Wang Yu uses the door of his bathroom as a blackboard and a mop handle as a pointer to give class via livestream.（Photo/GT）
The outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) has disrupted the lives and work of almost all Chinese people, but has also unexpectedly turned some teachers into web celebrities.
Since the gaokao (national college entrance examinations) is normally scheduled to take place in June, the coming semester will be the final uphill battle for China's high school seniors. Unfortunately, their studies have been interrupted by the outbreak of COVID-19 and their final academic term has been postponed.
Teachers at Fuzhou City No.10 Senior High School in East China's Fujian Province began live-streaming lessons from February 5 to help their gaokao students continue their studies, and they have gone viral for their creative and practical live-streaming phone holders made from household utensils.
Without professional live-streaming equipment, the teachers made good use of the items they could find at home such as electric wires, clothes hangers, selfie sticks and electric fans to create simple but practical stands for their mobile phones.
When Li Meng, a Chinese teacher from the Fuzhou high school, revealed her colleagues' various creative live-streaming equipment on the internet, netizens across the nation were overwhelmed by the teachers' dedication to their work.
According to Li, the teachers, particularly maths and science teachers, need to show students the process of solving problems, so they have to place their mobile phones in positions suitable for filming that.
"At the beginning, our students had no idea that their teachers were using such simple devices as the effect was quite good. After the students found out the truth, many were so touched that they became more attentive," Li told the Global Times.
