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Three things changed recently that seemed worth telling you about. In this post, I share about Todays Meet closing down, my hesitation to recommend Airmail anymore, and a bit about the Teaching in Higher Ed website redesign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Occasionally, I find one of my blog posts getting out of date sooner than I had hoped. About a day after I finished writing about open-ended poll questions, I saw a post by Richard Byrne announcing that Todays Meet is shutting down<\/a>. Each time Stephen Brookfield has come on the podcast<\/a>, he has mentioned his use of Todays Meet, whether that is to:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Fortunately, Richard Byrne provided some alternatives that we can use, if we want to have a backchannel in our teaching:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n TodaysMeet Is Shutting Down – Six Alternatives to Try<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n I don't typically use a dedicated backchannel tool in my teaching, opting instead to use a polling service (like PollEverywhere<\/a>) that has a backchannel as just many of the ways to engage. I also make use of presentation tools (like Glisser<\/a>) to present slides, engage with polls, and use Twitter as a backchannel from within their web app.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In episode #201 on Frictionless Systems, I recommended Airmail as an alternative email client on the Mac. I suppose to be more specific, I recommended that people look into what's available as an alternate to the standard email client on their computers and then mentioned that I had been using Airmail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I had too many problems with emails that I would delete in Airmail that then would immediately come back into the inbox. I thought it was just me, but then I saw on the Mac Power Users Facebook group<\/a> that others were experiencing the same issue. I decided to go back to the built in email client on the Mac. However, quite a few people on the Mac Power Users group said that they have had none of those same issues with Airmail using an application called Postbox<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I haven't had the opportunity to try Postbox just yet, as I'm wrapping up my doctoral class today and just had all the graduation-related events for my undergraduates this week. It's like my new toy, waiting on my desktop for me to have some time to play with it. I absolutely miss being able to read, reply to, and move emails without ever having my fingers leave the keyboard. Hopefully I will have more to report on future episodes of Teaching in Higher Ed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The website redesign went live in April. The goal had been to have a home for the new episode transcripts, but it turned into much more than that. Some parts of the site you may want to visit include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nTodays Meet Shut Down<\/span><\/h1>\n
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The Teaching in Higher Ed Website Redesign Rolled Out<\/span><\/h1>\n
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