Category: Teaching in the era of Covid19

Keeping vampires at bay I had another pretty scattered day, probably the fallout from the previous couple of days. Our writing bootcamp didn’t kick me into the right gear, and I ended up doing a 20 minute meditation in the Continue Reading …

Banana-bread miracles Let’s just say the past twenty-four hours were a bit of a whirlwind. No, I did not suddenly find out how to make Q-time (Q for Quarantine) move faster; but it was about this time last night I Continue Reading …

Unfinished business I worked on many different things, but it feels like nothing got finished. I tried to clear out my email inbox, but it’s not done yet. I got down to 42 = one page. Not too bad, I Continue Reading …

About flutes, learning, and teaching Today in a twitter conversation with Dr. Rob von Thaden, I ended up encouraging him to check out local music lessons, and learn to play the instrument he’s been dreaming off for a while now. Continue Reading …

5 weeks At least some things get done: With the decision to make week 14 optional, I feel a lot less stressed. I still have to put stuff on the course sites, and give feedback on the next stage of Continue Reading …

Green! The students gave a thumbs up to my plan for next week – I am curious how many will show up, but if none do, I am totally fine. (And not in this sense fine.) I skipped the book Continue Reading …

Pandemic pedagogy: Ultra-calendar forces adjustments An ultra-marathon means going beyond the standard 26.2 miles. Since there are no months with 32 days, I feel we’re now going into ultra-territory: I’m not used to counting days beyond 31. I’m not sure Continue Reading …

Community Over the past few weeks we’ve had a chance to meet up with our departmental colleagues a few times, and although we’re not the most social bunch in normal times (especially not in comparison with PoliSci at the other Continue Reading …

P.S. (Pre-scriptum). A couple of people have reached out in response to my request for a translation of the Fengshen yanyi; thank you so much, you saved the day, my student is extremely grateful! Unknown unknowns We were supposed to Continue Reading …

Pockets of hope Hope seems to some people so ridiculous in the current circumstances. I think their idea of hope is different from mine. For me, hope is not sitting back and waiting for good things to happen. It is Continue Reading …