Using ZOOM IN
ONLINE & BLENDED learning ENVIRONMENTS
My work with this Zoom pilot came about when I was helping Suk Massey, lecturer in East Asian Languages & Literature, to organize the online components of her J-term Korean I Intensive Study Moodle courses. Suk wanted to host five 2-hour live lectures online that could be recorded and posted so students who couldn't attend could still review the lectures. We posted the link to her Zoom Personal ID room at the top of each course so students could log into the Moodle course and join the live lecture. This worked out well because all of the content that Suk was discussing was in Moodle so students could follow along and Suk could easily access any of the content she wanted to share during her live lectures such as one of the 4 e-books that Suk self-published using Pressbooks. (an earlier project I advised her on)
In addition to using Zoom in an online forum, Suk Massey also used Zoom in her on-ground 300 level Korean course to allow students to attend class from two other 5 College campuses. Suk really wanted the remote students to feel connected to the classroom experience so we worked out a solution to allow her to put students who were remote and those in class in Zoom breakout rooms together so they could practice speaking in Korean. Suk could then join each breakout room to facilitate. As students were in breakout rooms, one student typed notes in Korean using the screenshare and whiteboard tools and then, when Suk brought the students back to the main room, each group was able to share their notes with the class.
Faculty are using Zoom to record lectures, to connect students with programs abroad, to allow students to log in to class when they are sick or snowed in, and in blended and online forums. Below is the Zoom promotional video that I implemented, scripted and conducted 1-hour interviews via Zoom with faculty to determine a storyboard and final script. This, then allowed Senior Producer, Kate Lee, to finalize the shooting script and proceed with the video interviews and editing. This piece was designed to showcase the variety of work being done at Smith using Zoom to promote the enterprise rollout and to encourage faculty to implement it into their teaching.
Zoom at Smith: Web Conferencing Promotional Video for Enterprise Rollout
During this pilot, I was been able to test this tool for a myriad of pedagogical situations and found the simplicity and technological soundness to be revolutionary. I have been working in online forums for years and the biggest issue that I have always run into is the lack of fluid, intuitive, live and recorded communication tools. In my opinion, Zoom is the solution for online communication.
This Zoom Pilot defines the process I have used over the years to determine a specific set of tools, from communication to publishing to project development, that I recommend for online and blended learning.