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Checklist – 10 things to do to prepare for teaching in the Fall of 2021.

In response to the question, “How can I best prepare for the Fall of 2021 given the current conditions?”, I prepared a 10-point checklist.  References and links are included in the longer version below.

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  1. Encourage Vaccines: Encourage vaccinations in your syllabus, on Canvas, and in-person and provide accurate vaccine information: https://bit.ly/utvaccineguidance
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, Filed Under: Online Teaching, Teaching Tips, Video, Zoom

New Zoom Feature! Sharing Slides from the Main Room in Breakout Rooms

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This is really exciting, y’all!

Zoom version 5.7.4 has a brand new feature that allows you, as the host, to share your screen with the participants in your breakout rooms. In previous versions, the only way for you to communicate with a breakout room in Zoom was to join that room OR to broadcast a message to all.

Now, with just about two clicks, you can share content – such as a slide- with the screens in ALL the breakout rooms. You can also share your whiteboard and even your iPad, iPhone, or a second camera.

Here’s a 3-minute video of me demo-ing how to do this. It seems the documentation is not up to date yet on Zoom. This is really hot of the presses.

A few things to note: You cannot share music or your video. You CAN share a youtube video through your browser, though it will not have sound.

 

 

 

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Welcome to Take5

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Welcome to Take5, a Teaching Transformation series from CoFA’s Office of Instructional Continuity and Innovation and Assistant Dean Julie Schell. In Take5, we’ll be sharing teaching and learning designed to be reviewed in 5 minutes or less. While you are here, check out this clip from the jazz standard song Take Five via Deep Listening and provided by CoFA’s own, Professor Jeffrey Helmer.

, Filed Under: Box, Digital Pedagogy, Hybrid Teaching, Online Teaching, Teaching Tips, Uncategorized, Video

A simple way to receive and organize large files from students and collaborators: Box File Requests

This spring, I visited an in-person class session for one of our amazing, hybrid-led studio art courses here on the UT Austin campus.  Students were in the midst of mid-term critiques and reviews. The instructor diligently created a learning environment to ensure all students – in-person or online – could fully engage in the critique. This was no easy task. It required the faculty member to show all the students’ video projects during class time. For the instructor, having to download each students’ project from Canvas or e-mail was cumbersome. In my efforts to advance digital pedagogy such as this, I wondered how to help more faculty with large asset submissions? Continue Reading A simple way to receive and organize large files from students and collaborators: Box File Requests

, Filed Under: Academic Continuity, Course Instructor Surveys, Online Teaching, Teaching Tips

3 Tips for Encouraging High Response Rates on Course Instructor Surveys

According to the UC Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning, faculty play a key role in determining response rates for Course Instructor Surveys. “When actively promoted and discussed with students, response rates are generally higher than those in courses with little to no instructor attention paid to them” (para 1).

Tip 1: If you are teaching online or in-person, consider conducting the CIS IN THE MIDDLE of the last class, rather than at the end of the class period. Step out OR mute yourself, and turn off your camera, and come back after an agreed-upon time. You can also go into a Breakoutroom or send students into a Breakout room if you are teaching online. Julie's Zoom PhotoContinue Reading 3 Tips for Encouraging High Response Rates on Course Instructor Surveys