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Happy Friday! To my fellow academics: please stop reflexively recording meetings & events. It's one of the terrible responses that's emerged this year associated with the rise in usage of video conferencing software. Storage takes $$$, and, yes, it has an environmental cost.
It also has, I would argue, unintended consequences for pedagogy. Just like everyone else, I've encountered the wall of camera-off students, as well as the quieter-than-ever classroom. These reactions seem pretty reasonable to me.
On the one hand, 2020 is a burning stress-dumpster floating down a river of sewage. On the other, having my every word recorded while trying to learn is deeply unpleasant. It's why I likewise hate the "was that panel recorded?" question about conferences, conventions, etc.
This thread is, to be clear, not about my employer or any org in particular. It's about the capture of experience. Just as I hate vendors gathering stats about my reading while I'm reading, I hate orgs gathering info about my learning process while I learn.
This isn't a "some things shouldn't be recorded" suggestion. It's a "think carefully before recording at all" suggestion.
