No visual... because, how do you add visuals to this thing? Heh.
I have nothing to add to this except the posting was sent to me by my soon-to-be-new Dean of Instruction.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-your-hastily-prepared-online-college-course
MARCH 16, 2020
WELCOME TO YOUR HASTILY PREPARED ONLINE COLLEGE COURSE
by RYAN WEBER
Due to concerns
about COVID-19, our university recently gave me three hours to move our
entire class online for the next three to sixteen weeks. I am providing these
instructions for a seamless, uninterrupted course experience. I have never
taught online before, but with the help of our men’s field hockey coach turned
online-learning coordinator, I have developed a virtual experience that matches
the intimacy and rigor we cultivated in our Philosophy of Face-to-Face
Discourse In the Public Square class.
COURSE
COMMUNICATION
We will use AOL Instant
Messenger to recreate our passionate in-class discussions. I assume everyone
has an AIM account, so please send out your usernames. Mine is
HangingChad2000. For fun, I encourage everyone to include their favorite Donnie
Darko quote as their away message.
VIDEO
LECTURES
Lecture One
Content: I look in the camera and say, “Is this
on? Is this on? Oh, I think it’s on! Wait, it’s not on! No, it is on! How do I
share my screen?! I don’t think this is on.”
Takeaways: The camera was on.
Takeaways: The camera was on.
Lecture Two
Content: I rhapsodize beautifully about
Habermasian theories of the public square as they apply in times of pandemic
before I realize that the camera was not on.
Takeaways: I don’t remember what I said, but it felt like a pretty amazing lecture. You would have loved it.
Takeaways: I don’t remember what I said, but it felt like a pretty amazing lecture. You would have loved it.
Lecture Three
Content: I provide an introduction to Amartya
Sen’s work while my cat repeatedly sticks her butt into the camera and then
knocks the laptop to the floor.
Takeaways: My laptop is now glitching after falling on the ground. This should not affect our course experience.
Takeaways: My laptop is now glitching after falling on the ground. This should not affect our course experience.
Lecture Four
Content: A YouTube clip of Bill and Ted meeting
Socrates.
Takeaways: “All we are is dust in the wind, dude.”
Takeaways: “All we are is dust in the wind, dude.”
DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS
Please respond to the
following discussion questions in our official course ICQ chatroom
(formerly my Star Trek: Deep Space 9-fan chatroom. Please ignore my
lengthy posts about why Jadzia Dax should have never married Commander Worf. I
can’t figure out how to delete those).
Question 1: Which philosopher provides the more
compelling revision of the idea of the public square: Nancy Fraser or Michael
Warner?
Question 2: I don’t know, maybe write something
about what Hannah Arendt would think of Facebook? Or should it be Instagram?
What do you kids use these days?
Question 3: Who would get more swipe rights on
Tinder: Hegel or Heidegger? Please provide at least three quotes and one image
to defend your answer.
FINAL
EXAM
I will email a Word 93
version of the exam to you. When you open it, the formatting will be all messed
up. Please print out the 27-page exam, complete it in blue or black ink, then
take it to Kinkos and have them fax it back to me. Please complete the exam in
two hours. If I understood a conversation I overheard in the hall correctly,
you can time yourself with an online timer application called “TikTok.” It
should be available on your mobile telephones.
INTERNET
ACCESS
I know some of you may
struggle to get consistent internet access after the university removed you
from your dorms. If you went back home, your parents do not remember the
wireless password because they only wrote it down on that Ruby Tuesday receipt
they lost six months ago. If you had to temporarily move into the Drury Inn and
Suites on Highway 53, I heard you can steal Wi-Fi from the self-storage place
across the road from 2:00-4:00 most afternoons.
FINAL
THOUGHTS
Thank you for your
patience in moving this course online! The good news is that our work will not
go to waste, because no matter how terribly this goes, the administration will
take this experience as proof that we can offer this course exclusively online
and run this version of the course, without revision, online for the next ten
years.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2003.17 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1718 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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