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2020 Shared LCTL Symposium – ‘Meeting the Challenge’
On Friday August 21, 2020, staff from UChicago and Michigan State held their fourth annual--and first virtual--Shared LCTL Symposium. The complete recording and outline can be found below. Highlights include Tom Garza's talk titled Zooming for Proficiency: Online...
Ideas and Resources for Remote Film Viewings
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...
CLC’s Online Language Teaching Course is Live
Please learn more about the course at https://canvas.uchicago.edu/courses/29174. Calendar and outline below. All discussions will be on Thursdays, 3:00-4:00pm Central. Contact Nick for the Zoom link, or visit the Canvas home page. Module 1: Intro to Teaching...
Links and Resources from SLI Intensive Online Workshops
Recordings Workshop 1: Pedagogy – recording (Cathy Baumann, 5/14/20) Workshop 2: Assessment – recording (Ahmet Dursun, 5/21/20) Workshop 3: Technology – recording (Nick Swinehart, 5/28/20) Assessment Resources Proficiency Assessment Task Formats pdf: This document...
Notes on Zoom security
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' button along the...
Making the best of the camera you have
NB: These guidelines are written from the perspective of those in Chicago, the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere. Those in the southern hemisphere should substitute south for north in these recommendations. Those in tropical latitudes will see significantly...
Making the best of the microphone you have
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...
Legal guidance on recording Zoom classes
The current guidance from Legal on recording Zoom classes is as follows. Recorded classes should only be made available to the students within the class and should not be posted to be shared more widely. Students should be notified of the recording but do not need to...
Panopto: What, Why, and How?
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
Maeve Hooper’s webinar on Digital student portfolios.