outcomes.
Epsiode 95 -- Check Off These Three Tasks for Collaborative Project #3
This time, Professor Schwartz shares information on the three related tasks your student learning team should address within Collaborative Project #3.
Episode 94 -- Late Semester Truths about This IAH Course
Grab a chair and listen in as Professor Schwartz walks you through four inconvenient“truths” to keep in mind as you wrap up your independent and collaborative work for the course.
Episode 93 -- How to Help a Struggling Teammate
This time around, Professor Schwartz offers four steps your learning team can take to help a member struggling with their end-of-semester commitments and improve team cohesion in the process.
Episode 92 -- Quick and Easy FIxes to Improve Student Learning Team Cohesion
Join Professor Schwartz as he walks you through four quick and easy fixes you can apply to the remaining collaborative activities in your student learning team during the final five weeks of the course.
Episode 91 -- Three Reasons Why Texts, Chats, and Emails Might Not Be the Best Communication Choices for Your Student Learning Team
Listen in as Professor Schwartz shares three reasons why text messages, chat threads, and email chains alone fall short of effective communication and collaboration practices.
Episode 90 -- 3 Ways to ENhance Your Digital Collaborative Learning
Today, Professor Schwartz walks you through a few ways you can augment your digital and collaborative learning in the course.
Episode 89 -- How to Avoid Alienating Your Student Learning Teammates
Join Professor Schwartz to learn four ways to avoid becoming an unwelcome liability in your student learning team.
Episode 88 -- Cultivate These Four Practices to Facilitate Great Cohesion in Your Student Learning Team
In this episode, Professor Schwartz walks you through four practices your student learning team can cultivate to facilitate greater cohesion and more effective collaboration for the remainder of the course..
Episode 87 -- 6 Changes Your Student Learning Team Can Make to Its Cololaborative Approach
This time, Professor Schwartz suggests six changes your student learning team can make to its collaborative approach, setting the stage for easier, more effective teamwork each week.
Episode 86 -- The Three Components of Collaborative Project #1
Pull up a chair and listen in as Professor Schwartz covers the three key components of your first collaborative project.
Episode 85 -- 4 Habits to Cultivate for Stress-Free Digital Collaboration
In today’s episode, Professor Schwartz discusses the four habits that pave the way toward easier digital collaborative learning for the 21st century.
Episode 84 -- Four Questions to Ponder in Week Two
Grab a chair and listen in as Professor Schwartz walks you through four questions you can use if you’re a little stuck on how to start your very first reflection on, and self-assessment of your learning for Week Two of your IAH course.
Episode 83 -- 3 Things You Can Look forward to in IAH209 Film Noir
Join Professor Schwartz to learn all about what you expect in IAH209 Film this semester!
Episode 82 -- 4 Incredibly Useful Tools in Your Digital Collaborative Toolbox
Listen in as Professor Schwartz directs your attention to four highly useful tools your student learning team can utilize throughout your coursework together this semester.
Episode 81 -- What's H-O-T HOT about Digital Collaborative Learning?
Listen in as Professor Schwartz explains how his approach to teaching and learning for the 21st century is the polar opposite of a traditional lecture and exam-based course. Digital collaborative learning: . . So hot, it sizzles!
EQ Test -- Shure MV7 (Aug. 03, 2023)
Modified EQ for primary voice track, which is also 1.5dB higher in the mix than other seven tracks. All eight tracks normalized to -1dB. Overall balance of levels seems very good.
Episode 80 -- 5 Ways to Practice Digital Collaborative Empathy and Understanding
In today’s program, Professor Schwartz covers five ways you can practice digital collaborative empathy and understanding within your student learning team.
Episode 79 -- For Easy Collaboration Start with a Team Contract!
Join ProfessorSchwartz to learn about how your student learning team can pave the way to success through the development of a team contract.
Episode 78 -- 3 Steps toward Defining the Core Values of Your Student Learning Team
This time, Professor Schwartz explains three concrete steps your student learning team can take to formulate its core values, providing a firm foundation for a more cohesive learning team experience. Carry out this vital step toward team cohesion and more effective collaboration right away during your Week Three meeting when you convene for the first time.
Episode 77 -- How "All Together" Is Your Student Learning Team?
In today’s episode, Professor Schwartz highlights the five characteristics of an “all together” team dynamic. Is your team dynamic all for one, and one for all?
Episode 76 -- Three Features of Effective Digital-Collaborative Learning
In this episode, Professor Schwartz outlines three features of effective digital-collaborative learning that should be central to your student learning teamwork each week.
Episode 75 -- Is Your Studelent Learning Team Making These Common Mistakes?
Listen in as Professor Schwartz highlights four mistakes to avoid in your student learning team collaboration each week.
Episode 74 -- Use the 4-3-2-1 Technique in Your Digital-Collaborative Activities
Pull up a chair, have a seat, and listen in as Professor Schwartz walks you through the 4-3-2-1 Technique, a method to help your student learning team identify questions you have about course materials, develop coherent answers, and determine clear paths forward in your work together this semester.
Episode 73 -- 5 Digital-Collaborative Routines to Establish at the Outset
In this episode, Professor Schwartz covers five key habits you’ll want to establish right away as part of your student learning team’s interaction and work together each week.
Episode 72 -- 5 Ways to Cultivate a Culture of Digital-Collaborative Accountibility
Join Professor Schwartz to learn about five ways your student learning team can cultivate a culture of accountability!
Episode 71 -- Digital-Collaboratiuve Learning in a Nurshell
Listen in as Professor Schwartz walks you through the digital-collaborative learning around which his courses are designed and a few key benefits of the approach.
Episode 70 -- Solve Any Team Issue in Four Easy Steps!
Join Professor Schwartz to learn about the Four-Step Creative Problem-Solving Framework than will help your student learning team move forward in a more decisive way.
Episode 69 -- Who IS Professor Schwartz? Five Things Not Everyone Knows about Me
Join Professor Schwartz for a peek behind the curtain to learn a bit about what makes him tick when he isn’t wearing his professor hat.
Episode 68 -- 5 Key Points to Address in Your Course Capstone Project
Listen in as Professor Schwartz details five key points you need to address in your individual semester reflection on and self-assessment of your activities in his 15-week course.
Episode 67 -- Four 'Big Picture' Ideas to Keep in Mind
Join Professor Schwartz as he discusses four big picture ideas to keep in mind as your student learning team creates, refines, and completes Collaborative Project #3.
Episode 66 -- Your MAJOR Take-away from This Digital Collaborative Course
Join Professor Schwartz as he talks about the ‘Global Competence’ students cultivate within his Humanities courses on film, literature, and drama.
Episode 65 -- The Three Key Parts of a Collaborative Project
Listen in as Professor Schwartz discusses the three vital components of any collaborative project he asks student learning teams to complete in the courses he teaches.
Episode 64 -- Recharge Your Student Learning Team’s Collaborative Spirit in 4 Easy Steps
Listen in as Professor Schwartz discusses a few easy steps your student learning team can take to recharge its collaborative batteries and finish the semester on a strong note.
Epsiode 63 -- 9 Ways Your Student Learning Team Can Use ChatGPT to Manage Its Collaborative Projects
This time, Professor Schwartz explains some of the ways your student learning team can use ChatGPT to manage, complete, and submit your collaborative projects for the course.
Episode 62 -- Common Misconceptions about Professor Schwartz's IAH Courses
Listen in as Professor Schwartz addresses four common misconceptions about the Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities courses he teaches.
Episode 61 -- Revisit, Document, and Modify Your Collaborative Process
Join Professor Schwartz to learn a four-step process to help your student learning team review and revise your collaborative activities, so it can finish the course on a strong note.