John Wallace: Okay, so this is a short orientation video on
John Wallace: I'm not quite sure what to call it.
John Wallace: What the classroom environment. This semester because of remote teaching or something like that be, there's three things that I want to say one is that
John Wallace: I am very interested in
John Wallace: To the extent that it's possible.
John Wallace: Including in all aspects of the class those students that are outside the count time zone. So if you're not here.
John Wallace: Within the Pacific time zone, but you are enrolled in this class, you are on my mind. You are a 100% member of the class and I will devote extra time.
John Wallace: To try to work with you in a way so that you feel included and you feel fully present that's important to me. And part of what I'm going to do.
John Wallace: Is try to encourage students on both sides of the ocean. In the case that it's happened if you're in East Asia, but you could be just on the east coast.
John Wallace: For students to be able to meet with each other at various times that might be at odd hours just to talk with each other about the class or something so that
John Wallace: You're not what I what I don't want is for you to just simply be an observer of recorded video sessions I would like more
John Wallace: For your role in the class than that and we will work with that. So that's number one is that that's on my mind. And it's important to me. I hope it's important to you to have the second one is like let me go up. Yes, so
John Wallace: One of the things that I have
John Wallace: That I've noticed as big as a big change in going remote in I'm sure you've noticed that as well. Is that is that when you're not physically in the classroom.
John Wallace: Your the sense of community of being a member of this particular group is has been reduced to some extent. So
John Wallace: I have felt that given the my dialogue based teaching method and peer to peer learning and a sense of us all working together towards something
John Wallace: Which is very important to me. And if if you're not ready to get with that game. This my classes can be difficult for you.
John Wallace: That we will take some time at the beginning of the semester to get to know each other, which is why you have a profile page assignment and why we have community building days.
John Wallace: And then that will continue on this just kind of starts the process, but we'll continue to try
John Wallace: To get to know each other. Some of my classes. I'll open the zoom early so that you can meet with each other without my presence and talk about things.
John Wallace: And I generally went possibles day after classes finished what you're called virtual hallway where we can have more casual discussions that are not recorded.
John Wallace: About the class at these sorts of things to enhance our
John Wallace: personal interactions and it is also one of the reasons that I asked you to be present by video about 50% of the time.
John Wallace: So whatever we can do to establish a sense of knowing each other, to the extent that we can in this remote situation.
John Wallace: I not whatever we can do. But there are things that I will do to try to enhance that. So that's the second thing first is
John Wallace: An inclusion of those students that are outside the time. So, second is the sense of trying to build a community of I don't have communities, a good word here, but whatever.
John Wallace: A group a classroom group a class so that we, we think we know each other a little bit. That's the second one. And then finally, because of the
John Wallace: Well, gosh, you know, I'm not quite sure what it's because of
John Wallace: Remote learning is hard for you and it's hard for me and I your life. Aside from being a student is probably challenged in some ways by the pandemic and given that
John Wallace: I need to that I've decided to assess students in part by the end of the term having one on one interviews.
John Wallace: And given that in order to do that I felt it was only fair to have those interviews wrap up by our week and not extended to finals week
John Wallace: We actually finished our classes, kind of on the early side. So the official last day of class will be somewhere about
John Wallace: Two weeks before the end of the term or week before the end of the term, as we say goodbye to each other as a group and I begin to meet with you individually, so that, for example, let's say that there were four one on one interview days that I have set aside at the end of the term.
John Wallace: That's, that's because I need to meet with 30 students and talk for about 13 minutes with each student, but from your side.
John Wallace: That means that only one of those days for 13 minutes you're in class and the rest of the time you're done with the class or sometimes there's, it's your chance to finish an essay or something like that. So out of the classes will finish on the early side.
John Wallace: Because of the what I think is the
John Wallace: The burdens that we are all experiencing based on the pandemic, maybe not all of us, but some of us and the way that I want to assess students. That's it.