The Moral Dilemma of Going Back: How the Pandemic Changed My Teaching
Meeting for the week of December 13, 2021 - December 19, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: The Moral Dilemma of Going Back: How the Pandemic Changed My Teaching
Speaker: Eric Mazur
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Hi Members and Guests,
Welcome to this week’s meeting of the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley.
December is Disease Prevention and Treatment Month on the Rotary calendar, recognizing this important cause. Rotarians around the world work hard to combat many diseases - including polio and malaria - through education and awareness, vaccinations and preventative measures, and clinics and treatment centers. These efforts include innovative projects that utilize technology to help expand access to healthcare and treatment, such as the telemedicine project our club has been involved with. To find out more about the many different projects that Rotarians around the world are involved with, you can visit the Rotary Showcase website:
https://map.rotary.org/en/project/pages/project_showcase.aspx
December is also a month where many people have the opportunity to spend time and celebrate with friends and family and to indulge. However, it is also a time that many people in our communities - locally and around the world - continue to face hardships and struggles. If you have the opportunity, please consider getting involved and providing support, whether it be volunteering your time or donating a gift, and embrace the chance to Serve to Change Lives.
Brett Sham
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
How About Those Drinks?!?
Captain Hook, Captain Crunch, and Captain America walk into a bar. Hook says, "Ahoy mates, I'll buy the first round. Just let me go to the bathroom real quick."
The others wait and when Hook comes back Captain America asks, "Hey Hook, how bout those drinks?"
Hook yells, "Shove it up yer stars and stripes, ya flag-waving boy scout!"
America turns to Crunch, "Why's he suddenly so irate?"
Crunch says, "Well, that's what happens when you take the P out of a pirate."
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
As we wind down 2021, perhaps we'll take time to dream about what can be for the coming year. If so, let this video, called Moonshot Thinking, get your creative gears in motion.
World of Rotary
Every week we will focus on a particular story that tells of our organization and the work of Rotarians in the world.
Rotary Champions of Change: Chris Hayter
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
This is the reason they titled this exhibit "Immersive Van Gogh". You stand in this large room with Van Gogh images rotating around the walls and on the floor. If you get a chance to see it, please go.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun, and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
Not Something New, But Something Older, Wiser, and Sad to Share...
From District 5170 Governor Richard Flanders: "On November 23, 2021, Rotary International lost a giant in Rotary as Past Rotary International President Cliff Dochterman passed away at the age of ninety-five. Cliff was a District Governor over about one-third of the clubs in our Rotary District 5170. Local Rotary Clubs were about to celebrate his 96th birthday on December 13, 2021. Let's all express our deep condolences and sympathy to Cliff’s family. Below is a link to a short tribute video of Cliff by our own Past Rotary International President and Past District Governor Rick King."
I (Shags) first met Cliff at PETS in Ohio in 1987, then again at PETS in California in 2008. He remembered me and also my first Rotary Club secretary, who was a local Rotary legend. And while a Rotarian in both D5160 and D5170, I had the great blessing of being with Cliff at several Rotary programs, some of which had PRIP Richard King and Cliff Dochterman trading Rotary jabs, jokes, and pokes. To be in a room with two hilarious Past RI Presidents was truly amazing!!
What I found rather interesting is that just a week prior to Cliff's passing, I was in Martinez, CA, where I last was with him at an event honoring something about him in Rotary (which was often!), and I mentioned that to my Rotarother, Karen, then put it on my calendar to check in with him after Thanksgiving. Too late...so don't put off what you want to do today.
May this great PRIP RIP.
Service Report
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Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! The section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
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More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Program: The Moral Dilemma of Going Back: How the Pandemic Changed My Teaching
Speaker: Eric Mazur
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Academic Dean for Biological, Chemical, and Physical Science and Engineering at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering Applied Science at Harvard University, Member of the Faculty of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Past President of the Optical Society.
Mazur is a prominent physicist known for his contributions in nanophotonics, an internationally recognized educational innovator, and a sought after speaker. In education he is widely known for his work on Peer Instruction, an interactive teaching method aimed at engaging students in the classroom and beyond. In 2014 Mazur became the inaugural recipient of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education. He has received many awards for his work in physics and in education and has founded several successful companies. Mazur has widely published in peer-reviewed journals and holds numerous patents. He has also written extensively on education and is the author of Peer Instruction: A User's Manual (Prentice Hall, 1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture classes interactively, and of the Principles and Practice of Physics (Pearson, 2015), a book that presents a groundbreaking new approach to teaching introductory calculus-based physics.
Mazur is a leading speaker on optics and on education. His motivational lectures on interactive teaching, educational technology, and assessment have inspired people around the world to change their approach to teaching.
The rapid transition to online teaching necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced can be made asynchronous and self-paced. What may have seemed like a challenge is a great opportunity to improve the quality of education.
Members and guests, please welcome Dr Eric Mazur!
To learn more about Dr Mazur's work:
http://ericmazur.com
http://mazur.harvard.edu
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
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