What a fluke (great headline; great story)

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Everyone Nov 1

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Online dating is a method of virus control

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COVID-19 Becoming Less Deadly

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Epilogue to Rossum’s Universal Robots

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In October, 2000, I was blogging about bobbed hair, Woolf, a CFP for interactive fiction scholarship, the hyphen in e-mail, and a book with glow-in-the-dark pages

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Cameras and Masks: Sustaining Emotional Connections with Your Students in an Age of COVID19

There are some sound pedagogical reasons for turning cameras on. Thus, I suggest sharing those reasons with the students before giving them the choice of what to do about their cameras. Explain why you are making your request. For example, being able to see students’ faces gives instructors a quick and easy way to discern whether students are finding the material engaging, at least in smaller classes. One instructor told me that “I asked students to turn their cameras on to say hi to their classmates at the beginning and end of class, and those were the best moments of the class.”

Topics in Am Lit: August Wilson — Online J-Term course starts Dec 16.

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Really enjoyed Prime Stage Theater’s video presentation of Mockingbird.

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