I’m also having to make arrangements to do discussions, conference with students, do tests, all online. By recording videos, students can watch them at any time, and they can also download or buffer them to get by on more limited internet connections. And some students may not have access to the high-speed internet to manage a video-stream. Some of my students are international – I have at least 12 hour time differences to contend with.
#Hoplite shield design software
You can’t really do that with a camera.įor those wondering, “why not use video-conferencing software to deliver lectures live?” Two reasons: 1) I’m not confident in the ability of some of those platforms to hold up under the staggering load they’re about to get, but more importantly 2) it’s going to be very hard for a lot of students to attend those sorts of zoom-lectures. I don’t talk much here about the art of teaching, but to deliver a good lecture on a topic, you really do need to be reading the room and feeding a bit off of the energy – seeing if students ‘get it’ or if you need to back up and explain something another way. It is, let me tell you, more than a little awkward to deliver lectures to a camera (in this case, the one on my laptop) rather than a classroom. I had actually been following the COVID-19 outbreak since January, because I’m a bit of an international news junkie, so I put together an all-online plan the week before last, talking over the details with some colleagues who had more experience with some of the software and systems.
I didn’t have time to edit last week’s Friday post to note this, but late last week, my institution went to an all-online instruction method, extending Spring break a week to give us time to convert all of our courses for online delivery and instructing students not to return to campus.
#Hoplite shield design update
This little update is going to come in two parts: a bit on how the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping my life and then an exhortation.
Let’s not let our carelessness put others at risk. If that’s not what you are here for, that’s fine you can check out but before you do, please, please read and follow the recommendations of your local health agency (the USA’s Center for Disease Control recommendations are here). Don’t worry, this Friday’s normal post (a Collections on chemical warfare and doctrine) will appear on Friday as scheduled.īut it felt irresponsible as someone with a platform – however small – not to talk about the current COVID-19 pandemic. This is going to be a bit of an unusual post, but with things moving so rapidly, it didn’t seem to make sense to wait for a break in the normal schedule.
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