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- HEH 65: The Lost Episode
You thought you’d never hear another episode of HEH… WRONG! The “lost episode” was found after a hard drive cleanup, so here you go. It’s a rapid-fire question episode. It was originally recorded in January, 2021 so some of the topics are a bit dated.
Rapid fire question a la Brenae Brown podcast
- What’s the last show that you binged and loved?
- Dan: Queen’s Gambit
- Daniel: Expanse
- Ken: Bridgerton
- Scott: Ted Lasso
- Dave: The Great British Baking Show
- Also watch Derry Girls
- What’s your favorite meal?
- Dan: Pizza or Chinese food
- Hawaiian pizza
- Daniel: Fresh pasta and marinara sauce (from scratch), poached pear with caramel cream sauce.
- Ken: Salmon steak
- Scott: Good italian pizza, Craft Steak in Vegas, reubens
- Dave: Rigatoni pasta
- What is something that people often get wrong about you?
- Ken: Not friendly or in a bad mood
- Daniel: intensity in voice as upset or angry
- Dan: That I’m actually listening to people
- Scott: Age – people think I’m younger than I am
- Dave: Come off as stuck up, care what people think about him
- Give us a film you really love?
- Scott: Magnolia, Rainman, Donnie Darko, Inception
- Daniel: Childhood- The Explorers, Teen- Clockwork Orange, Adult- Donnie Darko
- Ken: The Mission
- Dan: The Joker
- Dave: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Matrix, Inception
- Give us a concert you’ll never forget?
- Dave: Nirvana
- Scott: Weird Al Yankovic
- Ken: John Denver (1987)
- Daniel: The Cure
- Dan: Bonnaroo
- What is the one thing you’re deeply grateful for right now?
- Scott: Employed and no covid
- Daniel: friends and family safe
- Ken: Get to work from home – healthy children and parents
- Dave: Employed
1 hr 6 min - HEH 64: Holiday High Ed Hangout
It’s a special holiday episode of High Ed Hangout (we have holiday beverages!). We jump right in with our favorite note-taking apps and then transition to our yearly tech (and non-tech) Christmas lists.
What note-taking apps do you use?
- iCoud Notes or Google Keep (quick notes or lists)
- Google Docs
- Textmate
- OneNote (handwriting recognition)
- Bear
- Obsidian
- Nebo (handwriting cross-platform)
- Remarkable Tablet (e-ink)
What is on your Christmas list this year?
- Ken: new laptop M1 Macbook Air
- Dave: more smart plugs or smart lights
- Dan: Retropie Emulation for a new Pi (NES Pie Case)
- Scott: Arcade Cabinet for a pi
Non-tech list
- Dave: Kitchenaid Mixer
- Ken: D&D books
- Daniel: (he just orders what he wants)
- Scott: Bombas socks
Anyone purchased a webcam?
Do people in your meetings keep your video on?
Beard trimming…
55 min - HEH 63: Anti Climatic Lollypop Crunch… Ahhhh Shapiro
It’s been a while since we’ve met, so we spend some time talking pandemic and lock-down, and what the work environment will look like when this is all over. Then we move into tech and talk a bit about the new Apple M1 chips.
Haircuts blah blah
How has social isolation been for everyone?
- Social distanced vacations?
- Lines blurred between work and home?
Will we go back the same way as before?
- Will certain places force the return to “normal” in-person?
Ken started playing D&D again (he started in 1977)
Who is buying a new mac (M1)?
- System on a chip
Playing Among Us for team building, Ken is using Zwift for bike riding
59 min - HEH 62: Haircuts, Apple, and Covid Tracking
We still live in Covid-land so we talk about haircuts, Covid trackers that our schools are using or building, and what it will look like to come back to campus. We also sprinkle in a bit of Apple to try and add a positive spin.
- We all have haircuts except Dan (who is still very hairy)
- GVSU is building a Covid-19 self (health) assessment tool to use when campus reopens.
- Simple form using GVSU credentials
- Questionnaire asking about contacts and symptoms
- Every faculty/staff/student needs to fill out this form every day before coming to campus.
- How is this HIPPA compliant?
- GVSU: HIPPA protected information is sent to the health department.
- Have you looked at the Google/Apple contact tracing app?
- GVSU uses Visitour for phone-guided walking tours
- Also use it for virtual tour
- UALR just released official reopening tour
- 100% back to campus in August
- Board of trustees required a plan
- Apple WWDC Updates
59 min - HEH 61: Covid Doldrums and Man Buns
We’re still figuring out this quarantine thing. Many of us need a haircut! We go over reopening plans and talk through what other schools have announced before going into how we list areas of study and majors on our websites.
- The state of Arkansas is officially OPEN! WOOT!
- Lotsa weekend party barges!
- Anti-Mask League NPR Embeded Podcast
- The state of Iowa is open!
- GVSU slowly reopening for staff June 22nd – student plan is still to “reopen in fall”
- Iowa planning to open in fall, a plan is in the works
- UALR received a large donation for aid, also plans on opening in the fall
- Some schools are starting early and stopping in the Fall (Thanksgiving)
- What do you do with college areas of study?
- UALR has a contact form on each area of study/major page.
- GVSU central marketing maintains their areas of study pages and their catalog
1 hr 9 min - HEH 60: How to Open After a Pandemic
Our various states are starting to open up and our schools are starting to discuss opening in the fall as well. What does that look like? Is it too soon? How do we make that happen?
- Arkansas is opening the state again! Yay?
- Iowa will be opening soon.
- The difference between virtual vs in person
- Finding digital processes to replace old paper process
- Many companies might move to remote after this is over and not pay high real estate prices.
- Let’s turn university building into retreat space and think about how we use university building differently.
- Will we be able to work remotely after this is over?
- Is it safe to open colleges in the fall?
- We’re seeing a lot of announcements right now (up to May 1 decision date)
- DANIEL IS BACK IN HIS HOUSE!! (after it got hit by a tree in June)
- Added a bunch of super-tech
56 min - HEH 59: High Ed Global Pandemic Edition
The global pandemic has just begun, and we’re all adjusting in different ways. We talk about how we’re handling things personally, and how our universities are handling things (via policy and technology).
- Waiting on Spillers…
- Talking about MacOS updates (that’s why Spillers is late)
- Arkansas has a curfew
- Michigan is in 100% lockdown (nothing by groceries)
- http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
- https://ncov2019.live/data
- Are all of our universities closed?
- UALR still has people working
- Residence Halls are all closed (minus select students who have nowhere to go)
- How do we deal with our parents?
- What technology are we using now that everyone is remote?
- Slack, Zoom, Skype for Business, Blackboard Collaborate
- Online Class: Blackboard (GVSU), Canvas (Iowa)
- Working from home – UALR was a hard sell
- We don’t want to overwhelm students with coronavirus “we’re there for you” communications (like every other business ever)
- UALR state budget issues
- Everybody Tiger King on Netflix! (watching via Zoom)
1 hr 8 min - HEH 58: Mama See Cow Mama Show Cow Mama see-coo-sah
It’s the first HEH of 2020! Grand Valley State is moving to PHP, so we chat with Daniel about the best way to make that move. We also chat about hidden nav menus and UX decisions for a university homepage.
GVSU wanted to switch to PHP (away from CF) and chatted with UALR about how to do that. Looking at Platform.SH (cloud).
HighEdWeb is in Little Rock, AR Oct 18-21, 2020
Dan is getting married!
- Tells us about the proposal
Thoughts about hidden web nav menus
- https://www.utk.edu/
- https://www.calpoly.edu/
- https://vt.edu/
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menus/
Ken wants a Logitech MX master 3 (we all do!)
- Sexy Mouse Video
58 min - HEH 57: High Ed Holiday Hangout (HEHH)
Happy holidays loyal HEH listeners. We have a holiday-themed episode for you. We ring in the holidays (all of them!) with festive beverages and the tech items on our own Christmas lists. HEHH to all!
Holiday-themed drinks celebrating all the “holidays”
- Hanukkah
- Three Kings Day
- Winter Solstice
- St. Lucia Day
- St. Nicholas Day
- Christmas
- Kwanzaa
- New Year
- Mardi Gras
What is on your holiday/Christmas list?
- Ken – AirPods
- Dave – Gopro bird feeder, super binoculars that stream video
- Scott – Smart Switch, Waffle Maker
- Smart Pancake Printer
- Scott – Aftermarket car stereo with Car Play or Android Auto
- Scott – Retro game controller poster
- Dan – Smart surge protector to turn stereo components on/off
- Scott – LED strip for tv that colors based on TV image
- Daniel – A new house (wired for tech!), New headphones
Do we take care of projects over the holiday break?
42 min - HEH 56: 6 Months Later…
It’s been 6 months since you’ve heard from us… we’re back! In this episode, we’ll catch you up on what’s happened the past 6 months and take a look at the new WT.social.
- Daniel had to move away when a tree blew into his house
- Scott went to AMA Higher Education Symposium
- Founders Beer lawsuit/issues
- Dave went to Big Data Conference
- Joey Chen – gerrymandering trials
- Ken went to a (Library) Drupal conference in Vancouver
- Dan went to Midwest User Experience Design (MUXD)
- Wasn’t good
- Ken has a long lost sister (who he visited in Vancouver)
- New Wikipedia Social Network
- https://wt.social/
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