We’re done with our first day of class for the upper-level students at William and Mary. We’re teaching two courses this semester, the usual Eminent Domain and Property Rights, but also Land Use Law. We were set to begin a semester of “hybrid” instruction (some students in the classroom, with distancing in place, while others attend remotely). But late last week, due to some administrative difficulties unrelated to the law school, we had to postpone the in-person part until next week.
So we did our first two classes today via Zoom. It went as well as you might expect. We’ve had to make some adjustments to the usual law classroom, but so far, everyone is taking it in stride and adapting well. We expect to do the same and adjust and readjust as the semester progresses.
What you’re looking at above is our set-up, a remote “podium” on which we raise our laptop camera up to eye-level so the students are not looking at the underside of our chin the entire time. What books do you use for your remote podium?