Third Monday Host Notes

Hi TOPcast Insiders!

Are you thinking of “design” as a crucial quality assurance strategy when it comes to post-pandemic synchronous online courses? Will you have difficulty implementing that approach after a year of ad hoc, emergency remote instruction? How are you planning to address those challenges? We would love to hear what you’re thinking. Please drop us a line at topcast@ucf.edu. 

- Tom and Kelvin

Coffee Links

• Single-origin Kenya (Roaster’s Reserve) from McMenamin‘s Coffee Roasters Portland, Oregon. (Coffee origin rotates. Kenya might not be available.)
• McMenamin‘s Coffee Roasters
• “Cosmic Tripster” Passport Program at McMenamin‘s

Content Links

• Shannon Riggs’ Online Profile
• Shannon Riggs’ Bio at Oregon State University’s Ecampus
• Book (on Amazon): “Thrive Online: A New Approach to Building Expertise and Confidence as an Online Educator” (Riggs)
• The Thrive Online Book Series (edited by Dr. Katie Linder)
• TOPcast Episode #87: “Repairing Our Reputation Post-COVID”

Just for Fun Pop Culture Links

• 1 minute video: “Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey” (from Saturday Night Live)
• 1 minute video clip: Tarzan and Quicksand (from 1945’s “Tarzan and the Amazons”)
• 2 minute video: Comic John Mulaney on Quicksand
• (from GroovyHistory) “How '60s And '70s TV And Movies Made Us Scared Of Quicksand”
  

Extra Special Feature

• Video Version of This Episode! (Includes “socially distanced” remote recording of interview by Kelvin and Tom)