Today I will be teaching my first class of the semester. A whole new crop of students, a whole new adventure.<\/p>\n
This is the second and a half class that I have taught online over Zoom. The fall class was entirely online, and the second half of last year’s spring class was as well.<\/p>\n
It is an odd mix of bad and good. The bad is that it is much more difficult to get to know the students well and to get a sense of how they are doing without being able to “read the room”.<\/p>\n
The good is that we definitely acquire certain superpowers online, which is particularly useful for a technical subject such as computer science. Live coding becomes really powerful when everybody is online, so it becomes more of a master class.<\/p>\n
But I would still give all that up in a heartbeat to be able to teach in person again. I am very much looking forward to the day when we can do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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