#uczoom

The graduating classes of 2020 - and all future graduates of this historic adversity - will forever be exemplars of perseverance, determination, & courage Manager: "You seem qualified but have you ever worked through adversity or unforeseen challenges & had to learn entirely new ways to do things overnight to survive?" Future Manager: "I earned my degree during #COVID."

https://pics.myboothpic.co/virtual/capture/7pQa6 #UCSD #TritonsWearMasks

Be sure to get your #FluShot (if for no other year, definitely THIS year). - #Vaccinations are required for all #UCzoom personnel (that includes #UCSD) by November 1st 🔱 - Four studies (1 PrePrint, 3 peer-reviewed) have found that receiving the influenza vaccine is protective against #COViD (Angel Vila-Corcoles et al., 2020; Marín‐Hernández et al., 2020; Ziedman et al., 2020), and one found that it's protective even if patients received it AFTER being infected with COViD (Fink et al., 2020 - the #PrePrint). #TritonsWearMasks 😷 (at Revelle College) https://www.instagram.com/p/CETCUnhjbex/?igshid=dz2u9yvx98s4

https://medium.com/@jarryd.willis/covid-diary-a-non-remote-observational-study-of-mask-adherence-at-ucsd-aa6b685f81e8

My lab's #diversity is exceeded only by its #inclusion. There has never been a quarter like this one & yall not only persevered but thrived: submitting 3 articles for peer-review since March 20th, #UCzoom-ing twice a week for meetings, & handling #COViD 🦋 #TritonPride #UCSD 🔱 (at John Muir College) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBwGeWrgsLq/?igshid=8voawjfsv0fo

The first 3 graphs are from data collected from #UCSD #Psychology students halfway through the Spring 2020 Quarter while taking courses via #UCzoom (~400 students in my class). Synopsis: Location matters. The 4th image shows 2 graphs that two women in my Statistics/ #SPSS course at Mesa College submitted as part of their class project in December 2019. Yes... 2019, as though they could predict the immediate future relevance of their research question: does location matter when it comes to studying & distraction? Granted, they only had 21 subjects (13 women), they found that studying was generally less efficacious & was more vulnerable to distractions when at home. 📵 These home vs campus findings reflect past research. Among Black students, those who live on campus in residence halls have significantly higher GPAs than those living at home (Turley & Wodtke, 2010). Among 1st-Generation & underrepresented students, there is a "strong positive association between distance from home and students’ odds of completing a bachelor’s degree" (Garza & Fullerton, 2018). In short, this situation is affecting students in different ways based on their background. Content difficulty may need to be adjusted because this is a unique hardship for everyone. It doesn't mean making a course into an easy pass; it just means that some student-centered pedagogical adaptations borne from situational-awareness would suggest that our quizzes/assignments/exams shouldn't cover every tome & epistle that we would otherwise test them on if we were all gathered within one of the many bastions of erudition on our campuses. Doubtless the restructuring of end of quarter assessments/exams will entail no small amount of intellectual labor, though it is a modest - albeit necessary - first step as we prepare for 3 hours of content during summer session. To repeat: summer lectures are 😶3 hours😶in length & these are the current statistics with 1 hour sessions. I’ll be among the #Synchronous professors this summer; obviously providing the #asynchronous recordings as well as part of #Hybridization. Also, this was the first time i won #Twitter all year 😅 #TeacherLife (at UC San Diego) https://www.instagram.com/p/CArT2NPAfwL/?igshid=1ohxn12akw304

First ever #ZoomBirthday - definitely one of the best, & memorable for obvious reasons (not to mention my birthday will be stored in the cloud server for 30 days). Though the specter of #COVID continues to loom over everything, I’m thankful that from the safety of my coronafree office I didn’t have to wear my mask as i magically blew out my 33rd candle via Zoom. (Please note: I’m still wearing a mask when i enter the human terrain outside my place, car, & office. As previously stated, if your masculinity is so thin that it can be felled by a mask, then your mask-ulinity is the mask you’re wearing. Either way you’re wearing a mask.) 😷 Sadly I’m still not allowed to work in my office outside of MWF, so I’m using tomorrow as my vacation day to have nothing but videogames from sunrise to sunset 💃🏻 And Netflix/Prime... either way I’ll be looking at a screen 💁🏻‍♀️ ♊️ 32 was the best year in years. It’ll be hard for 33 to top that, but if by next May I’m in a boba cafe grading paper exams, compiling iClicker grades, & entering paper scantrons that students handed to me for my birthday, then it will have been an excellent year 😺 Until then it’s #UCzoom 👩🏻‍💻 #QuarantineBookClub #GamersVScovid #GamerGirl 🎮 #Quarantinian #introvert privilege #iNTJ #Gemini (at Quarantine 2020) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAolUTFADT3/?igshid=toc6zf37q55q

Worrying whether or not you’ve been infected or might die is hardly an environment conducive to learning 🙇🏻‍♀️