East Asian history courses at Muhlenberg
Portal for courses on Chinese, Korean and Japanese history
Blog posts journaling my way through what I do to keep my students connected and learning
It sucks. But we’ll make it work. Hm. Nobody pointed out the fact that I was running a day ahead of everyone’s schedule with yesterday’s update. So here is 23 March for a second time. I promised I’d explain how Continue Reading …
And on the seventh day, she rested Actually, she didn’t. But she’s too tired and it’s too late to tell you all about it now, more tomorrow. Let’s just say: transposing activities from the classroom to an online environment takes Continue Reading …
New routines After about a week of frantically prepping for the transition to remote learning, my house looked like a tip. I’ve got a small 2-bedroom flat. My neighbours manage to fit an entire family in their flats on the Continue Reading …
Stop – look – cross [to the kind side] Stop before you judge the student who did not show up to the Zoom session. One had technical issues earlier this week. No less than three have contacted me they have Continue Reading …
My eyes! 👀 OMG I am exhausted. I have been staring at a screen far more than usual. Two sessions with students, and although I keep them to 45 mins instead of 75 mins, I have been sitting at the Continue Reading …
Today will be a short post, I want to get some more sleep in than I have over the past few days. Lessons learned Nr. 1: Push the record button If you say you will make Zoom sessions available for Continue Reading …
I’m about to run out of spoons. I eat a lot of things with spoons, more than with knife and fork, it seems. All I see in my dishwasher are bowls and spoons, so I’ll have to wash up a Continue Reading …
Today was the first day of cancelled classes so we can prepare for going into remote learning. In the morning I caught up on some of Zoom’s features using our ITDL training from earlier this month, and then I set Continue Reading …
