Virtually virtual...

Hard to teach when you don't see faces.

Very strange. Glad you laughed. My late husband, a music composition professor, taught via zoom the last five years of his life. He found it more effective than in-person teaching. What is the wisdom of teaching to a faceless audience? Or were you just experimenting?

I prefer to see the faces of the people I am addressing but I also have so much experience with only an audio connection that I am fine without the visual. Many of my students do not have zoom or FaceTime, so they are used to just audio. To those of you who are digital natives, this problem sounds ridiculous.

I meant probably sounds ridiculous. It is not a problem.

For may years I did a global team training twice a year on the phone. It was easy in that I could read my presentation and could have perfectly timed. But it was disturbing not to know if I actually had an audience after I started. Now I have had the experience of teaching on Webinar format and feel the same way. It changes the energy, removes a dynamic that makes teaching fun and truly effective. As with any performance art, the ability to play off the audience makes creates a stickiness that is an important part of the process.

Further thoughts: It's sort of like having one of those midnight drive time talk shows. At least they can ask questions by chat. Appreciate that not the whole world is digitized.