Tag: Zoom

My Love/Hate Relationship

A black and white graphic of thumbs up and thumbs down.

I started re-evaluating my relationship with Zoom. It wasn’t Zoom’s fault. Zoom had been loyal and reliable. I didn’t want to leave Zoom for another platform, just another medium, like, maybe a book. As I was about to engage Zoom with the, “It’s not you, it’s me” approach, I had a realization; zoom is the only thing that gives me a connection, however tenuous, to other people.

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Teaching Creative Aging Classes Online: 1. Troubleshoot, 2. Don’t Sweat the Details

Teaching Artist, John LeoNimm leads his students through warm-ups during an online class.

“We're all doing this really new and hard thing by trying to translate in person experiences to the virtual platform,” he says, “Don't stress yourself out trying to make it perfect.  Be upfront with folks about the experiment of it and leave space for them to give feedback.”

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