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

How to Host Online Meeting with Zoom (Basic account)

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

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. 

To play the podcast click below:

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)"

Video for You- Your Courses, Your Entertainment

Teaching without Walls- 10 Tips for Online Teaching- Dr. Michael Wesch 

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

Copyright Friendly Media

Audio, Image, Video, and tool recommendations

Copyright Free Images- from TCEA-Lori Gracey

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.

Polling

Polling- What's on Your Minds

Today's Q:

Click here ===> What's a new discovery you have made since "sheltering in place"?

The following online services offer polling features:

• Poll Everywhere
• Poll Everywhere (free/paid) offers several polling formats 
• Presenter Guide-Getting Started with Poll Everywhere
• Kahoot
• Kahoot (free/paid) offers several polling formats
• Uses a game show format
• Zoom Pro 
• Zoom Pro (paid) offers basic multiple choice formats
• Polls in Zoom- instructions for polling in Zoom meetings

Instructional Resources for Online Teaching and Learning

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

Getting Online Students to Talk with Each Other

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

How are other professors dealing with presenting behind a mask? Learning names of students who are wearing masks? Solutions to these challenges and more

Syllabus for Faculty Prepping for Pandemic Fall 2020

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

Remote Lab Activities and Experiences

From Dartmouth

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

HHMI Biointeractive

Transparency in Teaching and Learning

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.

Seven Ideas for Flipgrid Activities

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.

EdPuzzle

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

Your Wellness and Safety During COVID-19 Crisis

Wellness and Safety during COVID-19 crisis

• Amid the Covid Crisis, a Regimen for Reentry
• How Mass Gen Bingham (75K employees) has protected its workers
• The Risks- Know Them- Avoid Them
• What are the risky environments to avoid
• Workout of the Day
• What are you waiting for? Considered the go-to for all things exercise. 

• You Won’t Believe Your Eyes-Zach King’s Digital Magic
• Invest 4 min in some magical escape

• Free Resources for Exploring New Hobbies Amidst Social Distancing
• From Lipsomb University,  ideas for exersice, mindfulness, creativity, puzzles/games concerts, more

• Social Distancing- Critter Style
• From Mississippi River Museum

• Take of Yourself- Exercise and Eat Well
• Complete Guide to Cooking at Home- from Good Housekeeping
• Includes recipes and other ideas
• Free Yoga for Teachers
• Free Mindfulness Exercises
• Best Places to Go for Free Online Workouts

• Be Kind
• On the Road to Kindness
• Steve Hartman of CBS Sunday morning fame teaches a class on being kind to one another

• Consider wearing a face mask when out of house
• How to make your own coronavirus Ragmask
• How to Make Cloth Face Mask in 45 Seconds
• Surgeon general shows how using materials you have at home
• Best YouTube Videos for Making Face Masks

• Daily Dose of Good News- Daily Break
• from the Washington Post, "An Uplifting Story from Better Times"
• Sweat with Richard Simmons
• Workout with Richard’s YouTube videos
• Good News Tuesday
• See some good news for the day
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Instructional Continuity- Pedagogy + Recording Options/Considerations

Pedagogues of Care;

Open Resources for Student Centered and Adaptive Strategies in the New Higher Ed Landscape

Ideas for design, assessment, collaboration,  and teaching from West Virginia Press

Delivering High-Quality Instruction Online in Response to COVID-19
Playbook for improving course design, teaching and learning online.

Several faculty have asked about using Zoom and other recording options.

This post addresses:

• options for using Zoom and other recording products 
• pedagogical considerations for several scenarios 
• options for posting 
• equipment needed 
• resources

Pedagogy is like oxygen for #teachingmethodsgeeks

From Wikipedia
Pedagogy, taken as an academic discipline, is the study of how knowledge and skills are imparted in an educational context, and it considers the interactions that take place during learning

Pedagogy in Times of Disruption
This is a comprehensive resource for pedagogical considerations for moving classes to online.

The Pedagogy in Times of Disruption includes:

• considerations for synchronous and asynchronous teaching
• tools available in Canvas
• Zoom
• Shifting classes to online
• Option 1- Live class with Zoom
• Option 2- Pre-recording Lectures
• Option 3- Skipping the Video
• Using Zoom for Office Hours
• Student Presentations
• Uses for Canvas
• Other resources

Note: This document is tailored for Stanford. As time permits I will edited it so the information applies to SCC,

For now it is a start.

What's Needed for Recording?

• a good reason for recording
• an understanding of the process and workflows for recording and uploading recordings
• a real computer/laptop 
• thin client computers are not reliable for Zoom recording or for meetings
• webcam 
• microphone
• reliable internet connection
• software or a service for recording

What are SCC's recording options:

• Canvas
• Using Studio feature
• Zoom
• Zoom Pro account recording to cloud
• Zoom Basic account recording to local computer
• TechSmith Relay

Scenario 1: Using Studio feature in Canvas

• Refer to this: How to record a Canvas Studio video with a webcam in a course
• After recording closed captions can be generated and edited for the video
• Then the video can be uploaded to Canvas, YouTube, SCC LectureCast Server
• for more information contact Tammy Hobbs

Scenario 2: Using Zoom

• All faculty should have a Zoom Basic or Zoom Pro account named the same as you SCC email account. (contact Bruce Huddleson for additional clarification
• Zoom can be used for:
• live meetings
• recording your presentations
• office hours
• When I record where can I find my recording
• If using Zoom Pro account- record to the cloud
• share the links to Canvas
• If using Zoom Basic account- recording will be to your local computer
• the mp4 video file can then be uploaded to Canvas, YouTube, SCC LectureCast Server
• Getting Started with Zoom 

Scenario 3: Using TechSmith Relay

• Install TechSmith on the computer to use
• Using TechSmith Relay to Record Presentations
• covers how to request storage space for your recordings as well how to record

For more information contact:

Bruce Huddleson x5080 bhuddleson@scciowa.edu

Clay Huston x5081 chuston@scciowa.edu

Resources:

Pedagogy in Times of Disruption

How to record a Canvas Studio video with a webcam in a course

Getting Started with Zoom

How to Zoom
Short YouTube videos for most of Zoom's functions.

Using TechSmith Relay to Record Presentations

Responses-Today's Q

Responses to Today's Qs

What is on peoples' minds?

20200409 To whom or what are you listening for a little reprieve from today's bedlam?

20200408 On what are you spending increased time now at home, than before COVID-19 era?

Quick Pick Me Up

Some feel good stories. Tips for adapting to current time.

When I is replaced with We, even Illness becomes Wellness- Malcolm X

Mix of Recordings about Quarantine
You will find  yourself humming, tapping along.

Kennections
Test your knowledge with 5 trivia questions with a common theme, brought to you by Jeopardy wiz- Ken Jennings

Irish Repay Support They Received from Native Americans- 173 Years Later
A timely gesture by the Irish government to Native Americans

If your phone rings in class you must answer and put on speaker
What would be an embarrassing call?

Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration- Take Me to the World
Sit back and enjoy

The Daily Break

"One uplifting story from better times"

A four-legged setter

Being a volleyball fan, this put a smile on my face. Wish I could've have delivered those sets back in the day.

Now What
Write a caption.

Current News About Students

News For and About Students During COVID-19 Crisis

How are our students dealing with this crisis? Instructional Continuity?

Educause COVID-19 QuickPoll Results: Help for Students
What are the issues impacting our students?

Podcasts- Some Audio Therapy

What's your go to listen?

The following podcasts have been recommended by various folks on listservs and Twitter.

Up First- NPR
Podcast of the days events in just 10 minutes.

The Daily
In 20 minutes hear "how news should sound", brought to you by New York Times

ON Purpose with Jay Shetty
Uplifting and inspirational.

Oprah's Super Soul Conversations

Business Wars
Starbucks takes on Dunkin

The Model Health Show

TED Talks
Technology, Entertainment, and Design, that's what that stands for.
Something for everyone.

Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni Stachowiak is in the classroom trenches. She and her guests have something for all. Check out the resources she shares.

We're in this together- How are others dealing with this crisis?

How are others dealing with this crisis?

Ever feel a little better when you hear that others are in the same situation?
And how they are dealing with it?
The challenges? Hurdles? Victories?
Does that "Can do" gear (self-efficacy) kick in?

Tuesday, April 7, 3pm (CDT)

How Colleges Should Respond to the Coronavirus
Join this webinar (free)
Register here

Wednesday, April 8, 1 pm (CDT)

What Colleges Should Not Do in a Recession

Register Here: Free webinar from Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Educause recording its webinar- Transformation in a Time of Crisis: Changing  Courses Venues in Midstream.

What Students Want Colleges to Know About COVID-19
Recording featuring 3 college students who share their stories and advice for education leaders.


Thursday, March 26 | 1:00p.m. - 2:00p.m. ET | Online
Transformation in a Time of Crisis- Changing Courses Venues in Midstream

Additional Resources:

How to Make Your Own cloth face mask in 45 seconds
CDC shows how to use material you have on hand to make face mask.

Sustaining Higher Education in the Coronavirus Crisis
What is the best way to pivot to emergency online instruction?
How can colleges ensure students have access to the tech needed for remote learning?

COVID-19 Resource Page- Educause

Guide to Services Now Free (or Discounted) in Response to the Coronavirus

Developing Instructional Continuity- The New March Madness- Priorities

Yep- this is March Madness. 

Normally that term is reserved for post-season college basketball. 

Today March Madness has taken on new connotations- that few of us ever anticipated. 

(I have known this kid's parents for over 40 years, so I just had to:)

In this March Madness currently affecting us and the rest of world, institutions that are staying open are moving almost all classes online. (You know what I'm talking about, Willis)

• Where do we start?
• What tools are available for instructors?
• For students?
• What support is needed for instructors? Students?
• What have other institutions created?
• What lessons can we apply from other colleges' experiences with other national challenges? 911? Katrina? 
• What are common themes that institutions have addressed?

Enough already??!!!

Priority #1- Welfare and Safety of Students, Faculty, and Staff

Since the original March Madness has been cancelled, I have been looking and listening for what academics are doing. Twitter, listservs, email have been my go-tos.

From instructors who teach for Duke University in China to a president who lead his university back from Katrina, people and caring for their needs was at the top of everyone's list.

Resources:

Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus

How to Lead in a Crisis- Disaster advice-Former Tulane President during Katrina

Dear Students-Letter noting Personal, Academic, Social Challenges

Teaching Effectively in Times of Disruption-Stanford

In the Beginning- KISS

More the a Rock and Roll band in high heels and makeup.

KISS- Also a 4 letter acronym
(Keep It Simple Sam)

I am borrowing from Kevin Gannon of Grandview University (Des Moines, IA)

The following is from his article in the Chronicle of Higher Education
https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Make-Your-Online-Pivot/248239/

Good Teaching is Good Teaching

"Good pedagogy requires:

• Regular, effective, and compassionate communication with students.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances.
• Transparency in course materials, like tests, assignments, and activities."

Keep it as simple, and accessible, as you can.

There are a lot of tools out there. Now is the time to use what you are familiar with. There will be time to learn the nuances of new tools. Keep in mind- any new tool you learn to use is one your students may need to learn also. 

Expect turbulence, change your flight plan accordingly.

Online doesn’t have to mean impersonal.

Talk to the the camera lens, not the computer screen.

In the beginning, KISS:

• Determine your finish line.
• Get to the starting line.
• Use what works for you and your students.
• Take care of yourself.

Getting to the Starting Line- Adventure into some Unknown and Known

All adventures start with the first step, Eh!

I can still picture myself sitting on Highway 61. North of Duluth with 6000+ of my best friends. The 4 from Thunder Bay ending each sentence with "Eh".

Getting ready to stand up and head to that starting line of Grandma's Marathon. Putting our best foot forward. Just  26+ miles until beautiful Duluth harbor and the end line. That first step was going to be followed by many more, eh!

Marathon and COVID-19? What do they have in common? Where are they different?

• We can't run away from this one.
• being in crowds is not good for this one. 
• Both take preparation. Preparation for instructional continuity as well as caring for the well-being of our students, our families, and equally important- our selves.
• There will be surprises. 
• Can you imagine someone running a marathon with his back aimed at the finish line? (Seen it) A week ago could you imagine not getting your haircut (feel fortunate that you have that challenge)? Or that you might not see your current students, seated in front of you? Crazy to imagine. There will be more surprises. How we react to them will be crucial. We cannot control everything on this adventure but we can control our reactions to it.
• Accept help and seek help when needed.
• Thank goodness for the folks handing out water and vaseline. (One for inside, other for outside). In this crisis we are here for you and your students. Call, email, Zoom. 
• Share what helped you.
• Keep the finish line in sight. 
• Forces will attempt to pull in many directions. There will be a finish line in this challenge. Seeing it now is the same as trying to see a finish line 26 miles away. It's there. Trust me. Just hard to see from here.
• There will be time to celebrate, just not now in groups larger than 10.
• We will be tired but I don't think too tired. This crisis is a big one. Might be the biggest some of us have faced.  
• What would a celebration of March Madness, Ides of March, Pi Day, St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo and more be called? (What da got?)  Can't wait to know the name, date, place, time. You're all invited.

SCC Instructional Technology Services in the COVID-19 Era

Between March 23 and when this dang thing is over, 

Instructional Technology Services will be here with the first mindset.

This mindset will get us much further (IMHO):

This one? (Maybe not so much):

Our concern is you and your students. We are here to help with:

• Zoom- webconferencing service for remote learning and teaching
• Apple computers, iPads
• recording video for your classes- equipment as well as training
• phone service- will a staff member need to perform regular work functions involving making/receiving/routing phone calls but from home

For assistance contact:

Bruce Huddleson bhuddleson@scciowa.edu x5080

Clay Huston chuston@scciowa.edu x5081