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S4: E97 What I Learned While Creating Virtual Lesson Plans

Season Four
Episode 97
What I Learned While Creating Virtual Lesson Plans

  At the time I am recording this we are on day three of virtual teaching.  We've had a soft start with Zoom calls with advisory students and preparing for the launch of our full schedule of classes today.  I feel as though I've grown in extraordinary ways outside of what I would have felt if I'd returned to the classroom as usual after spring break.

Three things I have taken away from the planning I have done for online teaching:

1) I can do hard things and make the best of them

*Screencast-omatic
*Juggling different schedules for the girls while trying to feed them (oven on a little long?)
*Making a list of all the things I've learned

2) You're not failing if you're trying

*There's a lot of grace needed for ourselves and for others

3) We will be better for this

I've used so many online tools that I had wanted to learn more about, but didn't have the time to spend on them.  Now it's been almost a forced meet-cute of me and these new online tools.  They've come into my life and I am getting more proficient at them as we go along.
*Start with one tool (I began with screencast-omatic on Schoology)

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