My first class in Cultural Hermeneutics is being team taught - with a difference. The faculty member who used to team teach has moved to another seminary and so the team teaching continues across an experimental video link. It was quite exciting to feel connected to another group of students learning the same thing and sense the nervousness of the teachers as they tried to figure out how best to communicate without being able to make direct eye contact with each other, or hear everyone without it being processed through the power of those with a microphone.
The technician staff on both campuses were in communicado with each other to "add a little more light" and "turn up the sound", so that we could see and hear the faculty and students in each place more clearly.At one point we lost visual contact and it felt a bit like listening to a radio broadcast, then we lost both sight and sound and nobody knew quite what to do!
It seems fitting when discussing how our space and viewing point of the world affect our understanding, to add differing viewing locations to the material. It will be a point in case to see if the added work of not having personal contact with one half of our teaching team makes us work harder to learn better the viewpoint of "the other".
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