Episode 88: “It Really Always Comes Back to Design”

About Episode 88:

Guest Shannon Riggs joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss her book “Thrive Online” and a key principle that, when pursuing quality, regardless of online, blended, synchronous, or in-person course modality, “it really always comes back to design.”

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Coffee Links

• Single-origin Kenya (Roaster’s Reserve) from McMenamin‘s Coffee Roasters Portland, Oregon
• 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” recording by Tom and Kelvin)