Lea Micic, the NYU Prague Wellness Counselor, went home to Belgrade for a funeral in March; since then, she hasn’t been able to come back. Serbia has had one of the strictest regimes in terms of quarantine: residents were…
ZoomLingo
The language teachers had a lot of overlapping problems and situations. I spoke to several of them, and below are observations from Tatiana Styrkas (Russian) and Czech teachers Lenka Vlasáková, Ilona Šaršoňová Florianová, and Jiří Novák. At the beginning…. Lenka:…
Klára Boudalová’s Students Shed Light Around the World
Klára Boudalová teaches a class on music education. She has made thinking about social distancing part of her syllabus by asking her students to develop online music teaching materials for educators in their local communities. Originally my students were going…
Singing the High Notes over Zoom
Karolína Berková teaches voice – this semester she has five students (including 2 men ). At the beginning of the semester she was looking forward to working on duets with the different voices of the students in the group –…
Reflections on Covid-19 by a Musician, a Father and a Teacher
by Jiří Levíček (Instructor, Aural Comprehension / Music Theory) As we all learn how to adapt to the new pandemic situation, one cannot avoid a feeling of confusion. This is due in part to an overload of information (which can…
Spring 2020: Hold on To Your Hat
by Ivana Doležalová (instructor, Central European Film / Czech Cinema & Culture) It’s not really easy to switch to online teaching – and I don’t mean because of the technical side (two months ago, I never would have believed how…
Teaching the Piano Remotely
by Alice Fiedlerová Before the coronavirus crisis struck, I had no idea what Zoom was. After we were asked to use it, we were flooded with so much information, and so many links and videos that I did not know…
Coming Up
Thursday, December 5, 6 p.m.: Guest Lecture, Trust in Media – a Fragile Affair by Dr. Alexandra Borchardt, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Friday, December 6, 3-6 p.m.: Holiday Fair Christmas traditions, t-shirt printing… bring your family! This…
Student Voices
PragueCast podcast “Walls form a truly significant part of our lives. They surround us they protect us and in many cases they have hidden meanings beyond what meets the eye.” In their latest podcast, the PragueCast team looks at Czech…
New Work Released by NYU Prague Faculty
NYU Prague composition professor and award-winning jazz musician Beata Hlavenková will launch her new album Dreams (Sně) on January 23, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. in Palác Akropolis. This is Beata’s first album to feature voice as well as instrumentals, and…