{"id":8191,"date":"2021-02-14T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T15:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=8191"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:22:30","slug":"2021ambassador-campagne","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/2021ambassador-campagne\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2021: Dutchess – Jean-Michel Campagne"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jean-Michel Campagne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jean-Michel Campagne, Ph.D.<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Dutchess Community College.\u00a0 Dr. Campagne earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, studying natural product discovery, structure elucidation, and synthesis in Dr. Albert T. Sneden\u2019s group.\u00a0 After graduate school, he worked at the United States Patent Office and then at the Food and Drug Administration.\u00a0 After a number of years outside academia, he had his \u201ca-ha moment\u201d and realized he had ignored his passion: teaching.\u00a0 He and his wife, also a teacher, moved to New England to teach and he has happily never looked back.<\/span><\/p>\n

Online teaching is new to me \u2013 and I find it exciting.\u00a0 It reminds me of my graduate school days where I was thrilled with the creative problem-solving required to succeed in the laboratory.\u00a0 That said, what I learned then is what I feel is also applying now:\u00a0 keeping it simple.\u00a0 Whether it be guidance, notes, directions, deadlines, synchronous meetings, or online videos, keeping it simple is proving key.\u00a0 This is not to be confused with lowering academic expectations or not being fully invested in students\u2019 learning — that line is being held and my time invested has actually substantially increased.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In this pandemic-driven remote world I have been shoved into, I, as others, have found that students need and thrive with an instructor\u2019s presence.\u00a0 That presence lets them know someone knows and cares about them and is interested in them succeeding.\u00a0 So that\u2019s my challenge:\u00a0 how to be present in an online experience that I am trying to keep simple while also maintaining college expectations?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

To be clear, I don\u2019t have all the answers and I will undoubtedly make mistakes to learn from.\u00a0 And that is all exciting to me \u2013 just like graduate school research.\u00a0 If I were to say I had something of a thesis, it is this:\u00a0 There\u2019s Something To YouTube Gaming Videos.\u00a0 How come a student <\/span>can\u2019t<\/span> watch a lecture video for more than 15 minutes but <\/span>can<\/span> watch a gaming video of <\/span>someone else<\/span> playing a video game for hours?\u00a0 Obviously, learning college-level chemistry doesn\u2019t fit neatly into the gaming video format.\u00a0 But I believe there are elements of how gaming videos are produced that could help me connect with students, increase attention time, and give me a presence.\u00a0 This includes transitions, visual and sound effects, use of cameras, gaming activities, and screen layout.\u00a0 So that\u2019s what I\u2019m currently trying to fold in to my synchronous online teaching.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean-Michel Campagne, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Dutchess Community College.\u00a0 Dr. Campagne earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, studying natural product discovery, structure elucidation, and synthesis in Dr. Albert T. Sneden\u2019s group.\u00a0 After graduate school, he worked at the United States Patent Office and then at the Food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8277,"featured_media":0,"parent":2473,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8267,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8191\/revisions\/8267"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}