Two Videos to Get You Started

In this second video, Jean-Marie Venturini explains the basic tools available to support teaching remotely.

Updated 3.23.20

More Food for Thought:

1) You are not teaching an online class. You are moving a face-to-face class online. You already know the students and have a rapport with them. You weren’t planning to have to deliver your course material to them remotely. But your problem is about four weeks’ worth of material. This is a problem you can handle.

2) You have to adapt to the modality you have. Think about what you want them to learn, and figure out how to get it to them. This is called ‘backward course design’, if you’re looking for a term to Google.

3) Look at your syllabus. Do you have to move assignment deadlines, writing assignments, or exams to different due dates? Do you have material that is easier to do online? No one says you have to follow what’s written in your syllabus exactly - you can revise for the circumstances.

4) What technologies do you know how to use? What technologies do your students know how to use?

Tips:

1) Look at the RESOURCES tab for ideas. If you have other ideas, share.

2) You need to replicate content delivery, interaction, and assessment.

Suggestions for LAS content delivery:

1) Write up a lecture in Word. This will be FINE. Word also has the advantage of playing reasonably well with screen readers and other access technology.

2) Record short 10-minute videos of key concepts. Do this only if you’re reasonably comfortable with video editing, and know how to upload things. (the Teaching/Learning center staff can help)

3) Write reading questions/responses, even if you don’t normally use them.

4) If you decide you’re going to live-stream a lecture, make sure you also record it. Some of your students are going to miss it and the some will have technology issues.

Suggestions for STUDIO content delivery:

1) If you decide you’re going to live-stream a demo or lecture, make sure you also record it. Some of your students are going to miss it and some will have technology issues.

2) Live-stream a crit? YES! Look under the IDEAS AND OPPORTUNITES tab for more on this.

3) Schedule live studio time, in which everyone is working together independantly, but everyone is ZOOMing, so you can hear each other and comment, see each other's home studios, see work - and nurture a sense of community even though you aren't in the same room. If a student asks a question, your other students will hear the response - just like in the actual studio.

4) Consider ZOOMing in a special guest - an artist, designer, curator...many people are feeling very altruistic right now, and they are home, too.

5) Look under the IDEAS AND OPPORTUNITES tab for more ideas,

Interaction:

1) Respond a lot to students — ask and raise questions. And ask them how they are doing.

2) The LMS (O-Space or Nest) has discussion capabilities. This is a good time to use it.

You *can* get more creative than this. But this is a good start.

*Adapted from ideas shared by Mary Beth Willard, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Weber State University, on Facebook