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Host Notes

Hi TOPcast Insiders!

Can you believe we are in the last two months of 2021? We hope that you will consider joining us for the interactive, live recording of the TOPcast year-in-review episode on Monday, November 8, 2021. If you are reading this message prior to 11/5/2021, please feel free to sign-up for the Zoom link to access the session: http://bit.ly/topcastlive21. (The Zoom link will be emailed on 11/5 with a courtesy reminder sent on the morning of 11/8.) If you are unable to join us in real time for this event, please do be sure to catch the episode when it releases on Monday, December 6.

Please join us in continuing to think about how to create the future of high quality online/blended learning. If you have suggestions for episode topics or challenges we can help you resolve, please be quick to reach out at topcast@ucf.edu.

- Tom and Kelvin

TOPcast Insider - Bonus Content

40 minute audio (with verbal link to supporting slides): “Conceptualizing Quality Blended Course Design” - Session By Kelvin at 2021 OLC Accelerate’s Blended Learning Summit

Ep101: Debating “The Cameras-On vs. Cameras-Off Debate”

Hosts Tom and Kelvin explore the various perspectives represented in the “Cameras-On vs. Cameras-Off Debate” with an eye toward finding common ground and actionable insights for designing effective synchronous online sessions beyond the emergency ad hoc remote instruction era.

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“TOP” Resources from UCF

Cameras-On Resources

School Principal Blog Posting: “Is it Really Wrong to Make Students Turn On Their Video Camera During Virtual Class?”
Teacher Blog Posting: “Cameras On: A Response to the Outrage”
Summary of National Survey: “Most Educators Require Kids to Turn Cameras On in Virtual Class, Despite Equity Concerns”
From Oregon State University: “Zoom Camera Pros & Cons”

Cameras-Off Resources

Infographic from Appalachian State University: “Camera Use in Zoom: Making the Right Choice for Your Class”
OLC Accelerate 2021 Session by Rachel Stern-Lockerman: “Shifting towards a #CamerasOff Paradigm”
Research Studies Supporting Cameras-Off by Default

Shockley et al. (2021) in Journal of Applied Psychology: “The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment”
Tomprou et al. (2021) in PLOS ONE. “Speaking out of turn: How video conferencing reduces vocal synchrony and collective intelligence”
Castelli & Sarvary (2021) in Ecology and Evolution. “Why students do not turn on their video cameras during online classes and an equitable and inclusive plan to encourage them to do so”

In Inside Higher Ed: (Opinion by Finders & Munoz) “Cameras-On: Surveillance in the Time of COVID-19”

Book: “The Spectrum of Teaching Styles: From Command to Discovery” (Mosston & Ashworth, 1989)
Kelvin’s Visual: “A Range of Student Engagement”
Book: “Remediation: Understanding New Media” (Bolter & Grusin, 1998)
TOPcast Episode 88: “It Really Always Comes Back to Design”

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Video Version of this Episode! (Includes “socially distanced” recording by Tom and Kelvin)

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