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Brenna is thinking about how the semester seems to be off to a slow start and recommending guest voices as a way to find your mojo — and is joined by one such guest voice.

Show Notes

Brenna talks a lot about the forward-facing Big Blue Button today. You can access it at this URL and use your TRU single sign-on to log in: https://bigblue1.tru.ca/b One of our amazing TRU faculty made this great BBB tutorial, which is a great place to start if you’re just learning the tool.

Brenna references Blue Monday today, which is probably not actually a thing.

Erin May joined us from the TRU Library today. You can use this form to book a library session for your class. Use this handy table to find your subject librarian.

TRUSpace is really cool! And the Academic Integrity Day collection Erin and Brenna talked about is available for perusal here.

Transcripts

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Brenna is back for one more solo episode before resuming interviews next week, and we're talking New Year's resolutions.

Brenna is back for one more solo episode before resuming interviews next week, and we’re talking New Year’s resolutions.

Show Notes

There’s a lot of Groot noise this week. Working from home, folks. Kids happen.

There are tons of great Learning Technology and Innovation workshops this term. Check them out!

Download and review the summary of the survey on student experiences of virtual delivery.

If you’re logged in to TRU Moodle, you can access the Moodle 3.9 overview — with some videos for the most-changed features — on the Support for Virtual Delivery site.

Brenna teased the Digital Detox at the end of this episode. If you want to register to get Brenna’s essays on the post-pandemic university in your inbox, you can subscribe at the Digital Detox site.

Transcripts

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Brenna is ready for vacation, but not before she tells you all about the Winter term programming, and hectors you about taking a rest.

Brenna is ready for vacation, but not before she tells you all about the Winter term programming, and hectors you about taking a rest.

Show Notes

Nothing for you here, folks. Watch your email inboxes for links to register for Winter programming, or keep your eye on the LT&I calendar, which Brenna swears she will update before she blows this popsicle stand.

The book club Brenna mentioned is looking at Critical Digital Pedagogy in the winter term. Check it out! It’s open access!

Transcripts

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Brenna is flying solo this week and reflecting on the results of the latest findings of the Student Survey of Virtual Delivery.

Brenna is flying solo this week and reflecting on the results of the latest findings of the Student Survey of Virtual Delivery.

Show Notes

The survey shows that many of us need to consider rethinking the workload in our classes. If you haven’t run your courses through a workload calculator yet, it’s a great place to start.

Our students are feeling isolated, and maybe that matters to online learning more than you know. Check out this review of research on social presence in online learning.

Brenna talked this week about Sara Goldrick-Rab and Jesse Stommel’s essay, “Teaching the Students We Have, Not the Students We Wish We Had.” It’s worth revisiting, if you haven’t checked it out in a while.

Transcripts

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Brenna is reflecting on how being bad at things is hard -- maybe something to remember in our teaching? -- and is joined by a video enthusiast to talk about Gen-Z teaching.

Brenna is reflecting on how being bad at things is hard — maybe something to remember in our teaching? — and is joined by a video enthusiast to talk about Gen-Z teaching.

Show Notes

Brenna talked a lot about Ian Linkletter’s case off the top of today’s show. You can read more about the context in this article from The Verge. And if you want to attend the event Brenna has organized for Tuesday, you can find more information here.

By the way, Bonnie Stewart has a recent excellent take on why higher education needs more attention on data ethics.

Find Trent on Twitter. How about a supercut of those weekly videos he talks about?

Read some (corporate funded, full disclosure) research on how Gen-Z students use captioning in their learning.

Transcripts

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Brenna is looking for a laugh this week, and is joined by the Dean of Students to make a point about making learning meaningful (and share love for supplemental instruction).