(Actually, it's neither, it's a virus.)
But the downside of this bug is looking pretty sunny for me.
One of our campuses closed about an hour ago. Sometime around about next week, I'm expecting the rest of our campuses to follow suit. In the meantime, I'm doing trial runs with online office hours this weekend, preparing to move all instruction online as soon as necessary.
The software's sweet. I'm a tablet professor anyway, using local wi-fi to get to the classroom projectors, so it's just a question of getting my screen at home in front of them and providing interactivity with my students. I won't be able to see their faces, (unless they choose to share cams), but they can speak or chat at me, and the lectures can be recorded for asynchronous viewing.
I don't have to dress up. I don't have to commute.
I can live with this.
But I'm still going to miss their faces.
Feel free to share how COV-19 is affecting your lives, too.
But the downside of this bug is looking pretty sunny for me.
One of our campuses closed about an hour ago. Sometime around about next week, I'm expecting the rest of our campuses to follow suit. In the meantime, I'm doing trial runs with online office hours this weekend, preparing to move all instruction online as soon as necessary.
The software's sweet. I'm a tablet professor anyway, using local wi-fi to get to the classroom projectors, so it's just a question of getting my screen at home in front of them and providing interactivity with my students. I won't be able to see their faces, (unless they choose to share cams), but they can speak or chat at me, and the lectures can be recorded for asynchronous viewing.
I don't have to dress up. I don't have to commute.
I can live with this.
But I'm still going to miss their faces.
Feel free to share how COV-19 is affecting your lives, too.
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