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For the students in
particular, so many of them

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haven't had a classroom
experience for over a year.

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And so I think for their sanity
and well-being being in person

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is good, but I think
also with learning

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and social interactions.

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We have been just
looking on our computers

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and whatnot for
handouts that I've done.

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But today, I actually
printed them out.

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And they were so
excited, they were like,

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a piece of paper in my hands!

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So there's something
tactile about being

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there in the presence
of one another

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that I think is just
deeply moving on some level

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that we weren't
even as aware of.

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It really does warm my heart
when they come in before class

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and they're chatting
with each other.

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And then we all circle up at the
start of class like we usually

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do, and we're checking in
with each other's energy

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in the space.

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I haven't seen that in a year.

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They haven't experienced
that in a year.

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To do my art, it's with people.

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I think I'm a better educator
and mentor in person.

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It's how I teach best,
it's how I think fast.

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But I am very cognizant of
those students who chose Zoom.

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And so I try to be very aware
that there are students who

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only see me on a video screen.

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But why are some of them much,
much longer maybe than others?

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Anybody on Zoom?

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The strength of the morphogenic
signal for each section.

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Yeah.

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So that's part of it.

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Working in person
and also managing

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Zoom and all of the
hybrid is really

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challenging making sure that
the students on the screen

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feel just as close as the
ones who are in the space.

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And so it's a lot of room
managing and people managing.

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But it's making them feel
more of a sense of normalcy.

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Here at UVA, this unique
interaction between faculty

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and students where--

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we go to lunches with them.

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We get coffee, and we
walk across grounds.

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And all of that is missing.

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And so having the
opportunity to try

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to create that in
ways, even with Zoom,

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I think is important.

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And we should be doing it.

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All righty.

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Awesome.

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Well, you all have
a good weekend.

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Thank you.

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Have a good weekend.

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Thank you.

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Bye.

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