Teach-flip.utah.edu: Ideas on How to Get Your Course OnLine Quickly:

Help at the U:

• TLT: http://tlt.utah.edu/covid19.php Links to an external site.
  • Canvas Fast Course
• From CTLE:
  • Resources for Online
  • Video Lecture Guide
  • Recorded webinars Links to an external site.
    • Advanced Zoom, Assessment, Canvas rubrics, Inclusivity
• From CSME:
  • U of U Quick Start Guide Links to an external site.
  • How to Facilitate Class Through Canvas Links to an external site.
  • Going Online in a Hurry Links to an external site.
  • Keep Teaching Links to an external site.
  • I never taught an online course and now I have to Links to an external site.
  • Online teaching video series Links to an external site. (includes a good video on alternative assessment methods)
• From Marriott Library
  • One Stop Shop

What You Need:

• Course Organization Site (Canvas) Links to an external site.
  • Tutorials from TLT Links to an external site.
    
  • Thinking about the differences between teaching face to face and online: https://teddysvoronos.com/category/pedagogy/ Links to an external site.
• Video Lectures
  • You need: Excellent video lecture guide from CTLE
    
    • A way to WRITE
    • A way to RECORD
    • A place to POST the video (and link it to Canvas)
  • CONTENT   Video Best Practices:
• 1. Keep it Short and Sweet: a traditional 50-minute lecture usually turns into 15-20 min of video lecture.
  2. Chunk it up into several 3-5 minute short videos, rather than 1 long video. This makes it easier for your students to download, easier to pay attention. It's also easier for you to record and upload.
  3. At the start of the video, tell the students what you want them to learn. (I give them a "question of the day", that helps guide their note taking.) Encourage note-taking during the video.
  4. Go as quickly as feasible, and don't repeat yourself (too much). Students can repeat sections as needed.
   
  • A few other useful tools for writing:
    
    • Quick-start: Cell Phone with document camera holder
      • https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VBDJM5K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (Links to an external site.)
      • https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VBDJM5K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
    • Document Camera
      • Here's one I've been using, Links to an external site. or another one I like Links to an external site., and there are many others.
    • Other technologies (iPad, Tablet PC, etc.)

• • Other ways to capture the video of you writing
    • • • Cell phone, just take a video
        •  Ink2go (free from osl.utah.edu Links to an external site.)
          • A demo Links to an external site.
  • Posting the video
    • • • Uploading to YouTube directly from Cell phone upload directly Links to an external site.
        • To put YouTube video to YouTube
          Copy the URL of your video and paste it into Canvas

What else do you need for an online class:

• Ways for the students to practice, get (quick) feedback, and improve.
  • Give extra examples (such as from other textbooks, be aware of copyright (Allyson Mower, Marriott LIbrary can help), typically <10% of any section). Give examples that include all the steps, not just the final answers.
  • Consider recording examples (such as of homework problems, problems from old tests, etc.) where you go step by step, asking the student to pause the video and try each step before you show them how to do it and why.
  • A bit more about video lectures: Cynthia Furse, Donna Ziegenfuss, "A Busy Professor's Guide to Sanely Flipping Your Classroom," accepted to IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine Download Cynthia Furse, Donna Ziegenfuss, "A Busy Professor's Guide to Sanely Flipping Your Classroom," accepted to IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
• Engagement
  • Online office hours (consider using Zoom, which also allows you to record)
  • YOU! You are really important to your students. Record a few things each week where you are talking to the students face-to-face. These might just be course announcements, but encouragements, explaining why you are doing certain things, etc. may be better.
• Formative Assessment
  • This online stuff is new to both you and the students. After a week or so (and then again in a week or two), add an extra credit canvas assignment:
    • How is this online learning going for you? What is working well and what could be improved?
    • What can I do to help you learn better?
    • What can you do to help you learn better?Here's what we have learned about asking these questions: Donna Ziegenfuss and Cynthia Furse, “Evidence-Based Practice: Student-Centered and Teacher-Friendly Formative Assessment in Engineering,” 2018 Annual Amercan Society for Engineering Education Conference and Exposition, June 24-27,2018, Salt Lake City, Utah Download Donna Ziegenfuss and Cynthia Furse, “Evidence-Based Practice: Student-Centered and Teacher-Friendly Formative Assessment in Engineering,” 2018 Annual Amercan Society for Engineering Education Conference and Exposition, June 24-27,2018, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Consider a weekly assignment (extra credit or not):
    • What is the muddiest (most confusing) point this week? Try to answer it...
  • Read through the student responses, and give some feedback or comment to students individually if needed (especially if they are expressing strong positive or negative emotion), and also collectively.

Super Good Luck! in this new adventure. If there is anything I can do to help, if you just want to talk through something, etc. email me, and we can set a time to talk:  Cindy Furse cfurse@ece.utah.edu

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Ideas from ECE:

Angela Rasmussen:

1.  Faculty Studio available in Marriott for DIY (An example video is: Bode plots with zeros at same location Links to an external site.)

* I used adobe premier for this one and the professional studio with backdrop/lighting and professional camera and microphone and recorded on my iPad.  I had to edit both videos together along with combining the audio.

* Took 2 1/2 hours for setting up studio, recording, transferring files to computer, adobe premier editing, processing time, and upload (7:20 minute video)

2. One touch studio at Marriott for DIY (An example video:     Review Circuit Analysis Links to an external site.)

* I used their setup for the recording and screen recorded on my iPad.  I then had 2 videos again that had to be combined.  This only allows for powerpoint and not a connected device such as the iPad.

* Took about 2 hours since the processing time took almost 2 1/2 times to get saved to the flash drive for just the one video with white background, I still had 2 videos, transferring files to computer, adobe premier editing, processing time, and upload (6:47 minute video).  

3.  Home setup (Description at:  Video Recording Setup Links to an external site.)

* I used the setup described in the video.  I used a black sheet hung on the wall for the backdrop which I didn’t mention and used iMovie to add the intro/exit. 

* Took about 1 hour (12:01 minute video) but I also prepared the material during this time.

(Lecture example:  Example DC Analysis of Inductor Circuit Links to an external site. )

* This one took me about 30 minutes.   

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ECE Lightboard graphic (nice start to ECE videos)

Here are the intro/outro graphics. The folks at TLT gave me the files, so I'm fairly certain we are free to use them however we like with official university content.

Here are the intro/outro graphics. The folks at TLT gave me the files, so I'm fairly certain we are free to use them however we like with official university content.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k-h-dMfsXp9IOgAUE35aLt9ivKtVQkCe Links to an external site.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MegpLEawEWjxXzXDOmOodNAOWJ54Axq2 Links to an external site.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k-h-dMfsXp9IOgAUE35aLt9ivKtVQkCe Links to an external site.

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James Nagel:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1C4vbrgLX0Xw6Arl_XHqb0p2bMwMkaLKu Links to an external site.

I have a green screen that Annie made for me out of a green fabric. I also have a clever little mounting rig for holding the camera over the desk. Then I just got some black poster board for the background.

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Fatemeh Mahalian --

Here is a link to one of my videos:

7. Superposition Theorem with a Practical Example(叠加定理及实例) Links to an external site.

 and here is my page that includes other videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9gXQ8qqDXbeBPQmhU2omKw Links to an external site.

For these videos, I first tried to explain the concepts with an analogy in nature (for some of the theories like Thevenin I had to use other methods), and then showed a practical example from what Dr. Cotter has been developing for circuits.