[Facnet-l] Question about Zoom policy

[Umar Ghuman]

Thanks Ellen! I like that approach, and we can collectively come up with a list of best practices that would work for all. Oh yes .. that’ll work! Plus we read Follet and her understandings of participatory democracy, and community engagement and this would be a great exercise! Thanks!


Sincerely,

Umar Ghuman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Co-Director, MPA Program
Director, Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management
Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Leadership Studies
California State University Stanislaus
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From: Ellen Bell <eebell at csustan.edu>
Date: Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 1:31 PM
To: Umar Ghuman <ughuman at csustan.edu>, "facnet-l at csustan.edu" <facnet-l at csustan.edu>
Subject: RE: [Facnet-l] Question about Zoom policy

Hi Umar,

This just came up in Dr. Rema Reynolds’ workshop in the Confronting Anti-Black Racism on College Campuses training that Dr. Aletha Harven and CIENCIA organized (https://www.csustan.edu/ciencia/anti-black-racism-training).

What about taking a co-creation approach?  You could discuss it with your students on the first day of classes, see what they think/feel about it, explain why you’d like everyone to have their video on, and see if that’s the best way to encourage active participation in discussions. Students might have other suggestions—or agree to be responsible for participating actively if they need to have their video off.  If the blank screens with names make it harder, maybe you could walk students through adding a picture to their Zoom profile so you’d at least see their face.

I’ve been thinking about the same thing, so I appreciate your bringing it up!

Thanks,
Eb


From: Facnet-l <facnet-l-bounces at lists.csustan.edu> On Behalf Of Umar Ghuman
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 11:07 AM
To: facnet-l at csustan.edu
Subject: [Facnet-l] Question about Zoom policy

Greetings,

I am teaching a graduate seminar that I’m teaching online for the first time, and I wanted to enquire if any faculty that have similar , discussion heavy, seminars and are requiring a “camera on” policy during a synchronous Zoom session. Since my course is heavily discussion and case discussion based, I tend to encourage participation and students voicing informed opinions, and POVs; it’s always been a challenge to try and get them to talk during an in-class session. However I feel it may be even harder to get a discussion going if I’m staring at blank Zoom screens, but students may have issues such as childcare, or lack of access to a camera. Has anyone fashioned a syllabus statement that addresses that and encourages a “Camera-on” policy, and yet (the policy) is mindful of student constraints?  Or should I not even ask for such a requirement?


Sincerely,

Umar Ghuman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Co-Director, MPA Program
Director, Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management
Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Leadership Studies
California State University Stanislaus
One University Circle, Turlock, CA 95382
 t. 209 667 3682

ughuman at csustan.edu<mailto:ughuman at csustan.edu>
www.csustan.edu/mpa<http://www.csustan.edu/mpa>
www.csustan.edu/npm-certificate<http://www.csustan.edu/npm-certificate>
www.csustan.edu/grant-writing<http://www.csustan.edu/grant-writing>

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