{"id":405,"date":"2020-03-21T18:41:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/?p=405"},"modified":"2020-03-21T18:44:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T18:44:55","slug":"covid-19-thank-god-for-zoom-and-msteams-and-adaptable-patient-students-and-external-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/helenadamson\/2020\/03\/21\/covid-19-thank-god-for-zoom-and-msteams-and-adaptable-patient-students-and-external-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Thank God for Zoom and MSTeams and adaptable, patient, students and external speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
My module for MSc Biodiversity Consevation and Ecosystem Management started on 16th March – as the Universities shut down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was so looking forward to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
learning to make promotional videos<\/li>
students taking us on guided tours of local Nature Reserves<\/li>
external speakers ond Policy and Practice from NP AONB partnership, Natural History Society etc.<\/li>
Trips to Hepple rewilding and Chillingham wild cattle<\/li>
… was going to be my best module ever <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
But I know my problems of a thwarted module were nothing compared to many, so we girded our loins and got our thinking caps on and wrestled with technology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Lowe from Northumberland Rivers Trust came to talk to us in person about Northumberland Rivers – and crayfish <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nOur first technological Zoom success was Adam talking to us about Wildlife Licensing from his home to all of us at home – with students sending questions in on the chat <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nActually, this was a different module – Hannah and I are running oral exams for 30 agric students. Huge success. Wish this was their final exam actually – so much better than written exams as you really get a feel for what student knows, can meet them exactly where they are at, give them immediate feedback, they can self-assess and it is practice for job interview . Written exams are not practice for anything – IMO. Recommend them as replacements for modules this summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThen I tried to do bird calls using MSTeams – not sure of its success, but we did get the audio to work and the chat to work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
More next week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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