Finished my internship last week, and no rest for the weary. Today I'm starting to get back in the school mindset. I'm trying to get into an additional class that I wouldn't have gotten into due to my football schedule, but now I can take it. Turns out that would put me over the maximum number of credits allowed for a semester, so now I have to fill out a bunch of request forms. And I have to buy textbooks. At least I'm living at home and taking classes online this semester. Everybody on campus is quarantining right now, and they aren't even allowed to leave their rooms. Yikes.
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Calm down. I've been tamed.
I have been doing some training virtually, with much more to come in the next two weeks, on new digital tools and platforms to use for remote learning, best practices on keeping students engaged and building relationships in the virtual school world, etc. We have been inundated with information. Color me overwhelmed.
Still feeling overwhelmed. The amount of information we are trying to process in a short period of time is crazy.
On a bright note, I now know how to do bitmojis. LOL
Thanks. It will be fine once we get going.
Our schools are requiring teachers to use the same platforms and to organize our classes in a school wide consistent fashion in order to avoid student confusion. I can see how keeping track of all of the different platforms can be a real challenge for some students. You seem to have your organization skills together, but that's not the case with many.
Both of my synchronous classes today featured technological snafus by the professors, rather than the students. It's all good. We adapt well to technology, but understand that not everybody does.
Every semester I find it interesting to see how many countries are represented by my professors. This semester I have two professors from Asia, and another from Colombia. I have a feeling one of the professors I will meet tomorrow is Latino as well. In the spring, I had one from South Korea, one from China, and one from Brazil, who then went to college in Germany. I always wonder how they all end up at UConn
That's quite a diverse group of professors. Good for UConn.
I know that my students are better adept with technology than I am. They were raised with it. When something goes wrong or I can't figure something out, I have no problem asking my students how to solve the problem, not just now, but when we're in the classroom too.