What do you need to get started making great content for online courses? How do you get students to turn their cameras on in the Zoom classroom? Hacker/educator/nerd/student/sailor Drew Rozema, chair of GRCC's CIS department, joins us to discuss all this and more: sailboats, setting up a basement laundry room studio, continuous improvement, and creating safe spaces for introverts in the online classroom.

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CREDITS

Hosts: Meg Lockard, Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Ian Matthews

Engineering & Recording: Noah DeSmit

Theme Song: Noah DeSmit

Production & Editing: Ian Matthews

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In this guest-less episode, the main crew discuss their own experiences at the beginning of the COVID-19 shutdown. Pausing instruction for four months, playing hide and seek in the library to test Zoom, and feeling like a novice even after years of teaching? Everything's on the table this time.

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CREDITS

Hosts: Meg Lockard, Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Jermaine Reese

Engineering & Recording: Noah DeSmit

Theme Song: Noah DeSmit

Production & Editing: Ian Matthews

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Professor Hillery Haney (French) joins us in studio to discuss her transition online during COVID-19. Seven different online pivots, 170 content videos, and one Bitmoji later, we discuss going on tangents all by ourselves, how we present ourselves as instructors online, getting to be stay-at-home parents while teaching, and being invigorated by innovation.

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CREDITS

Hosts: Meg Lockard, Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Jermaine Reese

Engineering & Recording: Noah DeSmit

Theme Song: Noah DeSmit

Production & Editing: Ian Matthews

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In this episode, Tim Periard of GRCC's Biology department is with us to discuss his experience transitioning courses online in the early days of COVID-19. Also on the table: teaching and working with small kids at home, experimenting with online learning tools, and ensuring exam integrity.

CREDITS

Hosts: Meg Lockard, Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Jermaine Reese

Engineering & Recording: Noah DeSmit

Theme Song: Noah DeSmit

Production & Editing: Ian Matthews

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Christina McElwee is in studio with the crew to discuss her time serving as director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic while also transitioning her own teaching online. We also discuss learning new tech tools to help our students, teaching developmental ed online, and more.

CREDITS

Hosts: Meg Lockard, Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Jermaine Reese

Engineering & Recording: Noah DeSmit

Theme Song: Noah DeSmit

Production & Editing: Ian Matthews

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Dr. Jenifer Bourcier of GRCC's Biology department joins the crew this episode to discuss her early reactions to COVID-19 as a microbiologist and an educator. We also discuss running asynchronous microbiology labs online with Google Forms, maintaining a connection in online courses, and staying present in the moment while you're elbow deep in 30,000 bees.

CREDITS

Hosts: Meg Lockard, Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Jermaine Reese

Engineering & Recording: Noah DeSmit

Theme Song: Noah DeSmit

Production & Editing: Ian Matthews

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Caleb Wenzel, GRCC's Director of Choral Activities, joins us this episode to discuss starting at GRCC during a pandemic, teaching choir over Zoom, self-teaching audiovisual production, and finding the joy in the midst of COVID frustrations.

Questions? Comments? Email [email protected] or leave us a voice message with the button in the show notes!

CREDITS

Hosts: Meg Lockard, Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Jermaine Reese

Engineering & Recording: Noah DeSmit

Theme Song: Noah DeSmit

Production & Editing: Ian Matthews

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In our inaugural episode we're joined by Bill Knapp, Executive Director of GRCC's Distance Learning and Instructional Technologies department. One year on, Bill shares his reflections on the pivot to remote instruction as a result of COVID-19. Supporting and guiding faculty through the transition and transitioning DLIT's own services to remote delivery both raised their own challenges and opportunities. Bill also shares what he sees coming next for DLIT and GRCC after we all return to campus.

Questions? Comments? Email [email protected] or leave us a voice message with the button in the show notes!

CREDITS

Hosts: Meg Lockard, Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, Jermaine Reese

Engineering & Recording: Noah DeSmit

Theme Song: Noah DeSmit

Production & Editing: Ian Matthews

Thanks for listening!