your exprince
& Write a letter to your friend telling him or her
of online class and festivals during the ongoing phase of corona
virus.
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Aarti Sarin, another English teacher of a Delhi school, feels virtual classes can never be her “cup of tea” because a lot goes into making them productive and interactive. “It’s easy to know and understand a student’s response in a physical classroom, but in Zoom classes there are a lot of drawbacks apart from the simple ones of being devoid of experiencing those “wow” moments in the class.” She explains: “I am trying to create an interactive environment in the online classes by randomly asking questions to students by taking their names as mentioned in chat. Most of them do answer but there are few who do not even respond.”
“Teaching students using Zoom is different, not difficult, in the sense that you miss the physical presence of the students in the class,” says another teacher from Delhi. She thinks the process is easy as the job roles largely remain the same and no such extra efforts are required. “Zoom schedules help manage everything and most classes seem to run as per a timetable usually followed in school.”
Choosing the video platform hasn’t been easy for all. “We started with Zoom, but switched to Google Hangouts. Zoom had more features: raising hands, whiteboard, etc. but for some reason it didn’t work out for the larger group. We switched to Google Hangouts then. It is smoother, it feels more discursive. I don’t feel shortchanged,” says Shukla.