Using Distance Video with Guest Professors in Class
Yesterday eight students participated in a video chat via Google Hangouts with Dr. Andrew Joseph Pagoda on the subject of racialization, white privilege, and some other similar topics. I had arranged with Pagoda weeks ago not only to open the conversation about these topics with my students, but also to test the technology available on our campus. Pagoda had sent some documents that the students were asked to read before to give students some experience in the topics to be more comfortably engaged. Some observations: 1. My college feels that students should not be engaged in these long distance video conferences. With a student population near 20,000 students, we are not prepared to have these conference where students actually engage with another voice. The potential for unidirectional video is easy -- nearly any room could show a talking head using the banking model of education throwing words at a class. But what has appeared more difficult is to arrange an actual conference whe...