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Teaching in the Void

My experience teaching through Zoom

Elizabeth Wilks
2 min readJun 25, 2021

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Small black boxes fill my screen. Each one is labeled with a name in white lettering, but give no other identifying features. The microphone symbol in the bottom left corner has a bright red slash through it clearly indicating the lack of participation I should expect. I have no way to know what is on the other side of the screen. Are they female? Male? Old? Young?

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Elizabeth Wilks

When she’s not writing at the coffee shop, cuddling with her cat, or watching bad reality television, you can find her traveling to new and familiar places.