Getting Started with Synchronous Teaching Events

One of our challenges this year will be motivating students to prepare in advance for their learning. This isn’t new, and we must be ready to practice what we preach! Before the workshop please follow this list so you will be prepared:

1. Select a course to prepare for and pick at least two presentation modalities that you would usually use in an in-person session. (e.g. PowerPoint slides, handwriting on a blackboard, demonstration of course software, web browser, document camera for hardware.)
2. Read / Watch the content in Chalk and Talk Transition, Remote and Asynch Lectures, and Various Synchronous Sources
3. Test with your own hardware to find configurations in Zoom that let you display each modality. Take note of any new techniques you develop to share at the workshop.
4. Record video of a short (< 2 minute) presentation where you switch between different modalities.
5. Download and install Camtasia (https://queensuca.sharepoint.com/sites/software-centre for Queen’s faculty), and edit your video to trim the beginning and end, but don’t edit the sequence where you probably stumbled a little switching modes. We need these examples for the workshop.
6. Bring along the resulting video when you come to the workshop.

At the workshop we will:

1. Watch some individual videos and discuss the creation experience, possibly in breakout groups.
2. Use a poll for interaction.
3. Practice watching for hands up etc. in the Participants window.
4. Group discussion of new techniques we have found and problems that still need a solution.
5. Practice navigating Breakout rooms as host and attendees.