Ideas and Resources for Remote Film Viewings

by | Sep 2, 2020 | Remote Teaching

Thinking about using films for a foreign language course or club during the age of Covid-19? Here are some questions to ask yourself. What? How? The obvious first question is what will students watch, but a less obvious, also important question is how will they watch...

Notes on Zoom security

by | Apr 3, 2020 | Uncategorized

Zoom meeting rooms are public by default.  Below are some steps you can take to make your meetings more secure.’ Update on 4/9/20: UChicago IT Services has several recommended settings for class meetings, and Zoom has added a convenient ‘Security’...

Making the best of the microphone you have

by | Apr 3, 2020 | Remote Teaching

If you do not have a lot of choice over what microphone you will have to use with video calls, there are a few environmental factors to consider that can help your outgoing audio quality.  Larger rooms, for example, tend to be more echoey.  Likewise, rooms with flat...

Panopto: What, Why, and How?

by | Mar 30, 2020 | Uncategorized

What is Panopto? Panopto is a multi-functional video content management tool. The three main uses, as I see them, are: 1. Media library: Panopto allows instructors AND students to store and stream video files in a way that is better than uploading them directly to...

Digital Student Portfolios – Maeve Hooper

by | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized

Click the links below to view the materials and recording of Maeve Hooper’s webinar on Digital student portfolios, given during the transition to emergency remote teaching during March of 2020. -Materials, on Box – Recording Home Back to...