{"id":1465,"date":"2020-05-11T21:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T04:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2020-05-11T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T04:37:22","slug":"what-i-can-still-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"What I can still do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even as things have clearly changed in my classrooms (due to the whole distance-teaching thing), some things haven&#8217;t. It all <em>feels<\/em> SO different, but I&#8217;m trying to assess how much of that is just my impression, and how much is reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a list of What I Can Still Do, even online or in a Zoom session. Caveat: some of these things exist in a highly modified form, and may be less effective than in a face-to-face setting.  But still, some version of these things exists. I can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Talk to students (more easily as a group)<\/li><li>Encourage learning (does it feel as sincere over a video feed?)<\/li><li>Present information (sync and async)<\/li><li>Ask questions, have conversations (Sort of. Video is different, right?)<\/li><li>Ambush students with questions in class<\/li><li>Assign work (formative evaluations like homework)<\/li><li>Collect work (via uploads, copy-paste, etc. Is that the same?)<\/li><li>Evaluate work (Painful if I&#8217;m evaluating digitally, and also if I&#8217;m evaluating with a pen and then scanning)<\/li><li>Return work (via email)<\/li><li>Give tests (summative evaluation, but zero test security)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What I am unable to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Impose\/Impress\/engage  with my physical presence<\/li><li>Say something funny and not have to have students unmute to so I can hear them laughing<\/li><li>Have a spontaneous conversation<\/li><li>Be easily interrupted by a spontaneous question<\/li><li>Wander the room, asking my students one-by-one if they have a question or need any help<\/li><li>Get to know new students in a &#8220;normal&#8221; social setting (ie. face-to-face)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things that has made the Zoom videoconference solution so impressive and useful to teachers is the set of classroom-similar capabilities that have been built into the interface: strategies for raising a virtual hand, a system for virtually &#8220;clapping&#8221; for someone, breakout rooms that students can be easily assigned to&#8230; It&#8217;s so well done, and I understand that there are security issues around some aspects of the service. Most of those, I believe, have been addressed in recent updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My classes have done a surprisingly good job adapting to our new circumstances, and although there&#8217;s no doubt that things have been disrupted (especially in my Physics classes), we&#8217;re going to survive to the end of the school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am engaged in ongoing conversations with peers, however, about what we might have to do at the beginning of the school year if we&#8217;re still under some sort of restrictions, as we almost certainly will be. That bears some consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, most of my summer plans have been cancelled so I&#8217;ve got some time to think about this&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as things have clearly changed in my classrooms (due to the whole distance-teaching thing), some things haven&#8217;t. It all feels SO different, but I&#8217;m trying to assess how much of that is just my impression, and how much is reality. Here is a list of What I Can Still Do, even online or in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/?p=1465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I can still do<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[93,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hybridclassroom.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}