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Friday 277: starts with a 2 and ends with two 7s
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| Swamper |
What say you? |
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| JEO |
Hi guys.
Zoso, spill the beans. |
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| Lira |
Funny thing. When the outbreak reached my city, I wondered how I'd teach online. Five months have passed and I now wonder how I'll step into a physical classroom ever again.
I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't come up with a way to implanting probes inside students' head to make sure they're learning or something, the whole suite is nothing short of amazing. I'm sure "Left Behind" will be about university students being abducted by Bill Gates so they can get all necessary knowledge and polio shots. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zak McKracken
How does Teams class teaching actually work? How do you do it for a full day? We use teams at work in small groups but after 30 minutes I’m exhausted no matter if I’m a presenter or just passive. I hate it. Is it because I’m too old? |
This was my greatest worry, because I too noticed that I'd leave board meetings completely numb after just half an hour - and I'm an extrovert who always enjoyed these opportunities to talk to my colleagues.
Besides, Brazil is a very unequal country, so I had to always weigh the pros and cons of adding an extra megabyte to a students' data plan (not all have wi-fi), even with government subsidies. So, this is how I'm doing it:
- Textbooks/Material: I set up a "Class Notebook", which is just OneNote with a few add-ons. This is the spinal cord of my classes. If a student wants to know where to find all the instructions, this is all the students need to know. All the things that I'm going to explain from this point onward is something I needed to know, not them.
- The Lectures Themselves: It's all on Sway. It's all organised on OneNote and, whenever they're ready, they can read/hear my lectures on Sway.
The little video I use is all chopped up, so that you can take breaks and/or read up on what I'm talking about. The reason I chose Sway over, say, Powerpoint, is because it loads little by little, so that students on poor connections can follow along just fine.
- The Files: They're all on Sharepoint. If the students want, they can browse the folders as much as they want, but they're supposed to access everything via OneNote. I figured giving them redundant options wouldn't hurt.
Sharepoint also has a cool links feature, which I occasionally use and tell students on the general channel (so they're all notified).
- Class Attendance/Evaluation: Now, my inner libertarian is vehemently opposed to taking class attendance, but I can't know what's (not) working unless I'm keeping track of my students' progress.
By the end of each Sway lecture, there's a little quiz made on Forms, so that I can (1) see who made it to the end and (2) whether they understood the basics. And, I also use forms to design the main assignments, so evaluation is also taken care of here.
- Class Meetings: We're supposed to meet once a month so that I can check on them and see if they've got any further questions.
As much as I wanted to avoid online meetings, I realise one hour a month isn't that much of a burden, and I'm mostly doing it to check what may have gone wrong and what needs improving. Also, I record all meetings on audio in case poorer students have problems with connectivity. They can send me questions beforehand and then listen to my answers as some sort of podcast.
| quote: | Originally posted by Zak McKracken
Are these kids of today just plugged in by default? |
No, they hate it just as much as we do. Watching a 2-hour long film is one thing. Watching a 2-hour long meeting/lecture is just tiring for everyone :p
And lol @ the together mode, I'll definitely use that for the lulz one day :stongue: |
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| Omega_Blue |
hey guys. hey lira, long time no see, hope things are going well with you.
I just popped in because i had to look for an old pm from like a decade ago and just recognized a couple names.
:D |
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| Sushipunk |
Sup man!  |
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| Lira |
| Hello there, Omega! Long time no see indeed! How's everything? |
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| Omega_Blue |
holy it's stu! hey both of you, man i wish you guys congregated anywhere besides facebook lol. the only TA i still keep up with regularly is lucid. anyway
things are going well. i'm talking to a new girl after a pretty nasty breakup recently and being productive with the whole video game music thing. just waiting for a call back from work. groan
oh btw, idk how much you guys followed music production and i'm assuming this is probably more appropriate in that forum, but there's this AI that splits tracks up into isolated vocals and separate instruments. it's ing insane, that should be impossible. tbf the quality isn't fantastic but it's still really, really impressive.
try it out if you feel like it- one of the few sites i've seen that offer the service for free (you just have to wait in line if there's a queue) is ezstems.com
check it out, i made this acapella from a ing *youtube* video. acapella:
https://clyp.it/lgbmye42
original video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvfS5qNmxdw
it's pretty exciting ngl |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
holy it's stu! hey both of you, man i wish you guys congregated anywhere besides facebook lol. |
In theory, I'm on... Twitter and Instagram :p
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
things are going well. i'm talking to a new girl after a pretty nasty breakup recently and being productive with the whole video game music thing. just waiting for a call back from work. |
Noice!
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
oh btw, idk how much you guys followed music production and i'm assuming this is probably more appropriate in that forum, but there's this AI that splits tracks up into isolated vocals and separate instruments. it's ing insane, that should be impossible. tbf the quality isn't fantastic but it's still really, really impressive.
try it out if you feel like it- one of the few sites i've seen that offer the service for free (you just have to wait in line if there's a queue) is ezstems.com
check it out, i made this acapella from a ing *youtube* video. acapella:
https://clyp.it/lgbmye42
original video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvfS5qNmxdw
it's pretty exciting ngl |
Whoa, this is amazing! I use iZotope RX7 to do something similar, but that cost me an arm and a leg. Nice to know there's this alternative :)
| quote: | Originally posted by Swamper
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Jesus, I've just understood this :stongue: |
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| Omega_Blue |
yeah i use izotope rx7 for cleaning up noise from vocal takes for a few friends' podcasts. it's good software.
also i'm similarly not on twitter or insta. feelsbadman. |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Jesus, I've just understood this :stongue: |
Oh God, I had to read it twice. Awful. |
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| Teezdalien |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_Blue
yeah i use izotope rx7 for cleaning up noise from vocal takes for a few friends' podcasts. it's good software.
also i'm similarly not on twitter or insta. feelsbadman. |
Hey man, there's been some pretty interesting AI developments going on in the audio realm. Those stem sites are based on Deezer's Spleeta code base. It's also available as a Max For Live device here as donationware.
https://azuki.bandcamp.com/merch/ma...litter-spleeter
Have you seen Lyrebird? It's AI for creating realistic text-to-voice based on a voice footprint. Probably raises some ethical stuff regarding impersonation and deception, but pretty interesting.
There's also that OpenAI Jukebox that's pretty ridiculous. It trains on raw audio to generate novel audio/music based on that training. It's still got really spectrally kind of artifacts which I guess is something like the uncanny valley in this context. But I can see it being a really awesome creative tool.
Another iZoptope RX7 user, which I swear by for cleaning up recordings/field recordings. |
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