Week 9

This must be the worst week for Trash Trivia. We had always been productive in our meetings with the LCC team. However, this week was not in person but over a Zoom meeting. We desperately tried to connect with our team, but our audio refused to work properly. We could not hear our team, and they could not hear us. We spent much of the hour yelling into the computer, hoping to get our points across. Many students lost interest and began running around the room. It brought up a lot of questions about the difference between in-person teaching and virtual teaching, which has been a topic of the class. I felt completely frustrated throughout the interaction knowing that I could not be there to keep the students engaged. I felt that physical presence could be severely underestimated by those that think virtual classrooms are the only future. And perhaps they are. But if they are going to work, they must somehow compensate for physical presence.