"Blended Learning" with the Yes Men
December 14, 2020 1:36 PM Subscribe
Igor Vamos of the Yes Men (previously: 1 2 3 4 5) and his students share a video of their blended learning classroom at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It gets weird. (19 minutes)
"He's... he's not on the class list."
posted by The corpse in the library at 2:52 PM on December 14, 2020
posted by The corpse in the library at 2:52 PM on December 14, 2020
My time at RPI had some psychedelic moments, but none quite this weird.
posted by OHenryPacey at 3:56 PM on December 14, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by OHenryPacey at 3:56 PM on December 14, 2020 [2 favorites]
Engaging! It will get better I am sure!
posted by Meatbomb at 4:25 PM on December 14, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Meatbomb at 4:25 PM on December 14, 2020 [1 favorite]
The lectures will be recorded, a valuable archive!
posted by Meatbomb at 4:25 PM on December 14, 2020
posted by Meatbomb at 4:25 PM on December 14, 2020
Oh, this starts off doing a fine job of showing many ways HyFlex classes can be painful. As someone teaching in 2020, I found it achingly accurate.
Then it slides into found footage horror territory. I like how the different audition characters return.
posted by doctornemo at 4:51 PM on December 14, 2020 [1 favorite]
Then it slides into found footage horror territory. I like how the different audition characters return.
posted by doctornemo at 4:51 PM on December 14, 2020 [1 favorite]
Technically it's a HyFlex class. But folks have shied away from that term.
posted by doctornemo at 4:55 PM on December 14, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by doctornemo at 4:55 PM on December 14, 2020 [1 favorite]
Oh man. Before the weirdness, the awkwardness at the start is 100% on point. I teach online and...yeah.
posted by zardoz at 1:35 AM on December 15, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by zardoz at 1:35 AM on December 15, 2020 [2 favorites]
This was captivating and brilliant. I loved it! Wish I could ID the shirtless guy with the overtone singing.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 9:10 AM on December 15, 2020
posted by Baby_Balrog at 9:10 AM on December 15, 2020
Good to see West Hall looking just as shitty as I remember it.
posted by backseatpilot at 10:04 AM on December 15, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by backseatpilot at 10:04 AM on December 15, 2020 [1 favorite]
If you think West Hall looks shitty now, you should have seen it before its extensive renovations in 2004.
posted by letourneau at 2:40 PM on December 15, 2020
posted by letourneau at 2:40 PM on December 15, 2020
As someone who spent over 200 hours on zoom in the last 11 weeks this brought me incredible joy. Geez. As a professor of ostensibly digital media I wish our class projects turned out like this. Maybe I just need to dream more sideways.
posted by Tesseractive at 2:04 PM on December 18, 2020
posted by Tesseractive at 2:04 PM on December 18, 2020
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