Canvas Insider Chris Powell

A while back, I had made a video showing teachers of Canvas courses the student's perspective when it came to Peer Review assignments. I've seen an increase in questions from my faculty clients about Peer Reviews in their courses, so I wanted to make an updated video sharing the different types of Peer Reviews available… in my usual one-take, cheeky perspective.
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-CP


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With a great deal of attention focused on student and teacher mental health, I wanted to make mention of an oft-overlooked area of a school, college, or university who is directly responsible for maintaining a successful work environment: support staff.
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-Chris


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In this audiogram, I wanted to share an exploration about tech support based on a moment in time from a Saturday afternoon at Costco.

Here is the transcript if you wish to read along, or not listen:
Hello Canvas Insiders! I wanted to share a story with you, a moment in time that happened to me recently that relates to my career in technology support. It's a moment in time that I unknowingly became someone whom I have referred to in the past in an allegory or a parable pertaining to my work in helping clients fix their computer problems. So check this out:
This past weekend I willingly chose to do something I normally, in my right mind, would NOT do. I went to Costco on a Saturday afternoon. I only had three things on my list: Vitamin C pills, Vitamin E pills, and multi-vitamin pills. Three bottles. No need for a big shopping cart, bang-bang see you later quick run into Costco. Now as most of us are aware of, there is no such thing as a quick visit to Costco. But let's get back to the story.
I park what seemed to be a quarter-mile away from the main entrance, which is the usual for a Saturday afternoon at our favorite behemoth warehouse location. Flashed my member card to the welcome person at the entrance, navigated myself through carts and carts of people wandering about the aisles, acquired my three vitamin pill bottles, and made my way to the checkout lines. Now here's where the story gets exciting.
With my 6-foot-3 height, I surveyed the 10-plus checkout stands with long lines of carts. Not for me. I saw on my right that there was four banks of self-checkout scanners. I noticed one was not being used. I made my way to the open self-checkout scanner space. I scanned my Costco membership card, beep, and scanned the three vitamin pil bottles, beep, beep, beep. I quickly tapped the Pay now button on the screen, and I sensed a person coming alongside of me and saying, "Sir, are you aware that there is a line for the self-checkout area?" As I pulled my payment card out of my jeans, I said, "Nope!" And the young man continued to lecture me, "For the future, we have a line for the self-checkout and there are people in line now."
Now, let's pause here for a moment, Canvas Insiders. one of my triggers in life is social embarrassment or social shame. Had it a lot while growing up as a shy, quiet loner without many friends in school, and I've done a lot of work to curate a universe where I am not likely to experience embarrassment or shame. In a split-second, I am now feeling embarrassed as my mind, my inner narrative, is telling me, as I'm tapping my credit card against the payment terminal, that there are a lot of people looking at me with derision, contempt, anger, you name it. I also have someone in a position of authority, so to speak, admonishing me for something I was unaware of. In my surveying of the Costco cattle herd of shopping cart, flatbed carts, and a ton of people gathered around the checkout areas, I did not see one instance of a sign for a checkout line, one orange traffic cone guiding shoppers to the way to check out. From my perspective, everyone was at least than 10-feet away from the self-checkout scanners, there was an open spot, and I took it.
Now here's my confession, Canvas Insiders. As I am replaying this moment in time back in my mindspace, I realize my triggered response of public embarrassment or shame, that split-second moment where my anxiety was telling me that that young staff person was going to make me cancel my order and go to the back of the line of shoppers, I did not respond nicely to his what-I-consider passive-aggressive informing me of established lines for checkout. As he said in a fairly parental-admonishing tone, "For the future, we have a line for the self-checkout and there are people in line now." I took my printed receipt, held it up to him and said, "three items, 42 seconds." And I left to exit the store. The young man then raised the stakes when he said, "Sir, I need to see y

In this audiogram, I wanted. to raise awareness of a new era, or epoch, we have entered into as a society. And how, at the start of a new school year, we can become better communicators.


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Instructure’s annual conference was another huge success, and I wanted to make mention of a couple of items (and people) who made an impact on me during the big event. Plus… I have something up my sleeve for the month of August. All that and more in my latest Unscripted Audiogram.
Thanks very taking the time to listen. Don’t forget to drop me a line at canvasinsider@protonmail.com if you have any thoughts or comments for me. I do appreciate your perspective!
-Chris


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