I just don’t understand why Zoom is the de facto videoconferencing solution instead of Google Meet or Hangouts or Duo or Allo or Talk or Hangouts Chat or GTalk or Buzz or Wave or Messages or Spaces or Voice or…
“Why are nonessential @dallaslibrary staff working during a shelter in place order? Respect the health and safety of @CityOfDallas employees and their families.”
Please fully close all types of libraries, to patrons AND staff specifically, in your orders to stay at home & shelter in place. If you don’t, our colleagues will continue to be endangered for no reason.
breaking up synchronous sessions with hands-on. This requires strong skills for virtual presenting. A nice little simple book on this: https://www.amazon.com/Exceptional-Presenter-Goes-Virtual-Person/dp/1608320464:
Koegel, T. (2010). The exceptional presenter goes virtual (1st ed.). Austin, Tex: Greenleaf Book Group Press.
The book, unfortunately, is available through ILL and ILL is suspended.
My university has set up Zoom for us, but what if I just create a Twitch account and my students can watch me play DOOM (2016) while we talk about Milton
\Asking for a “friend,” does anyone know if on a Zoom call whether the host can tell if you’ve navigated to another window – i.e., multi-tasking? I’ve heard of teachers threatening students with this capability.
My note: From a pedagogical point of view, the bigger question is: does one (instructor) need to “big brother” students’ activities, in this case multi-tasking on another window.
Blast from the past: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/04/03/use-of-laptops-in-the-classroom/
Here is the collection of opinions regarding a similar issue 15 years ago: do we have to let students use Internet-connected laptops in the class room and 5 years ago: can we let students use smart phones in the classroom.
The opinion i liked most and side with it: if we (the instructors) are not able to create arresting content and class presence, we should not blame students for straying away from our activities. It does not matter how much control Zoom will give us to “big brother” students, it is up to our teaching, not to the technology to keep students learning
#Gaming #gamification
It looks like @googledocs can’t handle the demand people are putting on the Colleges and universities closed for COVID-19 spreadsheet.
It’s defaulted to view only and I just received 300+ requests to edit. pic.twitter.com/OXKATcL5ca