Suzanne - is that your school in the background?

so pretty

Hi, everyone! I’m Jenae, joining here from Sacramento, CA. Who else is here and where are you joining us from?

Brittnee Fisher- St. Augustine, Florida

Bear in mind that Nate and I will kick off the conversation with our panelists about UDL and online learning, but if you’ve got a question, this will be a roundtable dialogue!

We will keep checking the chat for questions and can invite folks to ask questions of Suzanne, Michelle, or Tom if you’ve got them

Hey, everyone. It's @ThomasJTobin here: glad to be part of our #UDL conversation today. Thanks for being here or watching the recording!

Hello, I’m Karen Costa, Massachusetts

Small world, Brittnee, I’m in Jacksonville, Florida

Hi, Suzanne! :)

Hello! Michelle Bartlett from Raleigh, NC.

Hello all from Syracuse, NY.

WOOOOOO

And has a book coming out. https://wvupressonline.com/node/865

Hello Maddie

@Karen: welcome to the WVU Press fam!

Hi I’m from Sacramento State as well on the UDL team in the Academic Technology Center.

Moi? Not me. Jenae! :)

D'oh: I thought perhaps you'd followed up the 99 book!

Lol not yet.

Karen, you’d be VERY welcome with the WVUP crew, just sayin’ :)

(And thanks for sharing the book link too!)

Also hi @Karen :D

I enjoy selling other people’s books!

Tom’s book is GREAT

https://wvupressonline.com/node/757

👏

Cool story!

Thx, @LaDonna

We <3 the chat! We’d love it if you’d share why you decided to join us today and/or your questions for Tom, Suzanne, and Michelle

We also invite folks other than me and Nate to come on the mic if you’d like to ask your question out loud (but we’re cool with amplifying your voice from the chat too)

I have a question. I’ve been thinking about where ADHD learners fit into UDL. Curious if y’all have thoughts on that. It would seem like a great example of how designing to lower barriers for those students would benefit everyone (in terms of exec function support, attention, engagement).

@Karen, I’m happy to amplify that one! I’m really interested in that too

“If it only impacts one person, that’s enough,” love that thought

Yes, yes, yes @Karen. I hope we talk more about this.

@Kare, that is a good question. It must be such a challenge for k-12 right now

@Karen, ADHD and other attention-based attributes benefit well from a UDL approach, because it's all about offering choices in how learners stay engaged, get information, and show what they know. Everyone thinks ADHD is "ping pong brain," but it also includes the ability to reinforce ideas using multiple methods or materials.

Great question!

Thanks for tackling this in the chat, Tom! We’ll appreciate hearing more out loud too :)…Love that you highlight the ability to reinforce ideas using multiple methods (just as Michelle is voicing here)

And @Tracey, good point about the application for K-12 too

"Multiple means of. . ." can feel like "I have to cover every possibility," so I advise folks to start with a "plus one" mindset. Is there one way interactions happen now? Give just one more way "in."

Sorry Karen, I dropped your n. I did not mean to!

So if lecture’s all you offer, that’s less than ideal...

Excellent point @Thomas! I find my faculty often feel the panic in the "multiple means of..."

I like that @Tom, sounds sustainable for faculty

Further, it doesn’t need to be multiple = 20 different ways… which can equal grading/feedback nightmare.

https://it.wisc.edu/learn/guides/manage-slower-internet-low-bandwidth/

Yes! Adding flexibility does not decrease rigor.

^+1

what does rigor even mean…sorry, loaded question

Absolutely!

😊

Clea, you are trying to start something :)!

always

Both/and

I love that Clea is here to start something!!

Higher ed often lives in either/or

@Clea: yeah!

Rigor and fun can coexist!

(so cool to see you here, Tom!)

Rigor and care!

💜 Karen

That’s a great point, Karen… We can work towards a world where both/and in higher ed can exist and be great!

Rigor and empathy can coexist too! :-)

@Michelle, yes!

Yes, Michelle!

Rigor and flexibility/adaptability, too

Yes, Clea, flexibility has been at the center of that conversation here as well

I am here for your questions, ideas, wholesome content, and pictures of your pets.

100%

“Opportunities for grace” YES

The faculty who I work with tell me they are forever changed. And that’s come at the price of extreme stress and trauma, but they are more flexible, more caring, and better at articulating that to students.

Yes - empathy for everyone!

@Karen: definitely!

Many of them also put off “doing tech stuff” because they were so damn busy. This forced them to learn it, and they are telling me they’re really glad they did. And that they’ll use it even if they go back to f2f.

97 was just yesterday… lol way back??

That’s heartening, Karen! That sentiment reminds me of Kevin Gannon’s Chronicle piece from a while ago about how online teaching made him a better f2f teacher

Karen, that makes me think of my students who have expressed that they would like faculty to leverage vulnerability in their courses now and in the future

Yup, that’s a great piece

And here it is! https://www.chronicle.com/article/teaching-online-will-make-you-a-better-teacher-in-any-setting/

You beat me to it!

:)

thanks for that link Karen!

Zoom is the ketchup!!!! Not the burger

🍔

@Suzanne, love that your students and faculty are discussing vulnerability… That’s so powerful

@Karen, LOVE that

That makes it sounds like zoom is a healthy vegetable tho LOL

“UDL as a way of approaching interactions” is great

we gonna have the ketchup is a vegetable debate, Nate? 😉

HA, that might have to be the topic of a full 30-minute OLC Live!

There goes Clea, trying to start something again LOL :)!

They actually make a ketchup with extra vegetables

whaaaaat

Vulnerability has been a big part of my classroom experience this semester. I think the students require give and take.

@All: I love to help folks see that UDL is *not* “doing tech stuff," but it's a mindset.

@Karen, is it good?

https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/14480-kraft-heinz-debuts-ketchup-with-added-vegetables#:~:text=New%20Heinz%20Tomato%20Ketchup%20with,no%20high%2Dfructose%20corn%20syrup.

There are some good small batch ketchups here in Portland

Totally a mindset, Tom, good point

A question for everyone: what's one thing you do right now that lowers a barrier for learners or for colleagues?

Are you leading a workshop @jenae?

I like to meet with each student one-on-one and ask how they learn and how they like to receive feedback.

I am, Karen!

Which one boo?

And with that… I’m sad to bounce because I’ll be missing everyone’s great recommendations!

Thanks Jenae!

Private one for some faculty at Lynchburg :)

good question, Tom - creating lots of support materials “just in case” learners need them, vs. waiting for them to ask

Oh :(

Should be fun! Look forward to seeing you all on the Internet soon! :)

Have fun

Oh, I like Tom’s question here…can folks answer here in chat? Love to see a list

I know… hopefully there will be some public ones soon!!

Thanks for the conversation, everyone!!

Oh when is that Suzanne???

First 10 minutes of my "live online" class is open office hours. Chatting, question asking, catching up with one another. Trying my best to give my students a classroom experience in Zoom.

love that, Brittnee

We are at the five minute mark - and to avoid interrupting this great conversation, I will add our closing business information here in chat!

@Brittnee: Ooh, nice. You can +1 that with a text-based channel, like chat or a Google Doc. It's a simple thing, but powerful!

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I like to meet with each student one-on-one and ask how they learn and how they like to receive feedback.

We shared a guide for faculty with LMS how-tos presented in a variety of ways: video demo, simulation, and PDF.

Give a student an Incomplete rather than an F

Yes, Karen! I get heat for this though…

@Tracy & @MaryBeth: good to check in and hear your students 1:1 where you can!

oooh that is great, Mary Beth! We made a website for LMS support that used those things, too

Forgiveness not permission! :)

Faculty need options just like our students. :)

For faculty PD sessions, we've promoted sessions as "come as you are" no prep sessions since time is tight. For my students, I've switched to the restrictions to unlock the next assignment so they can work ahead if they need to better accommodate other classes as we approach the end.

+1 for flexibility

I like that Katherine for faculty

Flexibility for mode, time, and space!

@Katherine: love the faculty "come as you are" approach. +1 how they share their ideas.

Everything I do is come as you are

me too, Karen 😂

How else would you come? :)

@Karen, we are not allowed to give an incomplete for the course I teach but what Utica College has done during the pandemic is that students can petition to Withdraw without academic penalty and they can do that even after the grades are posted.

I would like to come as a unicorn

🦄

I’m heading to a 3:30. Thanks all! Have a great rest of your day.

Yes @Clea!

Thanks!

+1 Clea!!! Unicorns welcome!

Is there a unicorn as a video filter!?

Accelerate 2021 - CFP will open in March! Consider submitting your proposal - we hope to see you F2F in Washington, DC in October next year.

(there is but my institution blocks the fun filters, sadly!)

Great discussion - can't wait to see Tom's session later this week to hear more!

Thanks, everyone--catch you all soon!

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Who blocks fun Clea?!

lol consider it done, Tom

Thank you