Teaching Online by Going Offline: The Adventure Lecture

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I was hesitant to teach online. But then I discovered that teaching online could mean teaching out in the world.
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Episode 5 of Teaching Without Walls
A few months ago I was been traveling the world making videos for my online classes. I spent one month with my friends in Papua New Guinea where I have worked for 20 years, a few weeks in Vietnam for the Lunar New Year, Thailand to reconnect with our exchange daughter Jane, and then to India to explore Hinduism with Krishna.
It was the result of 4 years of planning, practicing, and experimenting with ways to move my “online” class more and more “out into the world” - to free both myself and my students from the screen, and to explore what’s possible without the limits of the walls of the classroom, or the traditional expectations of what a “class” should be.
In this episode, I want to invite you to think about what it would look like to move your online class out into the world. To take your students on at least one adventure this coming semester by making a video that involves an authentic, unscripted encounter with the world. Your adventure might be in a lab, a studio, an office, or a workshop. It’s anywhere that you can demonstrate your practice. Anywhere that you can show your students how the tools of your discipline really matter.
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@mwesch 4 жыл бұрын

What would an adventure video look like for you in your discipline? Let me know if you have any ideas or questions. I would love to help you all do one of these next semester. It can be a powerful experience for both you and your students. It is the hardest / best / most fun thing I do as an online teacher!

@janetml11 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Mike, No pressure, and if you don't have anything that comes to mind, I get it! If you do, I would love it if you had an idea/suggestion for an adventure video based on what I teach: English. In my freshman comp classes, I put together "challenges" like you did where students personalized the texts and themes we were reading. Mine were 1 per unit. Here are the topics: 1. The Learning Challenge: Try Something New! (This is is the one very similar to yours--2 weeks of doing something new with reflections.) 2. Tech Challenge: Try Something New! (This is about using social media, in this case, Instagram, in a positive way.) 3. Fieldwork of the Familiar: Investigate Gender. (This is about exploring one's own family going back 1 or 2 generations and finding out about gender expectations in order to compare and contrast them with now.) and 4. "Oh, The Writing You'll Do" Challenge (This is about exploring the types of writing that students might do for their potential careers--a discourse ethnography,) For each challenge, students share their experiences with their small groups. If anything jumps out at you, I would love it! If not, I get it. :-)

@CherylColanGCCAZ 4 жыл бұрын

@@janetml11 If you teach literature or poetry, you can maybe take people to where the author or poet lived or wrote, or to see the thing they wrote about. My high-school English teacher took a group of students to Great Britain to explore the locations of British Literature. I'll never forget reading Wordsworth aloud along a hike to get to Tintern Abbey. Maybe you can go on an adventure to find better descriptive words and avoid trite phrases. Find new metaphors and similies by going somewhere and asking no, what is this *really* like?

@CherylColanGCCAZ 4 жыл бұрын

I teach digital multimedia and graphic design. I think an adventure video about using physical graphic design tools to create a mockup could be pretty fun. A lot of students now are unfamiliar with measuring physical objects and designing covers or containers for them, and they haven't used an Exacto knife with a ruler and cutting board to cut out a proof or assemble a mock-up of a product's packaging. Some closeup shots of trimming a printed design - will my teacher slice off part of her finger? - could really have some built-in suspense. Trial and error to get the right print settings to reproduce color could be compressed but still show the process of visual evaluation. It might actually make the tedious a little bit more fun.

@lizwalker2244 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Could you link to some of the cameras you are using for your videos? I'm also wondering what a good adventure could be for my subject matter: human resources management. One thought that comes to mind is possibly visiting other organizations (grassroots and volunteer organizations) to document any applicable activities or processes they have. If anyone has some thoughts on this one, I'm definitely open to suggestions!

@mwesch 4 жыл бұрын

I think there are a lot of opportunities there, especially with the way you have the course set up. The video ideas that jump out immediately to me would be to do a video story about doing one of the challenges. There are some great KZfaqrs who have some great storytelling techniques for this kind of video that you could borrow from, like WheezyWaiter: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rMtjaqWYmZPMgJc.html or Goal Guys: kzfaq.info/love/6MXE0Px3m1aI4vI0pLWzQg You could also share with them your entire writing process, including where you get inspiration, why you write, where you write, how you get through the hard parts, and how you publish (if it involves a review process, you could document the anxiety of sending it off, opening the reviews, processing them, etc.).

@huiye8987 9 ай бұрын

These radios are inspiring. If i could have learnt that three year ago, I would have more engaging classed online.

@donnalafrankie2267 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing that with us! Only wish I was there! GREAT VIDEO!!!

@lanademon4377 4 жыл бұрын

This is wonderful. I have shared your videos with so many faculty colleagues. Thank you.

@julieriley7719 4 жыл бұрын

I am loving all that I am learning from your videos! I felt especially connected to this one as I watch with a large splinter stuck in my foot- an injury from enjoying sprinkler play in the yard with my kids. Maybe the encouragement will help me remove the splinter of hesitation in my creation of videos for my class.

@shannonwebb121 4 жыл бұрын

These videos are outstanding and incredibly inspiring! I hope to be half as good as you are at engaging my students!

@shylacoffel8027 4 жыл бұрын

This video is fantastic!

@maytedepaoli4671 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@ToddHarple Жыл бұрын

As an anthropologist in the business world, I find that these lessons could be equally useful for me. So many people say "You have the best job..." but they only see the high points...it might be fun to show the points in context with a bit of an Adventure Lecture.

@nowexist 4 жыл бұрын

I have been subscribed to your channel since 2007. Your contents were already great back then but it is so awesome to see how your contents developed in every ways. 3:26 to 3:55 is golden nugget!!! Your recent videos are packed with insights and knowledge in super effective way to absorb. I am putting them in my playlists.

@mwesch 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@schauzeit 4 жыл бұрын

The audio is really good even with the GoPro shots. Were those from the built-in mic or external ones?

@mwesch 4 жыл бұрын

All built in. I never have time to properly mic up in the field. The audio quality on the newest gopros is really good.

@mr.hartman7502 3 жыл бұрын

I am a Wesch fan. I’m taking notes like a wild_man,. I’m not sure why. I feel like I am at the end of a 33 year stent as a public school teacher. Many of the same conclusions about the benefits of getting out of the classroom I’ve been incorporating throughout my career. Maybe it’s just nice hearing someone else come to the same conclusions.