TRY: Introduce yourself to students via a 1-minute video

To begin to create social presence, introduce yourself in a one-minute video that welcomes your students to the course and describes your teaching philosophy and/or major things you hope they’ll learn via this course. Post your video to the discussion forum. Also include an invitation to your students to introduce themselves either in a text-based forum post or by recording 1-minute videos of themselves stating their names, pronouns if they like, one thought about what they hope to gain from the course (as an example). 

Notes: If you or your students need support completing this task, see these resources for creating video, from simple (e.g., recorded on phone) to slightly more complex (e.g., narrated PPT or Panopto recording).  

The first resource linked above is from LinkedIn Learning – Bryn Mawr has an institutional subscription, and there are *thousands* of resources here, from how-to information about such things as recording video on your phone and using various aspects of Excel to more complex online course modules such as Statistics Fundamentals. These are great and diverse resources that are available to anyone with a Bryn Mawr College login. You can also curate sets of LinkedIn Learning resources for your students to use in your course.