Monday, August 10, 2020

Zoom: Meeting Remotely in the COVID-19 Era

Meeting Remotely Using Zoom or other Conferencing Solutions 




Zoom Fatigue is Real-Why are video calls so draining.
And how to reduce the fatigue

8 Ways to Save Your Audience from Zoom Fatigue
We’ve all been there. Meeting leader never acknowledged you. You can read, so why is he reading the slides? Addressing other irritations that will keep your attendees wanting more.

25 Strategies to Engage Your Students in Next Zoom Meeting

Facilitating Active Learning in Zoom Class
Breakout rooms, polling, facilitating online labs

Zoom Guide for Participants
What do participants need to join a meeting? What do the controls do? and more from U of Washington

25 Ways to Make Your Zoom Meetings Awesome
Some interesting suggestions from Entrepreneur.inc

Using the Zoom Waiting Room
See the User section for instructions on how to turn on Waiting Room feature.

Zoom Using Waiting Room for Office Hours or To Control Who Can Join
This video (4min) shows how to be the gatekeeper and control when and who joins your session.

How to Change Your Zoom Background
Everything you need to know about how to change what Zoom sees behind you.

6 Tips to Deter Zoom-Bombers
These tips are important in order to avoid uninvited guests to your Zoom meetings/classes.

A Plan for Resisting Zoombombing
Suggestions on how to handle a Zoombombing incident.

Etiquette Tips and Best Practices for VideoConferencing
The document is has advice for both the host and participants.
Consider using the recommended housekeeping tips.

Tips and Tricks for Teachers Educating on Zoom
Consider this a short guide with Best Practices and other tips for doing Zoom meetings.

How to Zoom
Short YouTube videos covering most of Zoom's features

8 Ways to Be More Inclusive in Your Zoom Teaching
More tips for improving the connection with your students.

UPDATE: Zoom Basic Accounts Require Password, Waiting Room Turned on by Default
It’s the times we live in. This article tells the impact added security features will have on our Zoom Basic (free) users.

Comprehensive Guide to Educating Through Zoom
This document  is a comprehensive list of all the secrets to Zoom, including Getting Started with Zoom plus Teacher's Guide to Educating on Zoom.
Also additional resources.

Zoom Video Tutorials
Short clips explaining everything from getting started to scheduling from Outlook.

Zoom 101: Securing Your Zoom Meetings
This video (6 minute) shows how to keep others from interrupting your meeting.

Controls in Zoom Meeting
This video (10 min) shows what controls are available and how to invoke them - while you are in a Zoom meeting

Scheduling Zoom Meetings for Others
Others with Zoom Pro account can schedule for your meetings. First you must assign your surrogate scheduler the privilege to schedule for you.

How to Keep the Party Crashers from Crashing Your Zoom Event
The article from our folks at Zoom offers advice on how to get rid of and avoid rude guests.

Using Zoom Basic - Richard Bryne

Zoom Meeting Participant Guide
Provide this guide to your students in advance of live meeting.

Zoom Functions- U of Washington
This site offers a succinct path to the functions of Zoom.

Zoom Support
This site offers tutorials everything Zoom

Special Feature: Zoom Pro- Preserving Original Sound
If you have microphones that have echo cancellation built-in, this feature in Zoom Pro, might provide better sound





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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

UDL-Universal Design for Learning in Higher Ed

UDL Still Applies- Remote or F2F
Includes straight-forward chart or what to consider as you design your class or training.

The following resources were included in the Educause Webinar Universal Design for Learning to Support Remote Learning
Presented by Sam Johnston- Director of Postsecondary and Workforce Development- CAST

Universal Design for Learning to Support Remote Learning
See the slides, transcript, and recording of this informative webinar.

UDLonCampus.org
This inititative includes designing classes with UDL principle including uses of technology and media.

Reach Everyone- Teach Everyone
Thomas Tobin explains how to lower the barrier to access and not lower the rigor.
Includes transcript of podcast plus links to other resources.

Consider designing activities with "plus one" concept. Plus One = one additional way to respond, participate, report, or complete task. 

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UDL Guidelines
"These guidelines offer a set of concrete suggestions that can be applied to any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities."

How to create captions in YouTube

CADET- Tool for adding audio descriptions post recording
Captioning and Descriptive Editing Tool (free) produces captions as well as audio-description scripts.

National Center of Accessible Educational Resources

 Accessibility Course- U of Illinois
Free course that covers UDL and accessibility in higher ed

Resources for Access and Distance Education
In addition to resources, also upcoming webinars and office hours

Quality Learning and Teaching
QLT program is designed to help instructors "to more effectively design and deliver online, blended, and flipped courses (e.g., Quality Assurance)"





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Sunday, May 17, 2020

Video for You- Your Courses, Your Entertainment




Make Super Simple Videos for Teaching Online: 5 Tips and 5 Reasons to Get on Camera
Getting started with video to connect more with your students as well as instruct by Michael Wesch

Background of Professor Michael Wesch 
Links to video series- Teaching without Walls, his Anthropology for Everyone site, and how he overcame his fear of being in front of camera

How to Blur Faces and Objects in Your Videos

Audio, Image, Video, and tool recommendations

Copyright Free Images- from TCEA-Lori Gracey




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News- Higher Ed in Corona Times

Addressing Concerns about Online Learning
Plexiglass Won’t Save Us by Jeffrey Selingo. What steps have schools taken to improve their instructors and students experience?

Why Colleges Should Plan for an Exclusively Online Fall
Preparing now will reduce the chaos experienced mid-term Spring 2020

Communication- Is More, Better?
In this Covid time, communication with students, faculty, staff, parents, community is key

What College Students Need Now
How will colleges keep students safe?

What Campuses/Classrooms Might Look Like- Fall 2020
Socially distancing in classroom, dining, classroom

Lorain County Community College- Planning toward Fall 2020
LCCC plans 3 phases as it gets back to the new normal

Letter regarding efforts to chart MIT’s course for the summer, fall, and beyond
From MIT’s News Office, letter from President L. Rafael Reif, addressing steps and framework for planning process.

Is Higher Ed Asking the Wrong Questions
From author of Teaching Naked and former college president, how far in the future are we planning for?

If student wants to take off fall classes, might not blame on online experience.
Author of Small Teaching- Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning- describes his daughter’s and other students’ trepidations.

Case Against Reopening in Fall 2020
No vaccine. Other concerns in article in Chronicle of Higher Ed.

Cal State Universities to Be Virtual in Fall2020
Futurist Bryan Alexander forecasts how things will change.

With exception of nursing program, all classes will be online only.

UCSD- Early Example of Returning to Campus
UCSD will serve as a petri-dish. UC-San Diego has announced plans for moving back to campus.

Return to Learn 
By Chancellor of UCSD, under what conditions is UC-San Diego returning to campus for summer classes.

How the Coronavirus Will Change Faculty Life Forever

Covid-19 Resource Page-Educause
Includes links to webinars and polls for dealing with issues during these times.

Sustaining Higher Ed in Covid-19 Era
An extensive list of resources from EdSurge Higher Ed and ISTE

Live Updates: Latest News on Coronavirus and Higher Education
Live updates via Inside Higher Ed group

COVID Resources and Updates- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

How to Bridge the Mutual Distrust Between Leaders and Professors Amid COVID-19
Communication and understanding needs are key.

List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in Fall 2020
Open for F2F? Online only? Innovative scheduling? Checkout the plans.

6 Ways College Might Look Different in the Fall
Different types of scheduling. Face to Face, virtual, or hybrid classes.

Case for Virtual Fall Term 2020 (and Probably Spring 2021)
Thoughts of a college math instructor as he lists 24 points for need to continue with online teaching.

What Do Final Exams Mean During a Pandemic?
What are other options? Many professors are looking at other options.

Unprecedented times require unprecedented strategies and actions
This article by Paul N. Friga is in a series of articles about financial challenges in higher ed.

How Available Should Faculty Be to Students Online?

9 Things You Can Do to Make Working from Home More Joyful
This Ideas from Ted article includes suggestions for improving you lot at home.
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Polling

Polling- What's on Your Minds

Today's Q:




The following online services offer polling features:

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Saturday, May 16, 2020

Instructional Resources for Online Teaching and Learning

Options to address cheating. Seven tips to promote academic integrity https://chroni.cl/2HnFrNg

Bonni Stachowiak shares several tools to support interaction between students. From a different way of handling discussions; discussion using video; social annotation, Bonni highlights some useful tools to explore.
Note: The Arc tool in Canvas is now called Studio

Covering course assignments, assessments, other resources

The 140 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind
Something for all interests. Art, ideas, history, music/tv/film, philosophy, true stories/storytelling, more

Top 5 Online Learning Tips
From introducing new info in small chunks to providing feedback, this post also covers the research behind the tips.

Orienting Students to Online Learning: A Must for Student Success
Point to cover in orienting your students to your online class

Resources and Support for the Online Educator
ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) offers this free ebook full of tips, strategies, and activities.

CCCOER-Community College Consortium for OER
OER plus case studies for getting started with OER

QuickPoll-Educause-Grading and Proctoring in COVID-19 Era
What are institutions during now and what changes are being considered in the future.

Virtual Field Trip Apps and Websites
Explore museums, natural areas, and more.

Health

Medical/Health Simulations

From Ryerson University, see simulations covering several nursing care scenarios.

Open Education Resources for Nursing
Developing 5 OER Nursing Textbooks and 25 Virtual Reality scenarios

Open RN
H5P/Virtual Simulations for Nursing Education includes scenarios and links to its YouTube channel

Science

From Dartmouth

POGIL-Process Oriented Guided Interactive Learning
https://pogil.org/

HHMI Biointeractive

Transparency in Teaching and Learning
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Tools and Resources to Explore

Need a New Tool in Your Toolbox? 

Fine Art- shareable under Creative Commons
Impactful, humorous graphics available for download

Flipgrid
Flipgrid is useful for video introductions, discussions. Flipgrid is integrated into Canvas.
Troubleshooting if camera not recognized

You Can Attend VR Meetings- without Headset
Forget social distancing. Stand next to the other participants, shake hands, more- virtually.

How to Quickly (and Safely) Move Lab Course Online
From online teacher with 5 years experience of move lab course to online.

LearningRevolution
Free online conference. See the recordings here.

NewsLit- The Sift
Fact or Fiction? Educators guide to this week’s news literacy.

Student-Centered Remote Teaching: Lessons Learned from Online Instruction
Lessons learned to make online class more engaging.

Quick-Start Guide for Teaching from Home
From the instructor who teaches the most popular online class.

Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
This comprehensive list from U of Mass links to assessment, community, knowledge, and learner-centered tools.

Searching for a way to add questions to your videos? EdPuzzle is one tool that.

OBS-Open Broadcaster Studio
Overcome Zoom Limits with Live Streaming
In this video, Miguel Guilin shares how to set up OBS to live stream your presentation.
OBS is a free broadcasting software for Mac, Windows, Linux.

OBS is available here

Virtual Reality in Education
3 approaches to using VR in Remote Learning

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