compliance

So my worry is you will leave, that would be a downer of the College of Communication and Information

I like to use roundtable discussions, which are made much more difficult.

Loss of nuance in non-verbal signifiers

I have found that students value being in a classroom

That has worked for me too.

Second that praise of CELT training!

Derek: are your breakout rooms working ok?

CELT is awesome!

I feel like there are 10 additional technological steps before you can even start teaching and sometimes that time at the beginning of class is important for connecting with students. That feels lost by the multiple modalities.

Yes. Breakout rooms work great as long as students you the Zoom App instead of the web interface. I have a success story regarding game theory and an online Prisoner’s Dilemma that we experienced this week that was the best experience I have had with game theory and the Nash Equilibrium.

Derek, I want to take your class!

One instructor I spoke with has a recurring interactive activity that occurs at a different time each class period. She feels it creates a sense of anticipation and expectation that boosts engagement.

Jennifer, you are welcome any time!

There’s a lot of new equipment out there and a lot of instructors adapting. Hopefully each week will get better

The Truman Show?

Wayne’s World

Excellent! Party time!

Can you drop that book info into the chat

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https://wvupressonline.com/node/803

Anyone who wants it, the dean is buying! Just let me know and we can order some copies for the college for you all to use, share!

book club?

Yay! I want one.

I’ll take one, please.

I would like a copy, please

I would like a copy of intentional tech book

I’ll like a copy

I'd like one

I would love a copy.

Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching by Derek Bruff (2019). West Virginia University Press. Derek is still at Vanderbilt

We’ll order a group for “check out” (keeping Tina N happy!).

I'd like a copy.

I would like a copy as well.

Brene Brown has a talk about FFT (naughty word - first - time) where she talks about how everything is bad the first time you do it. Here's a write up about it - https://forge.medium.com/bren%C3%A9-browns-advice-for-when-you-feel-like-shutting-down-e809b94fcb40

Love that, Will. Thanks for sharing.

She suggests naming it, normalize it, and reset expectations.

Well it adds a third shift of media producer to everything

"Unessay"? Please share.

You try to intake, evaluate, and pivot on a daily basis. And also be there for students in ways you sense they need. So it’s challenging.

That requires a relationship. This is much tougher to do now that instructors haven’t actually met these students. And then there’s the masks.

Unessay: https://s18tot.ryancordell.org/assignments/unessay/

Thanks, Derek.

Indeed! I use my hands and arms a lot more—trying to emote in different ways.

Original citation for uneasy: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/Teaching/the-unessay

Thanks Will. I love Brene Brown

OK--I do this--students create a handout with text and graphics that they share with the class.

Thanks Derek and all: these are very creative ideas

I wonder if small group work using breakout rooms where the instructor visits each group might bring everyone closer together.

That’s what I miss about Zoom now.

Broad, deep question: How do we shift our thinking from “We’re holding on until things go back to ‘normal’ “ to “I’m reinventing how I interact with students and doing what I love to do.”

@Scott, that can be a good way to foster more intimate discussion and connection

Scott, using the Breakout Rooms and having the instructor go back and forth between rooms really does make a different in community.

Jennifer: Great question. I know I am still thinking about getting back to "normal". Need to enlarge my thinking on this

I second that Kevin

Jennifer Greer — I think the answer to your reinvention question is a continual building and centralization of easy access resources for instructors and when assigned, students. I think the Teach Anywhere site is a good good start.

Since there is discussion of 'normal', @ Kathi, can you comment on any discussions of what spring might look like in terms of teaching/on campus experience?

i hear from Senate Council that we will know something more next week about the Spring calendar

Beyond the calendar, is the expectation that face to face is back in the spring? we continue with faculty modifying their modality? Any discussion, yet, of what Admin thinks instruction will look like in the spring.

Or is it just too early?

Will — we’ll turn to that in a minute. It did come up in our meeting.

I love that, Jeff!

Jeff: and also how we frame a larger discussions about “modalities”

Agreed!

Great idea to build in frequent feedback that asks students to reflect on what they’ve learned.

Thanks Kathi, Trey, Ashley, Jill, Alicia and all. The intentional prep by faculty has been amazing and we should all acknowledge it. And CELT and their office hours has been a lifeline to better teaching for me.

thanks, Kevin!

Thank you for the kind words, Kevin. We’ve been so impressed by the work that faculty have done.

Thank you for your support of our efforts, Kevin!

Preach!

It takes a lot of time. No doubt about it.

Now exposed to Echo, Zoom, Canvas and Teams in classroom settings in 6 months…now evaluating all of the above in a quickly changing attendance environment. So, pretty open!

My guess is that modality will be determined by the status of the pandemic.

Bingo.

Yes, that is greatly needed. I don’t worry about our college courses but based on what students have shared, many other units on campus need a lot of assistance with providing strong hybrid and online courses.

Thank you all! I have another meeting at 2:30. Make it a great weekend!

To all of you, this was a great conversation. If you would like to do this again, we will happily join your forum.

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Thank you Kathi and the rest of your team, very helpful.

I am sorry I have to go to another meeting. Thanks to all the great faculty and your hard work this semester!

Thank you for inviting us in to your conversation.

Thank you everyone for a great conversation!

Thank you for having us. Best of luck with rest of the fall semester. Please reach out if you have any questions, comments, or would like to schedule a consultation.

So very nice to see you all. Please do visit our open office hours or reach out to any of us to follow up.

Thanks much—always helpful.