Monthly Archives: March 2020

It’s Monday, slither down the greasy pipe, So far so good no one saw you… Things feel disoriented. Sometimes things are fine, sometimes this is very weird. I hate that I cannot have vague plans for what happens a couple … Continue reading →

Thursday. It is very quiet at work. The lunch restaurant in the building across where I usually get my coffee and a breakfast sandwich has closed. No use now that no students are coming.  On the bus this morning, we … Continue reading →

Premiere on-line seminar! The first pass worked using Conferences on Canvas (which uses something called Big Blue Button). Took a bit before I got my microphone working, but after that we could discuss the two papers I have assigned via … Continue reading →

I’m getting more anxious and overwhelmed, but I keep going. This is my feeling thermometer. Anxious, a bit sad. It will  change soon.

Tuesday at 11. The government went out with info that all students at University and High-school level should stay home, and do distance teaching. Us teachers have to then create these courses. Glad I had a bit of startup there … Continue reading →

Overnight, the university decided that anybody that wants to go to on-line teaching can do so.  This is good, because it gives us some choices. When the line was “business as usual” we couldn’t really break rank. (Ok, so some … Continue reading →

It is still in flux. I did a little bit more learning Canvas, and set up the work that the students need to do to get credit. We are emptier than usual. I feel like in the near future there … Continue reading →

We have our hindsight problem, and come to think about it, it isn’t 20/20 but suffers from serious tunnel vision when you only see what worked or that which failed catastrophically. Looking ahead feels like staring into the darkness at … Continue reading →

I had told the student who would have traveled 2-3 hours to be in my doctoral course that I didn’t do anything on-line at this time, but that lectures were optional. Last week I e-mailed all of them, even the … Continue reading →