Our Online Class

Zoom

Our class today was on Zoom. It certainly missed the buzz of our usual classes, but it was great to round off the half-semester in PJs. It was interesting for me to hear that Zoom can be used for Screencasting, and I will certainly be looking into this. I think Screencasts would be a great way to change up the format of lessons … and allow the teacher to take a few minutes break from talking. I’ll try to incorporate this into one of our upcoming projects this semester.

Here is a link to instructions on Screencasting with Zoom.

YouTube

Having a YouTube channel is something that my tween son does. But apparently it can be useful for teachers too! Of course I had to dig up that first ever YouTube video…

… and then went down a little rabbit hole to learn more about it. (Here is the history on Wikipedia.) The video is of Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube, and the video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, nearly exactly 20 years ago!

Digital Curation

I’ve been thinking about this recently, as we have a ton of great materials in Brightspace that I want to download and have accessible in future. I was glad this topic came up in class, but would have appreciated a bit more on the pros and cons of different options as I still feel a bit lost…

I currently have a hybrid system where I file the majority of my work on my hard drive, but am increasingly creating and saving documents on Google Drive, largely for the shareability. I’d like to make a decision about which one to use going forward, and create a single comprehensive digital filing system for myself. Oh yes, I also have a bunch of shelving that looks like this: