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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.

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

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