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my name is Shoshana Jacobs I'm a
professor in the department of
integrative biology when you finally do
open up your laptop or your desktop or
your phone to join us in the fall you're
gonna see somebody who is ready who is
confident and who has all of the tools
that they need to deliver a really good
learning experience the remote learning
tools of now are not the remote learning
tools of your parents or of you know my
younger generation when I was in school
it means that you're not just gonna be
staring at the screen the whole time
doing nothing you're essentially going
to be reaching into your screen and
reaching out for other people to come to
this like common understanding of
learning that we're going to be engaging
with in the fall not only will you see
me you'll see my co-instructor you'll
also see the course coordinator and
you're gonna get your very own TA we
have about one TA for every 50 students
we form groups of about 25 to 30 will be
available for virtual office hours it
means that you can drop in for one or
two hours during the week to ask
questions or even just to listen to
other people getting answers to their
questions we are developing for you a
virtual forest lab experience I'm gonna
take high-resolution GigaPan images and
then you're actually going to go out
into this virtual forest and we're gonna
walk you through the scientific process
the tools are there
the instructors are there and all of
that stuff comes from the people any
platform is going to be able to allow us
to transcend and still reach out to
students in a way that we've done before
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