This weekly series–a continuation of the CFD summer publication and workshops–will showcase faculty discoveries, strategies, and innovations emerging from HyFlex\/remote teaching.<\/p>\n
If there is a teaching tip you would like to share, email Mary Balkun, Director of Faculty Development, at <mary.balkun@shu.edu>.<\/p>\n
Week of Sept. 21<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Mark Holtzman, Accounting and Taxation Department<\/em><\/p>\n A lot of us are using polling. I find the easiest way to do this is using the \u201cthumbs up\u201d feature in the chat box. I type in each choice as a separate chat message and ask the students to \u201clike\u201d the answer they agree with. When I do a number problem, I ask them to enter their answer into the chat box, or \u201cthumbs up\u201d someone else\u2019s answer if they agree.<\/p>\n In the classroom, we can only see two screens, the one on our pc and the one in the back of the room. If I\u2019m working a problem in Microsoft Excel on my screen, then I can\u2019t see the chat. To see it, I open Teams on my iPhone and view the chats there.<\/p>\n The whiteboard in Teams is not very popular with our faculty \u2013 it seems buggy. I use MS Excel instead. The grid format in Excel is well suited for use as an impromptu whiteboard in any discipline, whether you\u2019re using numbers of not.<\/p>\n One more: remote students having trouble with their PC\u2019s can access Teams on their smartphones.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christine Fernandez, Physician Assistant Program.<\/em><\/p>\n To be sure you know what you are displaying either on Zoom, Teams, or Collaborate, I suggest joining the meeting on phone in addition to your computer so you can see what the student sees.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Erik Hill, Biology and Microbiology Department<\/em><\/p>\n For my large remote classes in spring and fall, I play music for around 10 min before the course lecture starts. It can feel overwhelming and ominous to enter a quiet room. Think of the worst doctor\u2019s offices; even long elevator rides have Muzak. So I pipe music\/youtube through my phone placed near to the computer microphone (rather than playing directly through the computer – streaming music has had technical issues). \u00a0\u00a01) it relaxes the atmosphere before class. 2) it allows the students to check that their sound is functioning. 3) it confirms to the class that my microphone is working. \u00a04) I get \u2018constructive\u2019 feedback from them on how to \u2018improve\u2019 my musical selections.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TECH TIPS FROM THE TLTC<\/strong><\/p>\n Sharing Sound in a Meeting:\u00a0<\/strong>If you are sharing a video with sound, make sure to select the \u201cinclude computer sound\u201d checkbox before sharing your content. Please note this is not available on Mac laptops yet.<\/p>\n Speaker Feedback and Echo:\u00a0<\/strong>To avoid speaker feedback and echo in the classroom, all students in the classroom must mute the microphone and speakers on their laptop if they are joining the virtual meeting. Instructor microphone and speaker should not be muted unless the instructor is in a Teams HyFlex classroom with the wall panel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This weekly series–a continuation of the CFD summer publication and workshops–will showcase faculty discoveries, strategies, and innovations emerging from HyFlex\/remote teaching. If there is a teaching tip you would like… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}