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Are you teaching students in-person and remotely via Zoom at the same time? Apply techniques to communicate with students and share organized materials in a cohesive manner to set the stage for active learning. Learn key strategies to apply active learning techniques in a multi-audience course setting and modify content of templates that support active learning for utilization in your own courses.

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1. Session Survey

2. Make the Switch to Remote Teaching and Learning

3. Active Learning while Physical Distancing

4. Physically Distanced Classrooms: University of Michigan Video; Keep Teaching Webinar Classroom Technology Recording; Instruction, Universal Masking, and PPE Recommendations

5. Making the Switch to Multi-Audience Teaching

6. Announcement Template

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13. Small Group IceBreaker Template (PowerPoint)

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The Weekly Gaucho is a digital arts news magazine produced by the JRN203 class at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Arizona. The purpose of this magazine is to inform and entertain the students, faculty, staff, and administration at the college about digital media arts, fine arts, and other interesting topics pertaining to our community.

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Faculty Playbook Final. Educational Technology Services - Home. JanCon 2021: Lightning Talks - Teaching in a HyFlex Classroom. Planning for the Unknowns 1-22-21 - Google Slides. Chapman Classrooms. Chapman University. Exploring HyFlex Problems & Solutions - Recording and Slides Available - Higher Ed and Technology: Academics at Chapman. Dear Chapman Faculty and Staff, Here are some Zoom resources that we encourage you to take advantage of.

Going through these resources will help you navigate through your Zoom meetings and manage your Zoom meetings better. Meeting Controls Breakout Rooms Sharing Your Screen Manage Participants Also, Zoom has created a YouTube channel with lots of Dear Chapman Faculty and Staff, Here are some Zoom resources that we encourage you to take advantage of. Going through these resources will help you navigate through your Zoom meetings and manage your Zoom meetings better. Meeting Controls Breakout Rooms Sharing Your Screen Manage Participants Also, Zoom has created a YouTube channel with lots of. HyFlex Classroom Types and Resources - For Instructors and Staff - Higher Ed and Technology: Academics at Chapman. Dear Chapman faculty and staff members, There are three types of HyFlex classrooms available to you on campus.

Prime - Include a Zoom Panel for direct connection to a Zoom meeting. The microphones are mounted on the ceiling and will capture sound from anywhere in the room. The classroom cameras are either mounted on the ceiling or the back wall and give a clear view of the whiteboard and the instructor's lectern. Flexcam - In these classrooms, Zoom uses the Desktop Computer to start the meeting. Connect - Former Panopto Lecture Capture rooms can now join Zoom meetings using the Desktop Computer. Exploring HyFlex Problems & Solutions. HyFlex Basics and Class Design Tools - July 7, 2020. Prime HyFlex Classroom Training. Chapman University Service Desk. 1-22-2021 Planning for the Uknowns (and Knowns) of Future Semesters. Fall Scenario #13: A HyFlex Model. If there was one scenario -- besides being back to normal or fully remote in the fall -- that we hear more about than others, it would be a HyFlex Model.

This may be because a hybrid or high-flexibility approach is relatively easy to envision. In a HyFlex course, courses are delivered both in person and online at the same time by the same faculty member. Students can then choose for each and every class meeting whether to show up for class in person or to join it online. The underlying design ethos behind the HyFlex Model is flexibility and student choice. For HyFlex to work, the classroom needs to be set up with, at minimum, a camera, videoconferencing capabilities and some way of interacting with the students at a distance. The appeal to some of the HyFlex Model is its flexibility.

ID11 1931 Bower Report handbook 2014. What You Should Know About HyFlex Blended Learning. Editor's Note: We've been reading recently about different forms of blended learning, and stumbled upon this idea of "HyFlex" blended learning, where students combine some of the freedom of MOOCs with the in-person resources of a traditional college campus.

The result is "HyFlex" blended learning, and while it may not be the "answer," it certainly represents an interesting possibility. If nothing else, it reflects students' desire for choice in the learning process. What is a HyFlex course? Which is better - online learning, or face-to-face?

Torn between the two? Try a HyFlex course. A HyFlex (hybrid-flexible) course is a course that allows each individual student to choose whether they want to attend class online or in person. Students can choose their preferred method of learning on a daily basis; they can attend some sessions online, and other sessions in the classroom.

The term "HyFlex" was coined by Dr. Student Choice, Instructor Flexibility: Moving Beyond the Blended Instructional Model. Jackie B.

Miller The Ohio State University Mark D. Risser The Ohio State University Robert P. Griffiths The Ohio State University. HyFlex Course Development Guide. Hybrid model: The new normal for education will be a mix of online and in-person classes. Colleges and universities are hoping to have teachers in the classroom while K-12 schools are considering a new approach due to the coronavirus.

Almost every student around the world--from elementary school kids to college students to professionals focused on continuing education--has been learning from home since mid-March. As the current school year winds down, parents, teachers, and administrators are looking ahead to the next school year and trying to figure out what it will look like. One option for delivering instruction if campuses open this fall: HyFlex. Welcome to this week's edition of "Transforming Teaching and Learning," a column that explores how colleges and professors are reimagining how they teach and how students learn.

Please share your ideas here for issues to examine, hard questions to ask and experiments -- successful and less so -- to highlight. If you'd like to receive the free "Transforming Teaching and Learning" newsletter, please sign up here. And please follow us on Twitter @ihelearning. Teaching: Your Questions About Hybrid Teaching Answered. This week, Jenae Cohn, an academic-technology specialist for the program in writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, examines the challenges of technology and active learning.

Making effective use of technology for your in-person students: "Pretty much all of the Hybrid (or HyFlex, or whatever you call it!) Discussion seems to imply that in-person students will need to bring technology to log in to Zoom to interact with other students," writes Janet Samuels, a clinical professor in the School of Accountancy at Arizona State University. "However, our undergrads are not required to have laptops or tablets, and many of my students come from a socioeconomic background where acquiring a laptop would be a burden on them.

"Do you have suggestions for engaging students in a hybrid classroom if the in-person students don't log in to Zoom or have access to technology? Jenae Cohn's response: I would definitely encourage this instructor to leverage mobile learning more with her students. -Beth. Library.educause. The hybrid flexible, or HyFlex, course format is an instructional approach that combines face-to-face (F2F) and online learning.

Each class session and learning activity is offered in-person, synchronously online, and asynchronously online. Students can decide how to participate. The flexibility of the HyFlex model demonstrates a commitment to student success, and that flexibility can also enable institutions to maintain educational and research activities during a disruption.

The 7 Things You Should Know About... series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. In addition to the 7 Things briefs, you may find other ELI resources useful in addressing teaching, learning, and technology issues at your institution. Er.educause. When campuses closed due to the spread of the coronavirus and the threat posed by the COVID-19 illness, faculty who were teaching HyFlex classes were already prepared to teach high-quality, fully online courses. Over the last several months, there have been many discussions in our professional networks about faculty and institutions looking to "HyFlex" courses for the next academic year as one way to manage the expected physical distancing requirements and the ongoing public health concerns about face-to-face contact in educational settings.1 The classic HyFlex (hybrid-flexible) course design model supports both in-class and online students in the same class sections, typically by using a combination of synchronous and asynchronous online participation paths for students who choose not to, or are unable to, participate in traditional classroom instruction.

The high level of interest currently focused on HyFlex raises questions from those new to this approach. Notes Notes. Hybrid-Flexible Course Design. This volume provides readers with methods, case stories, and strategies related to Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) course design so that they may make decisions about using it themselves and even begin their own HyFlex course (re)design.

More specifically, based on the needs identified for their course(s), readers will be able to a) determine if and how HyFlex course design could help them solve critical needs, b) take advantage of emerging opportunities to improve their education practice, enabling them to better serve more students, c) gain an awareness of the HyFlex design, d) find their own innovative HyFlex solution to their specific challenges, and e) begin the HyFlex implementation process using strategies similar to those used by instructors described in this book. Beatty, B. J. (2019). ASU Sync Classroom Management Webinar - July 2020. Teaching in the Concurrent Classroom: Four Strategies to Make it Work by Dr. Catlin R. Tucker. Teaching in the Concurrent Classroom: Four Strategies to Make it Work - Dr. Catlin Tucker. On Thursday night, I presented a 30-minute webinar with AJ Juliani for educators focused on the concurrent classroom. If the phrase "concurrent classroom" is unfamiliar, it's when teachers have a group of students in the physical classroom and a group joining simultaneously online via video conferencing.

An increasing number of educators are teaching in concurrent classrooms as schools attempt to accommodate families who want their kids back in classrooms and others who prefer to keep their kids in a virtual learning mode. As I support teachers navigating this teaching assignment, I'm honest about the challenges that the concurrent classroom presents. I am also solution-oriented, so this webinar is about making it work.

After all, education is one "make it work" moment after another! Leaders looking to support teachers can inquire about bulk licenses here. Blended modalities resources. Tip: Zoom & live class meeting options - Tips for Teaching Professors. We - mostly - have survived the spring pivot to remote learning. If teaching over the summer, you're probably trying to figure out exactly what that will look like. In the urgent pivot of the spring, we each did our best to meet our students where they were, with not a lot of time to reflect. Now is the time to take a moment to explore different interpretations of what "remote delivery" looks like, and make the most informed decisions possible.

Why is everyone using Zoom? Tip: "ZoomFlex" & Flexible Design Strategies - Tips for Teaching Professors. As I think about planning for fall - where I'll be teaching some "remote synchronous" (live attendance requirements) and some "online" (fully asynchronous) sections, I have found inspiration in this video, below, created by Mike Caulfield explaining "ZoomFlex" - how to accommodate some synchronous/some asynchronous students this fall. He encourages us not to ask: How do we create a face-to-face class while including an online audience? But rather to ask: How can we create an online experience that we can include face-to-face students in?

I think of flexible design as an opportunity to meet students where they are. They may have signed up for a section with synchronous requirements, and then life happens. Their kids' schools move online. Design for asynchronous tasks. Blendflex lets students toggle between online or face-to-face courses.

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1. 1. Small Pieces To-Go andy rush & jim groom Friday, March 13, 2009

2. 2. Friday, March 13, 2009

3. 3. Instantaneousness Friday, March 13, 2009

4. 4. Instantaneousness - Not Steven Colbert Friday, March 13, 2009

5. 5. Friday, March 13, 2009

6. 6. What is the iPhone? Friday, March 13, 2009

7. 7. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone Friday, March 13, 2009

8. 8. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera Friday, March 13, 2009

9. 9. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera ✓Web browser Friday, March 13, 2009

10. 10. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera ✓Web browser ✓Calendar Friday, March 13, 2009

11. 11. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera ✓Web browser ✓Calendar ✓Rolodex Friday, March 13, 2009

12. 12. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera ✓Web browser ✓Calendar ✓Rolodex ✓PowerPoint Remote Friday, March 13, 2009

13. 13. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera ✓Web browser ✓Calendar ✓Rolodex ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Keynote Remote Friday, March 13, 2009

14. 14. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera ✓Web browser ✓Calendar ✓Rolodex ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Keynote Remote ✓iTunes Remote Friday, March 13, 2009

15. 15. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera ✓Web browser ✓Calendar ✓Rolodex ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Keynote Remote ✓iTunes Remote ✓Computer Remote Friday, March 13, 2009

16. 16. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera ✓Web browser ✓Calendar ✓Rolodex ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Keynote Remote ✓iTunes Remote ✓Computer Remote ✓iPod Friday, March 13, 2009

17. 17. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Camera ✓Web browser ✓Calendar ✓Rolodex ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Keynote Remote ✓iTunes Remote ✓Computer Remote ✓iPod ✓Weather Channel Friday, March 13, 2009

18. 18. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Task Manager ✓Camera ✓Web browser ✓Calendar ✓Rolodex ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Keynote Remote ✓iTunes Remote ✓Computer Remote ✓iPod ✓Weather Channel Friday, March 13, 2009

19. 19. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Task Manager ✓Camera ✓News Reader ✓Web browser ✓Calendar ✓Rolodex ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Keynote Remote ✓iTunes Remote ✓Computer Remote ✓iPod ✓Weather Channel Friday, March 13, 2009

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23. 23. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Task Manager ✓Camera ✓News Reader ✓Web browser ✓Text Messenger ✓Calendar ✓GPS/Mapper ✓Rolodex ✓Podcatcher/Player ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Portable Hard Drive ✓Keynote Remote ✓iTunes Remote ✓Computer Remote ✓iPod ✓Weather Channel Friday, March 13, 2009

24. 24. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Task Manager ✓Camera ✓News Reader ✓Web browser ✓Text Messenger ✓Calendar ✓GPS/Mapper ✓Rolodex ✓Podcatcher/Player ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Portable Hard Drive ✓Keynote Remote ✓Picture Manager ✓iTunes Remote ✓Computer Remote ✓iPod ✓Weather Channel Friday, March 13, 2009

25. 25. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Task Manager ✓Camera ✓News Reader ✓Web browser ✓Text Messenger ✓Calendar ✓GPS/Mapper ✓Rolodex ✓Podcatcher/Player ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Portable Hard Drive ✓Keynote Remote ✓Picture Manager ✓iTunes Remote ✓Cheap Gas Finder ✓Computer Remote ✓iPod ✓Weather Channel Friday, March 13, 2009

26. 26. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Task Manager ✓Camera ✓News Reader ✓Web browser ✓Text Messenger ✓Calendar ✓GPS/Mapper ✓Rolodex ✓Podcatcher/Player ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Portable Hard Drive ✓Keynote Remote ✓Picture Manager ✓iTunes Remote ✓Cheap Gas Finder ✓Computer Remote ✓Flashlight ✓iPod ✓Weather Channel Friday, March 13, 2009

27. 27. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Task Manager ✓Camera ✓News Reader ✓Web browser ✓Text Messenger ✓Calendar ✓GPS/Mapper ✓Rolodex ✓Podcatcher/Player ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Portable Hard Drive ✓Keynote Remote ✓Picture Manager ✓iTunes Remote ✓Cheap Gas Finder ✓Computer Remote ✓Flashlight ✓iPod ✓Level ✓Weather Channel Friday, March 13, 2009

28. 28. What is the iPhone? ✓Phone ✓Task Manager ✓Camera ✓News Reader ✓Web browser ✓Text Messenger ✓Calendar ✓GPS/Mapper ✓Rolodex ✓Podcatcher/Player ✓PowerPoint Remote ✓Portable Hard Drive ✓Keynote Remote ✓Picture Manager ✓iTunes Remote ✓Cheap Gas Finder ✓Computer Remote ✓Flashlight ✓iPod ✓Level ✓Weather Channel ✓Lightsaber Friday, March 13, 2009

29. 29. What IS the iPhone? Friday, March 13, 2009

30. 30. What IS the iPhone? Education Organizer Friday, March 13, 2009

31. 31. iPhone Limitations Friday, March 13, 2009

32. 32. iPhone Limitations ✓No Cut/Paste Friday, March 13, 2009

33. 33. iPhone Limitations ✓No Cut/Paste ✓No Flash Friday, March 13, 2009

34. 34. iPhone Limitations ✓No Cut/Paste ✓No Flash ✓No Video Recording Friday, March 13, 2009

35. 35. iPhone Limitations Friday, March 13, 2009

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38. 38. iPhone Limitations Output limited ✓iPod video Friday, March 13, 2009

39. 39. iPhone Limitations Output limited ✓iPod video ✓YouTube Friday, March 13, 2009

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77. 77. What About Blackboard? Maybe Next Generation . . . Friday, March 13, 2009

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79. 79. Oh, and nothing comes OUT of Blackboard. EVER! Friday, March 13, 2009

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81. 81. What do you get out of UMW Blogs? Friday, March 13, 2009

82. 82. What do you get out of UMW Blogs? ★RSS to aggregate ALL of your courses Friday, March 13, 2009

83. 83. What do you get out of UMW Blogs? ★RSS to aggregate ALL of your courses ★Podcasts & Vidcasts Friday, March 13, 2009

84. 84. What do you get out of UMW Blogs? ★RSS to aggregate ALL of your courses ★Podcasts & Vidcasts ★Your Stuff Friday, March 13, 2009

85. 85. The Demo Friday, March 13, 2009

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Coordinator of Online Course Media Development at University of North Florida Published on The talk that Jim Groom and I gave at the ACCS 2009 presentation in Charlottesville 1. Small Pieces To-Go andy rush & jim groom Friday, March 13, 2009 2. Friday, March 13, 2009 3. Instantaneousness Friday, March 13, 2009 4.

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I learned of this activity in the pre-web days at Maricopa Community Colleges, done in a text only forum. Works too for sharing photos, but the idea is to share what the place you are logged into an online experience looks like

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I so loved the OER20 Conference #ThisIsMe activity- they encouraged participants in this online conference (I writer this as if there are any other kinds now) to tweet and photo of their participation location. You get great windows into participants from both the top tweets (hi Martin) and the latest tweets.

It's a very small thing to organize and do, but there is a huge connective payoff in getting a window into the places and surroundings where people are quarantining, together being not together.

There's an unintended effect here that I remember what happened long ago in an early DS106 Daily Create called Keychain Stories (the old site won't display videos but y ou can find many of them still in the back corner of YouTube).

People from different places did this video assignments at home, and as a group we got a peek (not the surveillance kind) inside the rooms, homes, dorms where people did their work. You got to know each other simply by seeing the stuff the people make important, plus their pets, kids, partners, etc.

That even happened in the NetNarr class I co-teach with Mia Zamora, in our first COVID-19 video class meeting, one of the students noted how neat it was to see each other in our home spaces.

The #ThisIsMe reminded me of an activity I learned long ago from my early years at Maricopa, from my colleague Donna Rebadow, called The View from Where I Sit. This was something she used in the paleolithic internet era of text-only BBS like environments. I found it's entry from the Maricopa Learning eXchange still alive in the Internet Archive.

The idea was as an intro activity in an online class to describe, in words, the place they are doing their online work. Donna notes that it was important then (as is now) to set a tone with a first entry:

She cites the source of this activity as an "ASU Summer Institute workshop." but also notes how it is successful because of unexpected outcomes:

The discussion takes many twists and turns that I would never have figured on or predicted. These are very powerful sharings.

Here's what one of my students recently wrote:

"...I come from xxx State and just moved out here in Arizona from xxx for about 3-4 months now. I was prior active U.S.Navy for about four years and had a lot of fun traveling and being on the USS xxx aircraft carrier for about xxx years of my military career. I also participate in being in the Reserves and also working part-time on top of college.... The view from where I sit is very rewarding because I finally am able to be a college student full time and the best thing too is that I won't have to struggle as much because the military has helped me become more motivated in my activities, goals, and commitment for my success....."

This student received lots of answers with lots of support.

Here I was - thinking about a "physical space" as my "view" and they write about "personal space...."
The View From Where I Sit by Donna Rebadow (Internet Archive)

This is stuff from the 1990s folks. It still works.

For the OER20 prompt I remembered doing something this in 2005, for the TCC Online Conference. I participated from my office at the Maricopa Community Colleges, here I sit with maybe my 2nd MacBookPro laptop (not the iSight camera). Long ago.

Where I Sit flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

So 15 years later, I tried as best I could to recreate this scene in my home kitchen in Mortlach, Saskatchewan.

From Where I Sit (for OER20) flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

Not much change!

These things we do "online" do not have to be complex or done in some app or platform. The better ones are simpler, and often involve doing something away from the screen. I've seen these more likely to generate the unexpected kind of results that Donna described.

If she ends up finding this post, I'd love to hear more stories about it. We had a blast in those early web years doing workshops like Technology & learning: magic, mirage, or reality? and What a Site!
Featured Image: Combined image of Where I Sit flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) and From Where I Sit (for OER20) flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

An early 90s builder of the web and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person.

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As we continue to innovate in learning places with students, are we also innovating in how we offer professional development to educators? This session explores five opportunities that offer faculty places to communicate ideas and strategies with one another in creative and collaborative spaces. Doyou have ideas to contribute?