Recent updates to Zoom software enable live captions for any meeting, more controls for arranging participants on your screen, and managing breakout room activities. For more information about holding ...
Due to the Covid-19 crisis, many fitness studios and gyms are temporarily closing their doors. But a bit of good news: Many are also streaming their workouts. We’ve gathered classes and workouts you ...
When my college went online in March, the overarching education philosophy was Let’s try to keep things normal. Of course none of us knew what that would look like, including me. I’m an undergraduate ...
During class, students will often type everything a professors says. This sort of rote stenography is very, very ineffective. First, students have to focus so hard on capturing every word that they ...
Zoom was never created to be a consumer product. Nonetheless, the video-conferencing company’s accessibility made it the answer to every social situation threatened by the pandemic, from happy hours ...
I teach a first-year seminar each fall. Last year we met remotely—via Zoom during regularly scheduled class times. I wrestled about the ethics of requiring students to keep their cameras on. I decided ...
There were lots of reasons for professors to avoid synchronous instruction at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Students are scattered across different times zones, their access to computers ...
When the Covid-19 pandemic first hit, in March of 2020, colleges everywhere (including Johns Hopkins University, where I teach and conduct research) shut down and sent everyone home. Within two weeks, ...
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – A pullback from three hours of real time daily Zoom classes for a quarantined Indian Trail Intermediate School (ITIS) 6th-grade hall has at least several parents ...