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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf Four quick thoughts for mixed online/in-person teaching, seminars, workshops. Also, consider being fully online?! Two tech ideas (screens, mics) and two on structure (formally call on people, have an online coordinator) Agnostic to software... E.g., Zoom and Webex both work 1/
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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf 1. Screens. The most important thing is a big screen that lets the presenter see the online participants’ faces. Ideally this is an external monitor in the audience section or back of the room, but anything’s better than nothing. 2/
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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf Screens (cont.) If you’re willing to get a bit fancier, it’s great to also have a screen at the front of the room that lets the in-person audience see the online audience’s faces. 3/
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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf 2. Mics. The most important thing for keeping online participants engaged is that the presenter’s audio sounds OK. A wireless lavalier mic is really great for this. (I have this one amzn.to/2WWgiin ). 4/
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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf Mics (cont.) If you only have a lav or handheld mic for the presenter, she will need to repeat live audience questions so the online audience can hear them. If you’re willing to get fancier, you can add a second room mic for the live audience. 5/
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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf Screens and mics (cont.) Remember you can have more than one computer in the seminar room logged into the same Zoom/Webex meeting! So e.g., use one for slide sharing and presenter audio, another in the back of the room to show online faces to the presenter, and for room audio. 6/
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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf 4. Calling on people. I love the back-and-forth of the econ seminar room and disucission classroom, but you’re going to leave out the online participants. Mixed online/face-to-face is a good place to ask people to raise their hands and call on them. 7/
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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf 5. Coordinator. I'd highly recommend having a person live in the room who is explicitly responsible for coordinating the online participants. (This could be a regular audience member, or e.g., a TA.) The coordinator is responsible for monitoring the online chat and... 8/
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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf Coordinator (cont.) ...the video feed. If there's an online question, the coordinator can raise their hand (or be allowed just to speak up) in the physical room and either read a question that came up in chat, or can say "Mary online has a question." 9/
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@C__Kronenberg @EGolberstein @causalinf Coordinator (cont). The latter—having online participants ask their own questions—increases the tech needs, since you need an audio feed from the Zoom/Webex to speakers in the seminar room. 10/(10, for now at least).
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