Creators Not Consumers: Encouraging Student Agency in Tough Times

Creators Not Consumers: Encouraging Student Agency in Tough Times

As we hit a wall the 9-month mark of the Zoomification of the classroom, I have been reflecting on Marshall McLuhan’s prescient declaration: ‘the medium is the message.’*  Writing in the sixties, McLuhan was concerned primarily with the visual broadcast (one-way)...
Highlighting Three Zoom Features

Highlighting Three Zoom Features

Zoom’s latest release for its desktop application (version 5.3.2) has three new features I would like to highlight: Screen sharing a presentation as a virtual background, high-fidelity audio, and video filters. Although the feature is in a Beta-release, screen...
Zoom Chat Settings

Zoom Chat Settings

As the Host of a Zoom meeting, if you need to change your Zoom chat settings to disable private chats between your meeting participants open the Chat panel then click on the three dots in the lower right corner.  If you pick the Host only setting, participants will...
Spring Cleaning of Zoom Cloud Recordings & an IMPORTANT Google Calendar Integration Update

Fall updates: New DVD check out location & Zoom tidbits

DVD Collection On August 4th, the Ed Tech team moved from their location in the Osterlin Building to the basement of West Hall Innovation Center. We are in the space formally occupied by the NMC Bookstore. As part of this downsizing, we handed over the management of...