I think that a key technology tool that we have in the world right now for collaboration is Zoom. With all of the things that have needed to be moved online, Zoom was the main way people were able to come together and communicate. As I was looking on the #MSFTEduChat hashtag, I was noticing that a lot of the pictures were people having a meeting on Zoom. This tweet, https://twitter.com/ShramkovaHelen/status/1272968400508203020 , just made me realize how necessary Zoom is during these times. On zoom, the participants are able to talk with others, chat over the messages part, share their screen for the viewers, and turn their camera on or off. If zoom was not around during Covid, learning would have been much more difficult, if not nearly impossible. So after this year, if I have realized anything about the world, it is that Zoom makes collaboration so much easier.

Julie Barron