Hybrid Classes at Blair Academy during the pandemic

     

The distance learning cart in use while Mr. Brandwood teaches English

For the 2020-2021 school year, Blair's faculty and students shifted to a school-wide hybrid learning model.  The model focused on enabling faculty to teach simultaneously in person and virtually. Over the summer months, our technology team deployed 60 free-standing distance learning carts to all teaching spaces and classrooms.  Each cart included a 360-degree camera, a room microphone, and speakers, plus its own desktop and webcam to give virtual students a "classroom-like" experience.

Virtual students attend live class instruction with students in the classroom