AV SuperFriends: On Topic

It’s February, and as legally required by Hallmark and your Great Aunt Silvia, this show will be Valentine’s Day themed. We each have a box on our desk and we’re going to go around and virtually drop off little cards covered with stickers, glue, and glitter… and foil-wrapped candy. We share our backgrounds and how we got into AV and why we do what we do. For a bit of prognostication, we also cover what we’d love to see from AV in the future.

It’s January, so let’s plan for summer!

Chris is really, really upset with “Classrooms of the Future” (but not necessarily for the reasons you think) and gives them both barrels. Do you have a Classroom of the Future? Isn't it just the bee’s knees?

Then, the AV SuperFriends recover and share their take on how to get ready for summer projects and Justin again explains the wacky budgeting process at WKU.

Also, Rachel has been getting lots of questions from AV manufacturers about forecasted spending from colleges and universities— budget decreases for some, increases for others, and mysteries for everyone. Hint: Put all your funding requests into hybrid teaching technologies.

Plug in the twinkle lights, shine up your aluminum pole, and get out the fancy liquor— it’s time for the holidays with the AV SuperFriends!

In keeping with the theme of general end-of-year merriment and holiday wishlists, we all share our letters to Santa asking for our favorite AV-related products… or items that don’t quite exist, but should.  And Chris shares about seven of them, because he just can’t help it.  

Next, we play a round of “if you can have only one item from your Holiday Wishlist, what would it be” as we each describe the one item we really, really want.  A video wall for little Justin, a cup of bandwidth for little Jamie, and so forth.  Finally, we close with the traditional Feats of Strength as it just wouldn’t be the Holidays without physical altercations.

On this episode of AV SuperFriends: On Topic, we’re taking a look back at an interesting last few months.  Did we choose the right model microphones and projec... ok, no one really cares about that.  We take a holistic look at AV, eLearning, pedagogy, and the college experience and talk through how making six years of changes in six months might affect the future learning spaces.  Also, Justin comes up with the idea to charge tuition to online students based on how far they are from campus.

Welcome to the premier episode of the AV SuperFriends podcast. Take a listen, subscribe, and enjoy the ride.