Did you know you can get a robot to attend your Zoom calls, meetings, and classes for you? I heard about it from my best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who uses it.

Also, we’re joined by Dr. Jon Dorbolo to dive deep on the history of teaching and learning online. Jon quickly puts us all in our place and runs circles around all of us-- except maybe Rachel and Larry-- as he provides a history lesson on teaching online over the last 30 years.  Also, remember Gopher?  And Turbo Gopher?  

On this episode of AV SuperFriends: On Topic, we’re taking a look back at an interesting last few months. Did we choose the right model microphones and projec... ok, no one really cares about that. We take a holistic look at AV, eLearning, pedagogy, and the college experience and talk through how making six years of changes in six months might affect the future learning spaces. Also, Justin comes up with the idea to charge tuition to online students based on how far they are from campus.

Marc is upset with an integrator and that immediately derails our conversation. Then, we argue about what makes a "standard" classroom. How do we determine what that should mean on our campuses? Has that changed in the last six months? (Hint: Yes... and no). Also, Jamie gets angry and manufacturers in general about equipment mounting.

Jamie is coming in hot with a problematic project. We define AVoIP, then argue about that definition. Is it better to put things on the network or on a network? And who manages all our network stuff, anyway?

We discuss our universities’ responses to COVID-19 and how those decisions might affect higher education AV design in the future.

We discuss the changing relationship between trade shows and new products, take a look at AV’s responsibility in supporting pedagogy, and dive into the mailbag to answer your questions.

We discuss dueling trade shows, doing the wrong things-- but for the right reasons, and dig through the mailbag to answer your questions.

We talk about some clever, but cheap solutions to common AV issues, dig through the mailbag, and explore the concept of the academic gig economy.