TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast Episode 73: Field Report #6: “Message-Infused” Communications During COVID
Sep 8, 2020
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About Episode 73:
Stakeholder communications are especially important during a crisis. What do you do when communications are misinterpreted? Hosts Kelvin and Tom talk through COVID-era communication strategies. This episode is the sixth in a mini-series of monthly “field reports” offering collegial advice in getting through the current era of “remote teaching” necessitated by COVID-19.
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Coffee Links
- Spirit-Infused (Bourbon) Coffee from Fire Department Coffee
- Fire Department Coffee (Rockford, Illinois)
Content Links
- From Pew Charitable Trusts: “College Students Want Their Money Back. It’ll Be Tough to Get It.”
- From Expert Institute: “More Than 70 Universities Sued for Refunds Following COVID-19 Campus Closures”
- In Inside Higher Ed: “August Wave of Campus Reopening Reversals”
- Communication Examples from UCF
- “Distance Learning” Webpage about Quality Online Learning at UCF
- Modalities Video: “Types of Courses at UCF”
- Tom’s “Distance Learning” 5 minute Q&A YouTube video
- Video: Student Virtual Forum on Fall 2020 (Cued to Online Cost Question)
- Student-produced Video from UCF Honors Students: “Important Things and Stuff: Class Modalities”
- Steven Crawford’s Tweet on the Agricultural Basis of Alcohol
- TOPcast Episode #1: “What is Online Learning? Definitions, Boundary Objects, and Baggage”
- TOPcast Episode #67: “Field Report 03: Carrying Out a ‘More Online Every Semester’ Strategy”
- TOPcast Episode #71: “Field Report 05: Finding Flexibility for F2F This Fall: The BlendFlex Approach”
UCF Job Postings (Mentioned in this Episode)
- Director of Instructional Design
- Full-Time Faculty Instructional Designers (Will post direct link soon. Search for “instructional designer”)
Just for Fun Pop Culture Links
- Mailbag Clip from “Miracle on 34th Street”
Extra Special Feature
- Video Version of This Episode! (Includes “socially distanced” recording by Tom and Kelvin)