Less of Me, More of Them…in Zoom

Posted on November 25, 2020 by ezundel

After updating everyone on how my district is approaching instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, we explore the notion of students’ reluctance to use their cameras during Zoom sessions.

We briefly explore what “presence” means in the classroom and how that can translate to a live online session. To help navigate through this, we can learn from Gary Stager’s advice on teachers’ role in meaningful learning, “Less Us, More Them”.

How can we make our live sessions “a better use of everyone’s time”? I relate my experience with transforming my live sessions where it was more about ME as the teacher to those where it is all about the STUDENT.

Articles Cited During the Episode

Music
Son of a Rocket by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4391-son-of-a-rocket
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Interview with Philip Pulley – Part 2 – Zoom Fatigue

Posted on July 12, 2020 by ezundel

 

 

This is part 2 of an interview I had with Dr. Philip Pulley. He is an educator in Illinois who has had a flipped classroom for many years. He penned the blog post called, “Zoomed to Death?”. We discussed Zoom Fatigue, his blog post, and more.

During our conversation, Philip mentions a Teacher Tech Checklist and he and Scott Nunes (@MrNunesteach) created. You may check it out at Philip’s blog here.

Additional Articles about Zoom Fatigue
Zoom Fatigue is Real – Here’s Why Video Calls Are So Draining
Zoom Fatigue is Taxing the Brain – Here’s Why That Happens

Philip Pulley
https://twitter.com/PhilipPulley
Philip’s website

Music
Son of a Rocket by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4391-son-of-a-rocket
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Interview with Philip Pulley – Part 1

Posted on June 7, 2020 by ezundel

I interviewed a guest this week!  His name is Dr. Philip Pulley. He is an educator in Illinois who has had a flipped classroom for many years. He penned the blog post called, “What I’m Calling This…Educational Triage” where he describes his assessment of the way educators faced continuing to work with their students during the COVID-19 closures in March, April, May and June of this past school year.

This is the first part of the interview where we discuss the term, “Triage Learning”.  We discuss the issues of equity and teacher training at length.

Afterward, I discuss a recent article: CoSN2020: Seeing the Bigger Picture of Digital Equity article

Philip Pulley
https://twitter.com/PhilipPulley
Philip’s website

Music
Son of a Rocket by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4391-son-of-a-rocket
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Download Is This Online on iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-this-online/id1512758915

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Is It Worth It?

Posted on May 19, 2020 by ezundel

In this episode, I discuss the current lawsuits that students are filing against colleges and university where they claim that “online learning is inferior to face to face learning”.

Research Text:
Barbara Means, Marianne Bakia, and Robert Murphy, Learning Online: What Research Tells Us about Whether, When and How (New York: Routledge, 2014).

Articles about Lawsuits:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-01/angry-undergrads-studying-online-sue-for-billions-in-refunds

https://www.change.org/p/uic-chancellor-refund-uic-students-for-tuition-costs

EdX and ASU Global Freshman Campus
https://www.edx.org/gfa

More Insight
How Much Will Enrollment and Tuition Revenues Be Down In the Fall?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lucielapovsky/2020/05/17/how-much-will-enrollment-and-tuition-revenues-be-down-in-the-fall/#72f2f0b46087

Philip Pulley
https://twitter.com/PhilipPulley
Philip’s website

Music
Son of a Rocket by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4391-son-of-a-rocket
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Download Is This Online on iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-this-online/id1512758915

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Introduction to Is This Online?

Posted on May 10, 2020 by ezundel

In this inaugural episode, the show host, Evon Zundel, introduces herself and why she is creating this new podcast to discuss the online learning landscape.

Credits

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