RE: [gep-ed] just a thought

[Wil Burns]

Great idea; we should do that; I’d be game, been increasingly moving to online 
presentations anyway. wil

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Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:49 PM
To: promu...@susannemoser.com; Dana R Fisher 
Cc: rmitc...@uoregon.edu; GEPED 
Subject: Re: [gep-ed] just a thought

this is a great idea!
syma

>>(*>>>(*>>>(*>
Syma A. Ebbin, PhD.


On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 7:24:02 AM EDT, Dana R Fisher 
mailto:drfis...@umd.edu>> wrote:


Susi makes a good point for people who are brought in as experts and not 
currently teaching.

Perhaps those of us who are currently teaching could consider putting together 
some sort of a cooperative though?  For example, I'm currently teaching my 
environmental sociology class to advanced undergrads and some graduate 
students.  I've got online classes coming up when we resume on: climate change, 
environmental attitudes and behaviors, post materialism, the environmental 
movement, environmental justice, food and waste, and environmental stewardship.

If anyone on the list wanted to discuss a swap on one of these topics for 
something that I am an expert in and frequently give talks about (such as 
environmental activism, environmental stewardship, environmental protest, 
climate politics and echo chambers), I'd be happy to see if we can make 
something work...

I hope everyone else is staying safe in these crazy times!

Dana

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New Book: AMERICAN RESISTANCE
Director, Program for Society and the Environment
Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
2112 Parren Mitchell Art-Sociology Building
3834 Campus Drive
College Park, MD  20742
drfis...@umd.edu / phone: 301-405-6469
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:03 AM 
promu...@susannemoser.com 
mailto:promu...@susannemoser.com>> wrote:
Hi Ron,
As someone who often is a guest speaker, just remember that your guest speakers 
are going through their own little hell of adjusting everything they do right 
now. So, check your speaker budgets and consider being generous. The usual 
couple hundred bucks doesn't even begin to cover the time a good speaker spends 
to prepare a good talk or even just the time they spend coming to your class.

So, one more layer of attitude and institutional shift here: compensate people 
adequately for their time. Do not assume they can afford volunteer time right 
now. And consider inviting people who are losing work and income right now due 
to COVID19 and offer them a decent stipend to help them out.

That way, you getting help actually helps, not burdens, someone else too.

Best to all and stay sane and healthy,
Susi

Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos


 Original message 
From: Ronald Mitchell mailto:rmitc...@uoregon.edu>>
Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: GEPED mailto:gep-ed@googlegroups.com>>
Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought


One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for 
streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest 
speakers.  We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the 
lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures 
for us while giving our students better content.



I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks 
it’s a good idea.



Ron



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Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies

University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284

rmitc...@uoregon.edu

https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/

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Re: [gep-ed] just a thought

[syma ebbin]

this is a great idea!syma

>>(*>>>(*>>>(*> 
Syma A. Ebbin, PhD. 

On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 7:24:02 AM EDT, Dana R Fisher 
 wrote:  
 
 Susi makes a good point for people who are brought in as experts and not 
currently teaching. 
Perhaps those of us who are currently teaching could consider putting together 
some sort of a cooperative though?  For example, I'm currently teaching my 
environmental sociology class to advanced undergrads and some graduate 
students.  I've got online classes coming up when we resume on: climate change, 
environmental attitudes and behaviors, post materialism, the environmental 
movement, environmental justice, food and waste, and environmental stewardship. 
 

If anyone on the list wanted to discuss a swap on one of these topics for 
something that I am an expert in and frequently give talks about (such as 
environmental activism, environmental stewardship, environmental protest, 
climate politics and echo chambers), I'd be happy to see if we can make 
something work...
I hope everyone else is staying safe in these crazy times!
Dana
---
Dana R. Fisher, Ph.D.New Book: AMERICAN RESISTANCE Director, Program for 
Society and the EnvironmentProfessor of Sociology, University of Maryland2112 
Parren Mitchell Art-Sociology Building 3834 Campus DriveCollege Park, MD  
20742drfis...@umd.edu / phone: 301-405-6469 www.drfisher.umd.edu @Fisher_DanaR
pronouns: She/Her



On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:03 AM promu...@susannemoser.com 
 wrote:

Hi Ron,As someone who often is a guest speaker, just remember that your guest 
speakers are going through their own little hell of adjusting everything they 
do right now. So, check your speaker budgets and consider being generous. The 
usual couple hundred bucks doesn't even begin to cover the time a good speaker 
spends to prepare a good talk or even just the time they spend coming to your 
class.
So, one more layer of attitude and institutional shift here: compensate people 
adequately for their time. Do not assume they can afford volunteer time right 
now. And consider inviting people who are losing work and income right now due 
to COVID19 and offer them a decent stipend to help them out. 
That way, you getting help actually helps, not burdens, someone else too.
Best to all and stay sane and healthy,Susi
Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos

 Original message From: Ronald Mitchell  
Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00) To: GEPED  Subject: 
[gep-ed] just a thought 

One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for 
streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest 
speakers.  We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the 
lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures 
for us while giving our students better content. 

 

I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks 
it’s a good idea.

 

Ron 

 

Ronald Mitchell, Professor

Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies

University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284

rmitc...@uoregon.edu

https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/

IEA Database Director:https://iea.uoregon.edu/

 


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Re: [gep-ed] just a thought

[Paul Steinberg]

Hi All,

In a pinch, feel free to have students check out the multimedia materials
of The Social Rules Project at rulechangers.org.  The film is 10 minutes
long and the videogame (on institutions and the politics of tropical
conservation) is about 1 hour of play.  They can also construct their own
"institutional landscapes" like those in the "see your world" link by
taking a day-in-the-life image of their choosing from the web, and creating
a powerpoint presentation researching the institutional underpinnings of
the scene.  There is an educator's guide on the landing page.

Cheers,
Paul

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:47 AM Libby Lunstrum <
libbylunst...@boisestate.edu> wrote:

> You can also check out this project for Anthropology related videos:
> https://anthrodendum.org/2020/03/16/introducing-the-collective-anthro-mini-lectures-project-for-covidcampus/
>
> Good luck, everyone, in these uncertain times!
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:34 AM Travis Stills 
> wrote:
>
>> Check out the PIELC.org brochure for several days worth of  potentially
>> relevant presentations that were not presented in Eugene, but may be ready
>> to go.
>>
>> Some went ahead as webinars and may be available.  The panelists are part
>> of a generous community that often provides guest lectures. I am confident
>> that the student organizers would enjoy seeing their efforts put to good
>> use.
>>
>> Stay well,
>>
>> Travis
>> On 3/18/2020 7:35 AM, Roopali Phadke wrote:
>>
>> Thanks everyone for your thoughts today. I have one month left in my
>> environmental policy course and my challenge, which I am sure is shared, is
>> do I continue business as usual or lean into this crisis and throw out what
>> I had planned in favor of the kinds of questions Susi posed.
>>
>> I am also not confident that Zoom will see us through our "regular"
>> schedule. On top of that, I think students will burn out after a week or
>> two and just stop participating if I don't make it feel relevant. Our
>> campus has given them all the option of taking the semester pass/fail and
>> most of them have done well enough to just quit and still pass.
>>
>> The idea of creating smaller working groups of students who can meet
>> asynchronously most of the time, with virtual office hour support from me,
>> seems the way to go. I'd love to know if others are interested in
>> collectively coming up with a GEP-related COVID question *and resource*
>> repository.
>>
>> Best,
>> Roopali
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:22 AM promu...@susannemoser.com <
>> promu...@susannemoser.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning.
>>>
>>> I love the emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange of
>>> speakers. You could also put your budgets together and record a speaker who
>>> then is shared virtually.
>>>
>>> BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and logistics,
>>> i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT?
>>>
>>> Somewhere I saw a note about prioritization, but that is just about
>>> weeding out and I doubt you all feel like you had tons of fluff in your
>>> classes to begin with.
>>>
>>> So, my thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction, taking
>>> off from the "not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea I emailed about
>>> earlier.
>>>
>>> I mean, for a group like this one assembled on this listservs, doesn't
>>> this crisis raise whole new (or new once again) questions such as:
>>> * how does a global crisis like this affect the conditions for
>>> (international) political and policy cooperation?
>>> * how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the conditions
>>> and outlook for environmental policy making and implementation?
>>> * what does precarity mean in global environmental politics?
>>> * what can we learn from this health-cum-economic crisis about the weak
>>> spots in our globalized systems?
>>> * how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption?
>>>
>>> Oh, I am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and all of a
>>> sudden the contents of your classes gains a whole new level of immediacy
>>> and relevance. Students will be way more engaged because everyone's brains
>>> are already in this crisis. And because none of us have the answer to this,
>>> you may use zoom classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective
>>> thinking and learning events than just trying to figure out "delivery
>>> mechanisms."
>>>
>>> Heck, universities could once again be places for true intellectualism
>>> and serve society well in this difficult time.
>>>
>>> Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can imagine so many
>>> variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case study will be an
>>> utterly real teaching device for oh so many things...
>>>
>>> Susi
>>>
>>> Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos
>>>
>>>
>>>  Original message 
>>> From: Ronald Mitchell 
>>> Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
>>> To: GEPED 
>>> 

Re: [gep-ed] just a thought

[Libby Lunstrum]

You can also check out this project for Anthropology related videos:
https://anthrodendum.org/2020/03/16/introducing-the-collective-anthro-mini-lectures-project-for-covidcampus/

Good luck, everyone, in these uncertain times!

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:34 AM Travis Stills  wrote:

> Check out the PIELC.org brochure for several days worth of  potentially
> relevant presentations that were not presented in Eugene, but may be ready
> to go.
>
> Some went ahead as webinars and may be available.  The panelists are part
> of a generous community that often provides guest lectures. I am confident
> that the student organizers would enjoy seeing their efforts put to good
> use.
>
> Stay well,
>
> Travis
> On 3/18/2020 7:35 AM, Roopali Phadke wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone for your thoughts today. I have one month left in my
> environmental policy course and my challenge, which I am sure is shared, is
> do I continue business as usual or lean into this crisis and throw out what
> I had planned in favor of the kinds of questions Susi posed.
>
> I am also not confident that Zoom will see us through our "regular"
> schedule. On top of that, I think students will burn out after a week or
> two and just stop participating if I don't make it feel relevant. Our
> campus has given them all the option of taking the semester pass/fail and
> most of them have done well enough to just quit and still pass.
>
> The idea of creating smaller working groups of students who can meet
> asynchronously most of the time, with virtual office hour support from me,
> seems the way to go. I'd love to know if others are interested in
> collectively coming up with a GEP-related COVID question *and resource*
> repository.
>
> Best,
> Roopali
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:22 AM promu...@susannemoser.com <
> promu...@susannemoser.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning.
>>
>> I love the emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange of
>> speakers. You could also put your budgets together and record a speaker who
>> then is shared virtually.
>>
>> BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and logistics,
>> i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT?
>>
>> Somewhere I saw a note about prioritization, but that is just about
>> weeding out and I doubt you all feel like you had tons of fluff in your
>> classes to begin with.
>>
>> So, my thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction, taking
>> off from the "not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea I emailed about
>> earlier.
>>
>> I mean, for a group like this one assembled on this listservs, doesn't
>> this crisis raise whole new (or new once again) questions such as:
>> * how does a global crisis like this affect the conditions for
>> (international) political and policy cooperation?
>> * how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the conditions and
>> outlook for environmental policy making and implementation?
>> * what does precarity mean in global environmental politics?
>> * what can we learn from this health-cum-economic crisis about the weak
>> spots in our globalized systems?
>> * how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption?
>>
>> Oh, I am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and all of a
>> sudden the contents of your classes gains a whole new level of immediacy
>> and relevance. Students will be way more engaged because everyone's brains
>> are already in this crisis. And because none of us have the answer to this,
>> you may use zoom classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective
>> thinking and learning events than just trying to figure out "delivery
>> mechanisms."
>>
>> Heck, universities could once again be places for true intellectualism
>> and serve society well in this difficult time.
>>
>> Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can imagine so many
>> variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case study will be an
>> utterly real teaching device for oh so many things...
>>
>> Susi
>>
>> Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos
>>
>>
>>  Original message 
>> From: Ronald Mitchell 
>> Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: GEPED 
>> Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought
>>
>> One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps
>> for streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in
>> guest speakers.  We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known
>> subjects (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of
>> developing lectures for us while giving our students better content.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone
>> thinks it’s a good idea.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
>> Ronald Mitchell, Professor
>>
>> Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies
>>
>> University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
>>
>> rmitc...@uoregon.edu
>>
>> https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/
>>
>> IEA Database 

Re: [gep-ed] just a thought

[Travis Stills]

Check out the PIELC.org brochure for several days worth of potentially 
relevant presentations that were not presented in Eugene, but may be 
ready to go.


Some went ahead as webinars and may be available.  The panelists are 
part of a generous community that often provides guest lectures. I am 
confident that the student organizers would enjoy seeing their efforts 
put to good use.


Stay well,

Travis

On 3/18/2020 7:35 AM, Roopali Phadke wrote:
Thanks everyone for your thoughts today. I have one month left in my 
environmental policy course and my challenge, which I am sure is 
shared, is do I continue business as usual or lean into this crisis 
and throw out what I had planned in favor of the kinds of questions 
Susi posed.


I am also not confident that Zoom will see us through our "regular" 
schedule. On top of that, I think students will burn out after a week 
or two and just stop participating if I don't make it feel relevant. 
Our campus has given them all the option of taking the semester 
pass/fail and most of them have done well enough to just quit and 
still pass.


The idea of creating smaller working groups of students who can meet 
asynchronously most of the time, with virtual office hour support from 
me, seems the way to go. I'd love to know if others are interested in 
collectively coming up with a GEP-related COVID question /*and 
resource*/ repository.


Best,
Roopali

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:22 AM promu...@susannemoser.com 
 > wrote:



Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning.

I love the emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange
of speakers. You could also put your budgets together and record a
speaker who then is shared virtually.

BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and
logistics, i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT?

Somewhere I saw a note about prioritization, but that is just
about weeding out and I doubt you all feel like you had tons of
fluff in your classes to begin with.

So, my thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction,
taking off from the "not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea
I emailed about earlier.

I mean, for a group like this one assembled on this listservs,
doesn't this crisis raise whole new (or new once again) questions
such as:
* how does a global crisis like this affect the conditions for
(international) political and policy cooperation?
* how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the
conditions and outlook for environmental policy making and
implementation?
* what does precarity mean in global environmental politics?
* what can we learn from this health-cum-economic crisis about the
weak spots in our globalized systems?
* how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption?

Oh, I am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and
all of a sudden the contents of your classes gains a whole new
level of immediacy and relevance. Students will be way more
engaged because everyone's brains are already in this crisis. And
because none of us have the answer to this, you may use zoom
classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective thinking
and learning events than just trying to figure out "delivery
mechanisms."

Heck, universities could once again be places for true
intellectualism and serve society well in this difficult time.

Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can imagine so
many variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case
study will be an utterly real teaching device for oh so many things...

Susi

Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos


 Original message 
From: Ronald Mitchell mailto:rmitc...@uoregon.edu>>
Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: GEPED mailto:gep-ed@googlegroups.com>>
Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought

One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or
other apps for streaming lectures might be an excellent,
low-carbon way to bring in guest speakers.  We could each “trade”
guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the lectures we can
give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures for
us while giving our students better content.

I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case
anyone thinks it’s a good idea.

Ron

Ronald Mitchell, Professor

Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies

University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284

rmitc...@uoregon.edu 

https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/

IEA Database Director: https://iea.uoregon.edu/

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[Roopali Phadke]

Thanks everyone for your thoughts today. I have one month left in my
environmental policy course and my challenge, which I am sure is shared, is
do I continue business as usual or lean into this crisis and throw out what
I had planned in favor of the kinds of questions Susi posed.

I am also not confident that Zoom will see us through our "regular"
schedule. On top of that, I think students will burn out after a week or
two and just stop participating if I don't make it feel relevant. Our
campus has given them all the option of taking the semester pass/fail and
most of them have done well enough to just quit and still pass.

The idea of creating smaller working groups of students who can meet
asynchronously most of the time, with virtual office hour support from me,
seems the way to go. I'd love to know if others are interested in
collectively coming up with a GEP-related COVID question *and resource*
repository.

Best,
Roopali

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:22 AM promu...@susannemoser.com <
promu...@susannemoser.com> wrote:

>
> Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning.
>
> I love the emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange of
> speakers. You could also put your budgets together and record a speaker who
> then is shared virtually.
>
> BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and logistics,
> i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT?
>
> Somewhere I saw a note about prioritization, but that is just about
> weeding out and I doubt you all feel like you had tons of fluff in your
> classes to begin with.
>
> So, my thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction, taking
> off from the "not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea I emailed about
> earlier.
>
> I mean, for a group like this one assembled on this listservs, doesn't
> this crisis raise whole new (or new once again) questions such as:
> * how does a global crisis like this affect the conditions for
> (international) political and policy cooperation?
> * how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the conditions and
> outlook for environmental policy making and implementation?
> * what does precarity mean in global environmental politics?
> * what can we learn from this health-cum-economic crisis about the weak
> spots in our globalized systems?
> * how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption?
>
> Oh, I am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and all of a
> sudden the contents of your classes gains a whole new level of immediacy
> and relevance. Students will be way more engaged because everyone's brains
> are already in this crisis. And because none of us have the answer to this,
> you may use zoom classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective
> thinking and learning events than just trying to figure out "delivery
> mechanisms."
>
> Heck, universities could once again be places for true intellectualism and
> serve society well in this difficult time.
>
> Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can imagine so many
> variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case study will be an
> utterly real teaching device for oh so many things...
>
> Susi
>
> Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos
>
>
>  Original message 
> From: Ronald Mitchell 
> Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: GEPED 
> Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought
>
> One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps
> for streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in
> guest speakers.  We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known
> subjects (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of
> developing lectures for us while giving our students better content.
>
>
>
> I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone
> thinks it’s a good idea.
>
>
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> Ronald Mitchell, Professor
>
> Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies
>
> University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
>
> rmitc...@uoregon.edu
>
> https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/
>
> IEA Database Director: https://iea.uoregon.edu/
>
>
>
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[promu...@susannemoser.com]

Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning. I love the 
emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange of speakers. You could 
also put your budgets together and record a speaker who then is shared 
virtually.BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and 
logistics, i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT? Somewhere I saw 
a note about prioritization, but that is just about weeding out and I doubt you 
all feel like you had tons of fluff in your classes to begin with.So, my 
thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction, taking off from the 
"not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea I emailed about earlier.I mean, 
for a group like this one assembled on this listservs, doesn't this crisis 
raise whole new (or new once again) questions such as:* how does a global 
crisis like this affect the conditions for (international) political and policy 
cooperation?* how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the 
conditions and outlook for environmental policy making and implementation?* 
what does precarity mean in global environmental politics?* what can we learn 
from this health-cum-economic crisis about the weak spots in our globalized 
systems?* how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption?Oh, I 
am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and all of a sudden the 
contents of your classes gains a whole new level of immediacy and relevance. 
Students will be way more engaged because everyone's brains are already in this 
crisis. And because none of us have the answer to this, you may use zoom 
classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective thinking and learning 
events than just trying to figure out "delivery mechanisms."Heck, universities 
could once again be places for true intellectualism and serve society well in 
this difficult time.Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can 
imagine so many variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case study 
will be an utterly real teaching device for oh so many things...SusiSent from 
tiny phone. Forgive typos
 Original message From: Ronald Mitchell  
Date: 3/17/20  11:31 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: GEPED  
Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought 

One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for 
streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest 
speakers.  We could each
 “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the lectures we can give in 
our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures for us while giving our 
students better content. 

 
I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks 
it’s a good idea.

 
Ron 

 
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Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies
University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
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Re: [gep-ed] just a thought

[Charles Chester]

Hi all,

Susi’s concerns on compensation are more than justified, but I can attest that 
my institutions have no viable guest lecture budget for courses. A direct 
barter system thus seems to me the most equitable and feasible way of ensuring 
that guest lecturing doesn’t become inequitable. I’ve posted a very tentative 
Google Sheet 

 showing how something like this might work. Happy to dump in the e-bin or pass 
along to anyone who has better thoughts on how to manage something like this….

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> On Mar 18, 2020, at 7:28 AM, Dana R Fisher  wrote:
> 
> Susi makes a good point for people who are brought in as experts and not 
> currently teaching. 
> 
> Perhaps those of us who are currently teaching could consider putting 
> together some sort of a cooperative though?  For example, I'm currently 
> teaching my environmental sociology class to advanced undergrads and some 
> graduate students.  I've got online classes coming up when we resume on: 
> climate change, environmental attitudes and behaviors, post materialism, the 
> environmental movement, environmental justice, food and waste, and 
> environmental stewardship.  
> 
> If anyone on the list wanted to discuss a swap on one of these topics for 
> something that I am an expert in and frequently give talks about (such as 
> environmental activism, environmental stewardship, environmental protest, 
> climate politics and echo chambers), I'd be happy to see if we can make 
> something work...
> 
> I hope everyone else is staying safe in these crazy times!
> 
> Dana
> 
> ---
> Dana R. Fisher, Ph.D.
> New Book: AMERICAN RESISTANCE  
> Director, Program for Society and the Environment
> Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
> 2112 Parren Mitchell Art-Sociology Building 
> 3834 Campus Drive
> College Park, MD  20742
> drfis...@umd.edu  / phone: 301-405-6469 
> www.drfisher.umd.edu  
> @Fisher_DanaR
> pronouns: She/Her
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:03 AM promu...@susannemoser.com 
>   > wrote:
> Hi Ron,
> As someone who often is a guest speaker, just remember that your guest 
> speakers are going through their own little hell of adjusting everything they 
> do right now. So, check your speaker budgets and consider being generous. The 
> usual couple hundred bucks doesn't even begin to cover the time a good 
> speaker spends to prepare a good talk or even just the time they spend coming 
> to your class.
> 
> So, one more layer of attitude and institutional shift here: compensate 
> people adequately for their time. Do not assume they can afford volunteer 
> time right now. And consider inviting people who are losing work and income 
> right now due to COVID19 and offer them a decent stipend to help them out. 
> 
> That way, you getting help actually helps, not burdens, someone else too.
> 
> Best to all and stay sane and healthy,
> Susi
> 
> Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos
> 
> 
>  Original message 
> From: Ronald Mitchell mailto:rmitc...@uoregon.edu>>
> Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: GEPED mailto:gep-ed@googlegroups.com>>
> Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought
> 
> One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for 
> streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest 
> speakers.  We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects 
> (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing 
> lectures for us while giving our students better content. 
> 
>  
> 
> I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone 
> thinks it’s a good idea.
> 
>  
> 
> Ron 
> 
>  
> 
> Ronald Mitchell, Professor
> 
> Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies
> 
> University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
> 
> rmitc...@uoregon.edu 
> https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/ 
> IEA Database Director: https://iea.uoregon.edu/ 
>  
> 
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Re: [gep-ed] just a thought

[Dana R Fisher]

Susi makes a good point for people who are brought in as experts and not
currently teaching.

Perhaps those of us who are currently teaching could consider putting
together some sort of a cooperative though?  For example, I'm currently
teaching my environmental sociology class to advanced undergrads and some
graduate students.  I've got online classes coming up when we resume on:
climate change, environmental attitudes and behaviors, post materialism,
the environmental movement, environmental justice, food and waste, and
environmental stewardship.

If anyone on the list wanted to discuss a swap on one of these topics for
something that I am an expert in and frequently give talks about (such as
environmental activism, environmental stewardship, environmental protest,
climate politics and echo chambers), I'd be happy to see if we can make
something work...

I hope everyone else is staying safe in these crazy times!

Dana

---
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New Book: AMERICAN RESISTANCE 
Director, Program for Society and the Environment
Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
2112 Parren Mitchell Art-Sociology Building
3834 Campus Drive
College Park, MD  20742
drfis...@umd.edu / phone: 301-405-6469
www.drfisher.umd.edu
@Fisher_DanaR
pronouns: She/Her



On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:03 AM promu...@susannemoser.com <
promu...@susannemoser.com> wrote:

> Hi Ron,
> As someone who often is a guest speaker, just remember that your guest
> speakers are going through their own little hell of adjusting everything
> they do right now. So, check your speaker budgets and consider being
> generous. The usual couple hundred bucks doesn't even begin to cover the
> time a good speaker spends to prepare a good talk or even just the time
> they spend coming to your class.
>
> So, one more layer of attitude and institutional shift here: compensate
> people adequately for their time. Do not assume they can afford volunteer
> time right now. And consider inviting people who are losing work and income
> right now due to COVID19 and offer them a decent stipend to help them out.
>
> That way, you getting help actually helps, not burdens, someone else too.
>
> Best to all and stay sane and healthy,
> Susi
>
> Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos
>
>
>  Original message 
> From: Ronald Mitchell 
> Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: GEPED 
> Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought
>
> One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps
> for streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in
> guest speakers.  We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known
> subjects (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of
> developing lectures for us while giving our students better content.
>
>
>
> I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone
> thinks it’s a good idea.
>
>
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> Ronald Mitchell, Professor
>
> Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies
>
> University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
>
> rmitc...@uoregon.edu
>
> https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/
>
> IEA Database Director: https://iea.uoregon.edu/
>
>
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[promu...@susannemoser.com]

Hi Ron,As someone who often is a guest speaker, just remember that your guest 
speakers are going through their own little hell of adjusting everything they 
do right now. So, check your speaker budgets and consider being generous. The 
usual couple hundred bucks doesn't even begin to cover the time a good speaker 
spends to prepare a good talk or even just the time they spend coming to your 
class.So, one more layer of attitude and institutional shift here: compensate 
people adequately for their time. Do not assume they can afford volunteer time 
right now. And consider inviting people who are losing work and income right 
now due to COVID19 and offer them a decent stipend to help them out. That way, 
you getting help actually helps, not burdens, someone else too.Best to all and 
stay sane and healthy,SusiSent from tiny phone. Forgive typos
 Original message From: Ronald Mitchell  
Date: 3/17/20  11:31 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: GEPED  
Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought 

One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for 
streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest 
speakers.  We could each
 “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the lectures we can give in 
our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures for us while giving our 
students better content. 

 
I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks 
it’s a good idea.

 
Ron 

 
Ronald Mitchell, Professor
Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies
University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284
rmitc...@uoregon.edu

https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/

IEA Database Director:
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