Recording Yourself with Zoom – Windows
This brief video shows you how to record yourself with Zoom on a Windows desktop or PC.
Building Community
Many of us are wondering how we are going to build a sense of community in our classrooms, labs, student organizations, residence halls, etc., given the constraints of the remote and physically distant environment. Use the resources in this guide to learn how to encourage community in your online course and minimize students’ feelings of isolation.
Accessible responsive teaching
This slideshow presentation by Melissa Fletcher provides information and resources for faculty on how to create a responsive, accessible, and supportive learning environment for their students.
Recording micro-lectures
Leah Witus shares the programs she uses to record and edit her lectures, as well as a clip of one of her video lectures for her Biochemistry course.
Getting Started with Office on an iPad
The brief video covers how to get Microsoft Office applications (like Powerpoint or Excel) installed on an iPad using your Macalester credentials. These Office apps are especially useful if you’re using your tech kit to annotate slideshows or other documents, either for making recordings, or during synchronous class meetings.
The Impact of Systemic Racism: Implications for Inside and Outside of the Classroom
Marjorie Trueblood and Sedric McClure led a workshop on systemic racism, opening the workshop with the question, “Are we ready?” for the start of an academic year following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the global uprising against anti-Blackness, in the midst of a pandemic that has engendered high levels of stress and anxiety. Access the presentation sections of the workshop as well as additional resources for anti-racism and equity here.
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Sharing Recorded Content With Students
There are many ways to share your short lectures, and the process may vary depending on a number of factors, including what kind of content you’ve made, the device you’ve made it on, and even where your remote students are based. This how-to offers a basic walkthrough of the process for our recommended option, as well as a few notes on alternatives.
Creating Podcasts
Xavier Haro-Carrión shares the assignment prompt and project examples from his course GEOG/LATI 249: Environment and Society in Latin America, for which his students created podcasts.
Engineering Student Collaboration and Group Work
Knox College colleague Eric Dickens, in collaboration with his colleague Cate Denial, also from Knox, facilitated a session focused on student collaboration and group work. Watch the ACM workshop and use the additional resources to learn how to encourage remote student engagement and collaboration.
Teaching with Physical Objects in Digital Environments
Tactile learning incorporates a number of the senses when teaching with objects, and therefore poses a unique challenge to remote teaching and learning. Use this guide and the resources available within to learn how to encourage object-based and tactile learning while remote.
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