Episode description
On this podcast episode, I'm sharing a digital round table on transition to remote teaching, learning, students support, and work in higher education organized by @laurapasquini with podcast hosts @Profpatrice, @jeffjacksonTX, @bonni208, & myself. This conversation is a reflection about the state of things we are doing, thinking about, and planning for as college and university institutions shutdown across the US. We talk about a range of plans, support, and strategies to be implemented and how we are “doing the best we can” as COVID-19 impacts our campus communities.
I'm grateful for show notes and transcript provided by @laurapasquini
Mentioned in this episode:
Katie’s Tweet about Care: https://twitter.com/Katie__Linder/status/1238868536979832834
Advice to take care of yourself, family & work team:
- Take a walk or run
- Get outside
- Keep a full-nights’ sleep & rest
- Meditation: Apps to try? Calm, 10% Happier (free), & Headspace
- Eating healthy
- Get silly & social with those at home
- Clean your house
- Ask who needs help – childcare, tech support, etc.
- Read books
- Relax from your typical routines
- Keep to your fitness routine
- Enjoy the quiet/down time now
- Closed captioning for Microsoft Streaming for Teams
- MS PowerPoint present with live-captioning or subtitles
- Zoom Setting: Auto-record transcript (option for paid version) timed transcript side-by-side OR use Zoom closed captions
- Need to adjust course deadlines & radical flexibility for learning expectations
- Trust Your Learners! Pivot to Online: A Student Guide via
- Grading Considerations: Is pass/no pass an option for your course? At your campus?
- Rely on the resources at your campus for support & suggestions: instructional designers, accessibility office, librarians & more!
- Do what you can & know you’re doing the best you can right now
- Phone tree system with team to check-in, share information, & answer questions
- What if Someone Gets Sick: plan & design courses one week ahead of time; set up a buddy teaching or “on call” system
- Email: Online teaching with the most basic tool
- What if the technology or remote ____ plan fails? Do the best you can and think about how you might need to shift to some alternative solution
- Be transparent and open with your communication – inform them the best you can!
- ECEC - Remote Teaching | College of Engineering | University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Keep Teaching: Resources for High Ed Might Network from Kansas State Online
- Zoom (web conference)
- WebEx (web conference)
- Microsoft Teams (web conference and collaboration)
- Discord (voice chat)
- Slack (communication channel)
- Pinboard (social bookmarking)
- Diggo (social bookmarking)
- is (annotation)
- Descript (podcast + transcriptions)
- Otter (transcriptions for audio & video)
- Droplr (record screen and annotation)
- Remind (text messages)
- Qualtrics (survey)
- Poll Everywhere (survey & meetings)
- EMAIL – use tools you already know/have to communicate with campus stakeholders!
- OR message on your website, learning management system, etc.
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) – “Plus-One” – what’s the one thing you can do?
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön
- Higher Ed Support & Guidance During COVID-19: Teaching, Learning & Student Support [Share this URL: http://bit.ly/higheredcovid19]
- Remote Learning: Digital Tools to Quickly Transition Teaching & Student Support Online
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