Collected Item: “Virtual Campus”
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Virtual Campus
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Screenshot and photograph, University of Melbourne,
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
I first heard my university would be transitioning to online teaching through the uni magazine's Facebook page on the 16th of March, an email from the uni following soon after. This felt appropriate for a time when decisions were being made in a seemingly hectic fashion and there was still so much speculation about how worried we needed to be and what measures needed to be taken. There had been 14 new cases of COVID-19 in Victoria on that date and the total number of cases in the state was 71. The photograph is of the deserted University of Melbourne campus in September when we were into our second semester of online teaching and Victoria was in it's second wave of the pandemic. It was eerie to see this area of the campus, usually filled with students socialising on the grass, so empty. (HIST30060)
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university, studying, campus, online, deserted
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https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/about/media-centre/MediaReleases/more-covid-19-cases-confirmed-in-victoria-16-march-2020
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Post by Farrago Magazine, photo by Zoe Manoussakis
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2020-03-16