It Takes A Team

Tonight was my first ever Zoom class. My International group wanted to have access to my new card class without having to travel. Russ, my IT department, said he could make it happen. It helped to go do it in his office where all the rooms have Zoom cameras and big video monitors, lights and other dodads.

I asked my friend Deanna, a well schooled Mah Jongg shark, and technological wizard to come and be my moderator and producer. It was a god send to have her.

This was the fifth class in three days of the same material so I know it by heart, especially since I wrote it. But doing via zoom is not as fun as having a live audience. I conveyed the information, but as far as it being a good stand up routine, I would go for a live class all day long. I understand now why professors hate zoom classes.

I didn’t hate it, I just know it is more fun for the students when I can joke with them directly.

Thankfully I did not have too many technical issues. Lord knows what the class looks and sounds like recorded. It is rendering now and the people in the class with have access to the taped class as well as those people who paid for the class and couldn’t make it.

I am not about to watch it. I still have six more times to give this class, but not in this concentrated a time.

Yesterday was exhausting. I slept in until almost ten this morning trying to recover. Zoom class is easy on the body as I just sat there, but then students don’t get the body language when I slump down to convey how much I dislike the Additions Hands. I also don’t get the same questions.

Thank goodness I don’t regularly teach on zoom. I am much funnier in person.