With kindness and calm, biologist Li Tao adapts classes and labs to online format
“I treat the students like family and each time they make progress, I feel like a proud parent,” says biologist Li Tao about the transition to online teaching.
Category: Faculty
Environmental geographer Michelle Shuey empowers students during pandemic
Michelle Shuey wants to be sure her students don’t feel depressed from all the things that are happening in the world these days: stay focused, feel empowered.
Aerial dancer Annie Bunker has figured out how to teach, perform, be with family, and farm, all during a pandemic
Annie Bunker is a member of the dance faculty at UH Hilo and Hawai‘i Community College. Faced with adapting her personal and professional life to a pandemic, she juggles teaching, performing, family life, and farming with the extraordinary grace and skill of one who has mastered complex movement.
Marianne Takamiya says astronomy lends itself well to online instruction
Marianne Takamiya’s expansive style of teaching has allowed her to keep communication channels open with students in order to continue delivering stellar astronomy instruction despite restrictive covid guidelines.
Weekly Newsletter for Faculty & Staff, Oct. 27, 2020
Featured in this week’s issue of Ha‘ilono o UH Hilo (News of UH Hilo): Michael Taylor, John Burns, Kekoa Harman, Efrin Ruiz, more!
Kekoa Harman finds richness in teaching ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i online
Associate Professor Kekoa Harman says students being at home with family while doing online learning of the Hawaiian language gives them more familial context, fostering their abilities to bond with the language in new ways.
Professor Efren Ruiz believes online teaching strategies strengthen mathematics education
Prof. Ruiz is using the online transition to strengthen mathematics education at UH Hilo, not only for the remainder of the pandemic but for the future return to face-to-face instruction as well.
UH Hilo students take online finance class with classmates located in Asia and North America
The classes are taught through an online method where students located in different countries learn together through a virtual yet interactive structure.
