So it's five o'clock and
you know me that I'm usually very good about starting on time but we're just
gonna give another 35 seconds for people who are having trouble logging in.
Thank you so much for coming.
I miss having you tremendously in this class, you have no idea.
How weird and empty this is.
Chem 102, that's what were teaching.
It's four sections.
So normally I'd have 200 students in the classroom.
I love talking to the student more like us.
Asking them questions, waiting for answers,
feeding off of the energy student talking to each other talking to me.
Today I'm gonna go in probably 20 minutes before, because I have to
set up the conference call and then it's gonna be me alone in a room.
It's set up great and it seems that we have everything we need,
but we're only gonna know how it's gonna work when we actually try to get 200
people onto one teleconference call, and try to teach them all at once.
We're gonna try to do this as normally as we can as if you were here.
If something goes wrong, yell at me.
Of course I won't hear you because you're not here.
But you know just we'll do our best.
This is one of my first experiences taking online chemistry essentially.
And, questions can still be asked, but
it just doesn't feel the same as being in a classroom as well.
>> Welcome back, we're gonna continue our discussion of acids and bases.
So the plan for
today is to talk about how structure affects the strength of acids and bases.
And then move on talk about salt.
If you can't hear anything, you have to join the audio but stay muted.
You should be able to hear, can you hear now?
Well, of course they can't hear me.
They can't hear what I told them to do your time and I'll give you about a minute
to think through this write down some balanced equations and
we'll go from there.
This is where I'd normally walk up and down the aisle like, how is it going?
How are you doing?
It's doing great, it's good, it's nice.
I haven't seen you in a while, nice to see you.
What other options?
We're not gonna cancel the semester.
We can't put our lives on hold and one this we can do is learn.
I think learning you can do.
Sheltering in place, quarantine, we can learn and we can teach.
I think that we need to try to be normal as much as we can.
And that means learning chemistry.
What kind of solutions would have an answer of one or two in a word?
Acid, acidic very good, excellent.
I was really worried that this wasn't going to be interactive, but
you're all doing a great job.
Thank you so much.
Professor Abrams is known for being enthusiastic.
He's very loud, you know, but that's part of his teaching style, which me and
a lot of other students like and so
it's good that even though we're all spread out and he's probably talking to
a camera on like a computer or something right now, he still has that same energy.
It's simulates what it would feel like if we were to still be in PSY 109.
>> Thank you all so much for your hard work today.
Miss you all, look forward to seeing you on Thursday and
stop by office hours so we can chat.
We're all in this together.
Thank you all so much.
Have a wonderful night or morning or afternoon.
[LAUGH] I'm tired.
Good night.
Bye [MUSIC]
Okay, get some done.
>> We never know how we're gonna respond as people and as communities
until such time as we're dealt a hand like this until we have some sorta tragedy or
some sorta chaos that we have to respond to.
And I think that to our students credits and
to the administration's credit, we're all working hard to make sure that
everybody can get the best outcomes possible.
We're not going to be able to accomplish everything, but we're going to make sure
that our students are supported and we are going to get through this and
then we're gonna move forward stronger because of it.