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  • don't forget to introduce yourself!

  • Last week's notes

  • I usually start on time in my in-person classes, but over Zoom there is always craziness. It's best to start a few mins late, not more than 5 is a best practice.

  • First I want to say thank you.

  • Who is here with small children?

    • ok let's look at how that went- I didn't say where to put your answers so they came all over the place. Some people unmuted. It took several minuites to actually get anyone to do anything because it wasn't clear it was time to participate. See how cringy that was? Let's do another one.

  • Who has any experience working remotely with video conferencing? Please open up the Zoom participation window and raise your hand if you have experience. Zoom participants window.

  • Who is worried this could have been a video and is ready to sit back and passively absorb?

  • How do you feel being asked to show up to a synchronous thing?

  • Did you show up to this ready to be engaged?

  • Why? Literally stop and think because you’re in the perspective of your student right now.

  • Let’s take 3 minutes to do a quick inventory of why you did or why you didn’t expect to show up and participate. Think, and write for 3 mins about what preconceptions you brought to this meeting.

  • Those are all fair points, but we’re creating reusable video right now. We're also talking and collaborating.

  • This is what I wanted you to see first- people come with preconceptions, and they aren't ready to collaborate. Specific directions are important.

  • The concepts we’re going over could be watched by someone else and serve as an example and I'll send out this video to anyone who wants it for their team.

  • If you're not comfortable showing your camera or room to other teams let's look at some stuff we can do:

    • Virtual Backgrounds
    • Photo of you

Outline of Zoom tips and tricks
- let's practice: Raising hands, faster, slower
- Who has experience teaching remotely?
- Webcam is crucial
- You are in an infinite lecture hall. There are two rows- front row, and far back row.
- Zoom chat
- Everyone can start talking at once
- Directing students to chat in zoom
- Setting chat boundaries
- Memes=morale
- Breakout rooms & how to use them
- Sharing your work is less scary over zoom
- Review other zoom controls
- Zoom backgrounds
- Discussion questions
- Using wait time
- Cold calling- magic of names
- Waiting until everyone has their hand up
- Waiting until at least most of the class has responded

Check out Twitch Streams! Innovation on interaction there.

Post it- the lesson structure

Tutorial method
Googling & videos vs Lectures
Show when students have tabbed away from the screen

Taught a class over zoom? We're doing interviews and will post them.

Interview Questions:

  • What’s your name and what do you do at CodePath?
  • What classes have you taught remotely?
  • What happens in your live zoom class sessions?
  • How do you keep everyone paying attention?
  • How do you use the time wisely?
  • What’s better as a video vs a live lesson?
  • What can students do in terms of interaction?
  • How do you deal with breakout rooms?
  • What do you do in breakout rooms?
  • What kind of interaction do you do with students?
  • How does this differ from a traditional classroom?
  • How do you treat your time differently? How about their time?
  • What does remote teaching allow you to do differently? What does it allow you to do better?
  • How do you keep students accountable?
  • How do you make the instructions on assignments clear?
  • What other tools do you use for remote classroom collaboration?
  • How about resources, how do you track that students watched and understood the videos you sent?

Interview Caren
Interview Tim
Interview Nathan
Interview Karen
Interview Pat
Interview Varun, Guillermo, TJ, Sushma, Clinton, German, TFs

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