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 <rmitc...@uoregon.edu> Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00) To: GEPED <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/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/5e720008.1c69fb81.ac93b.3bb6SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com.
