Seven students did their final personal history presentations today, and it was just lovely — smart and thoughtful and honest and provocative. Nice to be reminded that an online class can also be awesome sometimes. Proud of them.
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I want to note, for students and parents everywhere, that what you’re seeing of hastily-converted-to-online teaching now is NOTHING like what online instruction would look like in the fall semester. If teachers have a summer to plan (would be nice to be compensated for that extra work, but anyway), and can thoughtfully structure our classes
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Last week of classes. Not gonna lie — can’t wait for this semester to be over. I miss my students’ bright faces and interesting conversations, but switching to a poor simulacrum of online teaching mid-stream has been a tremendous strain all around, especially when my own executive functioning skills are pandemic-impaired. But on the plus
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I had to go get myself an Opening Day bagel at The Daly Bagel, 130 Chicago Ave. Woot! Go, Amanda Daly! If you didn’t manage to pre-order, locals will be glad to know that they can walk in (between 8 and 2) and pick up a fresh, delicious bagel, chewable and luscious. Please wear a mask to
I feel like this is a dense question, but let me just ask — if you wanted to share a PowerPoint with your class electronically, how would you do that? Is there a way to upload it to Blackboard? Should I have students attach the PP file to an e-mail to the class? Is there
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A quick safety note. One of the people who ordered a mask from me requested two different fabrics for front and back. That’s fine — see pictured in third mask. I’m guessing she asked for that to make it reversible, to coordinate with different clothes. The problem with that is that it’s safer if you
Warning: serious navel-gazing follows. Everyone who has to go in to work at essential jobs at the moment, putting themselves at risk, and also everyone who was laid off and is worried about finding work, really just everyone, please feel free to skip this. *** I’m six weeks into shelter-in-place. That’s a bit longer than
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Made bias tape by hand tonight, to make fabric ties for ICU nurse masks. Oof — tedious and time-consuming. Feeling grateful for the makers who have switched their 3D printers to cranking out bias tape makers cheaply, selling them on Etsy. So many people doing their part, in unexpected ways.
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Really pleased to note that my mutual aid group is merging with another mutual aid group — we’ve both been working, but they’ve done all the things I haven’t had time to do yet, so this is super-exciting to me. . More very soon, including how locals can get involved with it.
Weird moments of sadness ambush you, moments you don’t even want to indulge. Yesterday, I cleaned up the backyard firepit area, which has enough seating for eight or so. We were just starting to get to the age when Kavi might have friends over to hang out back there, and I had imagined keeping an
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