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   * **Online tutorials**. If you have registered for an online tutorial, you will use Zoom to join a weekly meeting with your fellow tutorial students and your tutor. Your Zoom tutorial meeting will take place at the same day and time every week that is on your personal timetable, but the location will be at a Zoom meeting ID. It will start at 5 minutes after the hour, so log on at the top of the hour so your class can start on time.   * **Online tutorials**. If you have registered for an online tutorial, you will use Zoom to join a weekly meeting with your fellow tutorial students and your tutor. Your Zoom tutorial meeting will take place at the same day and time every week that is on your personal timetable, but the location will be at a Zoom meeting ID. It will start at 5 minutes after the hour, so log on at the top of the hour so your class can start on time.
-  * **Monday office hour with the lecturers**. Every Monday at 10 a.m. you are all invited to attend a meeting on Zoom with the lecturer of the module you’re working on. These meetings will be freeform. You can ask questions for the lecturer to answer or for your fellow students to discuss. The lecturer might ask you to work in small breakout sessions to brainstorm some ideas for the group to discuss. Or, the lecturer might extemporaneously reflect on the topic of the week and students’ questions, and expand on some of the ideas from our short video presentations in that week’s checklist. The meetings will be an hour long. Unlike office hours, you will be in a group rather than meeting one on one with the lecturer. (But see below.) Also, this is not a drop-in office hour. Please log on and join the 10 a.m. meeting by 10:05 a.m. and stay for the whole hour.+  * **Wednesday office hour with the lecturers**. Every Wednesday at 4 p.m. you are all invited to attend a meeting on Zoom with the lecturer of the module you’re working on. These meetings will be freeform. You can ask questions for the lecturer to answer or for your fellow students to discuss. The lecturer might ask you to work in small breakout sessions to brainstorm some ideas for the group to discuss. Or, the lecturer might extemporaneously reflect on the topic of the week and students’ questions, and expand on some of the ideas from our short video presentations in that week’s checklist. The meetings will be an hour long. Unlike office hours, you will be in a group rather than meeting one on one with the lecturer. (But see below.) Also, this is not a drop-in office hour. Please log on and join the 10 a.m. meeting by 10:05 a.m. and stay for the whole hour.
   * **Appointments and drop-in times with lecturers and tutors**. You are welcome to email either your tutor or the lecturers to ask for a time when you can meet one-on-one to discuss the class. Ryan will also have another online office hour during the week when students are free to drop in to discuss things (or just say hi). These can be private meetings. For instance, when you get feedback on an assignment, ask to meet with your tutor online to discuss the feedback.   * **Appointments and drop-in times with lecturers and tutors**. You are welcome to email either your tutor or the lecturers to ask for a time when you can meet one-on-one to discuss the class. Ryan will also have another online office hour during the week when students are free to drop in to discuss things (or just say hi). These can be private meetings. For instance, when you get feedback on an assignment, ask to meet with your tutor online to discuss the feedback.
  
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-Like the rest of the world, we have also all learned that there are good ways to Zoom and bad ways to Zoom. Zoom is a fascinating example of people fumbling toward a new set of implicit social norms. This is what [[https://www.thoughtco.com/anomie-definition-3026052|Durkheimian //anomie//]] must feel like (Durkheim [1893] 2014, 277). Because it is so new for most people, and we are using it under novel conditions, it’s hard to come up with rules for how to use Zoom. **Perhaps, then, the most important rule is to be sensitive to other people when you are online, and be willing to adjust when things aren’t working well.**+Like the rest of the world, we have also all learned that there are good ways to Zoom and bad ways to Zoom. Zoom is a fascinating example of people fumbling toward a new set of implicit social norms. This is what [[https://www.thoughtco.com/anomie-definition-3026052|Durkheimian anomie]] must feel like (Durkheim [1893] 2014, 277). Because it is so new for most people, and we are using it under novel conditions, it’s hard to come up with rules for how to use Zoom. **Perhaps, then, the most important rule is to be sensitive to other people when you are online, and be willing to adjust when things aren’t working well.**
  
 In tutorials, tutors and students discuss rules they can adopt that will make the class work well and will make it a positive and productive experience for everyone. We can do this for Zoom too. **It’s good to have metadiscussions—that is, discussions about discussions—in class. Zoom use is as important to discuss as respectful language and how to handle sensitive topics.** Plus, Zoom provides a really great medium for metadiscussion: chat. When you think people’s Zoom use is interfering with the class, say so in the chat or email your tutor about it. When the conversation is not flowing well, say why you think that is in the chat, and say what can be done to improve it in the chat. In tutorials, tutors and students discuss rules they can adopt that will make the class work well and will make it a positive and productive experience for everyone. We can do this for Zoom too. **It’s good to have metadiscussions—that is, discussions about discussions—in class. Zoom use is as important to discuss as respectful language and how to handle sensitive topics.** Plus, Zoom provides a really great medium for metadiscussion: chat. When you think people’s Zoom use is interfering with the class, say so in the chat or email your tutor about it. When the conversation is not flowing well, say why you think that is in the chat, and say what can be done to improve it in the chat.
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 Goffman, Erving. 1967. “On Face-Work.” In //Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior//, 1–46. New York: Doubleday. Goffman, Erving. 1967. “On Face-Work.” In //Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior//, 1–46. New York: Doubleday.
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-Quinones, Lee George. 1988. //Howard the Duck//. https://collections.mcny.org/. 
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