East Asian History at 'Berg
Blog posts journaling my way through what I do to keep my students connected and learning
And I’m done with this quarantine, too! I said yesterday that I’m more or less done with the semester, even if it is not yet done with me. We’re now 28 days into this (necessary!) rigmarole of “social distancing” (more Continue Reading …
Shhhhhht! It’s “Silent Saturday” as we call it in Dutch, or Holy Saturday before Easter. Traditionally the bells in churches don’t ring, so in Flanders they fly to Rome to pick up the chocolate Easter eggs, which they drop in Continue Reading …
“Day off” I don’t ever quite feel I get a day off during the semester; but that’s my own choice, because I prefer to spread my workload over 7 days, so I can take it a teensy bit easier during Continue Reading …
Pre-Scriptum: For blog-only readers: fortunately it turns out that yesterday’s sore throat was most likely caused by allergies, which is something novel to me. Thanks for your positive vibes! Easter Groundhog Day Christmas Who knows? Does anybody else feel like Continue Reading …
Choices choices! That title makes it sound more exciting than the choices I am faced with: if my throat is doing what I usually take as the sign of the start of a common cold, but I have not been Continue Reading …
Things that give me hope: My direst predictions for last week for our students did not come true. At least for most of my students, they did not come true. There are some with health scares in the family, or Continue Reading …
Productive? There are all sorts of things wrong with the productivity hype. “Faster! Higher! Stronger!” may be a good motto for sports and professional athletes, but I think things have really gone overboard in other professions. As we’re all stuck Continue Reading …
Thoughts but no structure yet I have Thoughts (yes, witha capital T), but they are not yet very clear. About teaching. About what this experience is asking me to do as a teacher. About how I cannot offer certainty to Continue Reading …
The new normal? There’s this three week, 21 days magic mark when a habit is supposed to have become established. Supposed to be because it turns out it’s a whole lot more complicated. That’s a shame, because today marks the Continue Reading …
Correlation and causation I wonder if I have figured out how to activate the hidden powers of William… While I was tidying up my (home) office yesterday, I thought the bottle cap from the Wednesday night’s Zoombeer would make a Continue Reading …