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12:51pm on Tuesday, 2nd February, 2021:
Anecdote
The way my lectures currently run is as follows. There are timetabled Zoom slots for each of my lectures. I have pre-recorded the lectures and release them a week ahead of the timetabled slot. The students watch the lectures before the timetabled slots. In the slots, they ask questions raised by the lectures.
The lecture I gave today required my second-year students to access some files as part of an exercise. I had forgotten to upload these files. It was only this morning that a student told me the slides weren't where I said they'd be. This suggests that no students had watched the pre-recorded lecture in the week it was available to be watched: they only watched it this morning before it started. This is something of a shame, because if people estimated how long it would take to watch the pre-recording based on how long the video is, well, they were in for an unpleasant surprise. It contains instructions such as "pause me for 15 minutes while you do this then unpause me".
This does lead to a lively Q&A in the live slot, though — much better than the questions I get when I deliver the lecture in person. The students who show up seem to like it, too (yesterday, one of them asked me if I'd thought of doing live Twitch sessions) (I replied that people pay me for my thoughts on games, I don't give them out for free; maybe once I've retired). Liveliness among second-year students is almost unheard of, so this is a big deal.
Zoom lectures are therefore working both badly and well at the same time.
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