About Episode 101:
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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- Single Origin Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Kochere from Cup to Cup Coffee Roasters (Savannah, GA)
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Content Links
- “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”
Extra Special Feature
- Video Version of This Episode! (Includes “socially distanced” recording by Tom and Kelvin)
