{"id":261,"date":"2021-03-23T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport-2021\/?p=261"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:34:58","slug":"how-to-innovate-for-students-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/2021\/03\/23\/how-to-innovate-for-students-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Innovate for Students During the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samantha Dean on How to Innovate for Students During the Pandemic\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9a2tYVYyArc?start=6&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For a year now, the pandemic has impacted the ability of teachers to teach and students to learn. No matter who you are, experiencing a class on either side of a screen can be challenging. But for <strong>Samantha Dean<\/strong>, manager of the science labs in The University of Baltimore&#8217;s Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, this new reality has afforded an unusual opportunity: to innovate, interact, and to see her work reach entirely new audiences.<\/p>\n<p>With a can-do spirit that is much appreciated by UBalt faculty and students, Dean set up customized take-home lab kits, so that science classes could go on in online sessions. The pandemic &#8220;kind of turned my world upside down,&#8221; Dean says, but nowadays she sees the kits she created as a great way for students to connect\u2014both in class, and with family members and others who are sharing their living space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s spreading science way farther than I ever intended it to,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a year now, the pandemic has impacted the ability of teachers to teach and students to learn. No matter who you are, experiencing a class on either side of a screen can be challenging. But for Samantha Dean, manager of the science labs in The University of Baltimore&#8217;s Yale Gordon College of Arts and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-annual-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/annualreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}