12-7-20

Hey, y'all,

Just a heads up that in just ending Monday this week I'm realizing Finals Week this semester is going to be more of a handful for me this time.  Due to the pandemic, I've been teaching all of my classes via computer live streaming from home to nursing students at my full time community college job. 

As with the rest of the world of education, there was no training for the big change from face to face teaching in person to this all digital teaching.  I've had to figure it out in real time day by day right there with students online.  It's amazing it's gone as well as it has it has, with only a couple of computer crashes all semester.

However, now I'm having to figure out how to do final exams and final papers all digitally on the fly, too.  A lot of people think that those teachers like me are working from home, that's made it easier.  Think again.  I taught face to face in classrooms in person for 40 years from my first class in 1980 until now.  Digitizing 40 years of notes from paper to offering them online is not easier, believe me.

My final grades are due after Friday Dec. 11 of this week, and I've got to figure out how those are posted digitally from home now, too.  So if my presence as CL here on DS PTSD has any brevity to it this week, please don't take it personally and please don't worry for me.  It's just that this week is a new final exams week for me.  Then, as I keep telling myself, this too shall pass.

Support welcome, and same to anyone else going through finals this week, too.