Is This Online

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 Engaging Students in Virtual Instruction With the Camera Off "This is Our Moment" by Gary Stager Brain Breaks Zoom Edition MusicSon 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 Visit our website at: https://www.zundel.net/isthisonline Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/isthisonlinepod

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 FatigueZoom 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 MusicSon 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 Visit our website at: https://www.zundel.net/isthisonline Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/isthisonlinepod

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 called, "CoSN2020: Seeing the Bigger Picture of Digital Equity".  Philip Pulley's Blog: https://sites.google.com/unit6.org/drpulleyfieldcrest/home?authuser=0 Check out the website for Is this Online at: https://zundel.net/isthisonline/ Check out our Twitter feed at: https://twitter.com/IsThisOnlinePod Philip Pulley's Twitter: https://twitter.com/philippulley CoSN2020: Seeing the Bigger Picture of Digital Equity article

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". 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 Campushttps://www.edx.org/gfa 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 MusicSon of a Rocket by Kevin MacLeodLink: 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   Visit our website at: https://www.zundel.net/isthisonline Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/isthisonlinepod

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. 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/