Abstract
During the dawn of the Covid Pandemic our isolation was a depressant. As teachers we were struggling with how to teach, as the popular saying explains, in an environment “that was like building an airplane as we were learning how to fly it.” As a teacher in practice, Virtually Viral Hangouts became my antidepressant. This daily online community of educators gave me the skills to teach more effectively during the pandemic and beyond. The experience taught me how to seek and forge connections with students and cyber colleagues; how to carve out a cyber environment of psychological safety to be more inclusive; how to value learning by doing. The impact of sharing ideas with others resulted in a published “Online Learning Guide” that was translated into Portuguese and adapted for use by educators in Brazil.
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Recommended Citation
McDonough, E. (2021). Connect the dots. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 13(3), 141-144. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2021-13-3-13
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