The A&P Professor: Simple Ideas for Pandemic Teaching

Simple Ideas for Pandemic Teaching | TAPP 67

Apr 20, 2020

Join host Kevin Patton as he provides a simple recipe for remote teaching, reveals his new (free) eBook, explains the value of video walk-throughs, tells why he wants to be like Zoom, and gives sources for resources.

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Book Club: Pandemic Teaching

3 minutes

Pandemic Teaching: A Survival Guide for College Faculty
- by Kevin Patton
- books2read.com/PandemicTeaching (please share this link with your teacher friends!)
For the complete list (and more) go to theAPprofessor.org/BookClub
Special opportunity
- Contribute YOUR book recommendation for A&P teachers!
  - Be sure include your reasons for recommending it
- Any contribution used will receive a $25 gift certificate
- The best contribution is one that you have recorded in your own voice (or in a voicemail at 1-833-LION-DEN)
For the complete list (and more) go to theAPprofessor.org/BookClub

Simple Ideas

14.5 minutes

Kevin offers a simple formula—based on simple ideas—for us to quickly set up a remote course.

This segment is based on a presentation given at the April 9, 2020, HAPS Town Hall Meeting.
The video version: youtu.be/feW9Kcwhm1I

Zoombombing Revisited

3 minutes

Zoombombing involves unwanted intrusion into our web meetings. There are ways to avoid this however!

Check out the Zoombombing segment in the previous episode
- Slides Serve the Story of Anatomy & Physiology | Episode 66
A Message to Our Users (Zoom's plan for preventing Zoombombing) my-ap.us/2z7Yfw0
Zoom: Support during the COVID-19 pandemic (Zoom's set of resources) my-ap.us/34M8ce4
Settings to Prevent Zoom-Bombing: How to safely host public meetings on Zoom without being interrupted by uninvited attendees. (tips from Occidental College) my-ap.us/2VfXUzU
- ‘Zoombombing’ Attacks Disrupt Classes (article discussing the importance of familiarizing yourself with the settings in your web meeting platform to avoid intrusive and offensive interruption) my-ap.us/2WGYCHH
- How to Keep the Party Crashers from Crashing Your Zoom Event (post from Zoom on how to manage settings for safety) my-ap.us/3bwesZY
- Are Zoom Chats Private? Here’s Why You Should Think Before Opening The App (Forbes article) my-ap.us/2wfqyaM
- ‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform (article from The Guardian) my-ap.us/2wgde62
Bonus tools
- Web Meeting & Webinar Skills (student handout you can use or adapt for your course)
- Web Meeting-Webinar Security Tips (faculty resource for preventing unwanted disruptions)
- The two bonus tools are found only in the TAPP app
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  - Even folks who don't know how to access a podcast can download an app
5-minutes to a Great Virtual Meeting Experience (Steve Stewart's video summarizing what he's learned about doing web meetings. You can share this with your students, too.)
- theAPprofessor.org/SteveVideo

Video Walk-throughs

3.5 minutes

Video walk-throughs—screencasts—but effective way to help students navigate their way into and through our online course platforms and other tools. Here are some tips for doing that.

A way-past episode first introduced video walk-throughs and has additional tips: Cumulative Testing Makes Learning Last | Episode 4
Kevin usually uses Snagit or Camtasia for his video walk-throughs. The makker, TechSmith, currently offers free access to Snagit and other software during the COVID-19 pandemic. techsmith.pxf.io/9MkPW

Pandemic Teaching Resources

1 minute

The A&P Professor website now as a page dedicated to pandemic teaching from our archives, our sponsors, and elsewhere.

Pandemic Teaching

Offer from ADInstruments

1.5 minutes

Episode sponsor ADInstruments is offering their Lt online learning platform with content for laboratory solutions in physiology, anatomy, and biology free at this time to help professors get ready-to-go, quality online lab experiences quickly.

🡲 Just go to Adinstruments.com/lt/covid19 to get this offer.
And tell 'em The A&P Professor podcast is where you heard about it!

If you want to check out the possibilities for your course, check out the weekly live Lt workshops at my-ap.us/LtLive

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