Today marked another significant event in the coronavirus event. Illinois is now under order to "shelter in place" until April 7. While it sounds more menacing, it isn't much different than the previous requests by the governor. Today, I could have gone to Turning Pointe and worked out; tomorrow, I can't, because it's considered a "non-essential" business. I can still go to the grocery store or the pharmacy or the gas station. I can still check on family members or other that may need assistance. I can still order a pizza and pick it up at the drive thru. Heck, I can even still take Lily for a walk or go for a run outside. The change is that non-essential businesses now just cannot be open. I guess the world became just a little smaller. And one of those businesses is the school setting. So now, all school buildings are closed until April 7. The latest day we now may be returning to school is April 8, but I doubt that we go back school at all for the remainder of the year.
We did have our first e-learning committee meeting, and Tami Clarke and I completed the high school section of the e-learning plan that will be submitted to the ROE for approval. We teachers aren't starting e-learning until the first of March, so we really do have some time to work on our e-curriculum and learn some additional tools we can use to make this work. A lot of my time may be spent assisting other teachers, as I'm pretty comfortable with Google Classroom and many of the G-Suite resources. I'm still learning Google Meet, but I'm a lot farther today than I was a couple of days ago.
I don't think that I have yet spent an entire 24-hour period at home, but that may be occurring tomorrow. Let's see if I feel a bit stir crazy after tomorrow. And this week was our Spring Break...ugh. I think I can definitely say this was the craziest Spring Break week ever.
Things from today
We did have our first e-learning committee meeting, and Tami Clarke and I completed the high school section of the e-learning plan that will be submitted to the ROE for approval. We teachers aren't starting e-learning until the first of March, so we really do have some time to work on our e-curriculum and learn some additional tools we can use to make this work. A lot of my time may be spent assisting other teachers, as I'm pretty comfortable with Google Classroom and many of the G-Suite resources. I'm still learning Google Meet, but I'm a lot farther today than I was a couple of days ago.
I don't think that I have yet spent an entire 24-hour period at home, but that may be occurring tomorrow. Let's see if I feel a bit stir crazy after tomorrow. And this week was our Spring Break...ugh. I think I can definitely say this was the craziest Spring Break week ever.
Things from today
- stretch and get a work out in
- I did that and did a CardioFix workout. This is the first one of these since the weekend, and my butt muscles hurt a lot. I'm hoping tomorrow will be better.
- watch a movie - I think I might watch that foreign film that won all those academy awards - Parasite?
- I did this last night...I wasn't impressed at all. I find my self wondering how that won the best picture of the Academy Awards.
- listen to a podcast or two or three - Google Tribe, Sober Guy, nutrition guys
- Maybe tomorrow....Google Tribe might be able to help me learn more about Google Meet
- Sit in on Meet session with Mrs. Crippen and her students at Sherrard
- I accomplished this yesterday...then found out today that we aren't suppose to go live with online meetings with students...geez.
Things that I NOW think about with the coronavirus.
- Will the "worst-case-scenario" projections come true. Right now the percentage of cases that test positive ranges daily from 12-14%. Roughly 2-4% of all cases become severe. When you start plugging in the numbers, it gets scary. Earlier today, Illinois had only tested about 3,000 people.
Things I Could Do In the Future
- Polish my dress shoes and umpiring shoes.
- Get the lawn tractor ready to go - sharpen the blades.
- Organize my past pics (photo albums)
Things At School
- Pick up the trash around the grounds.
- Finish course syllabus
Things For E-Learning
- Read a new book to the students.
- Use Google Meet
- Still could do (encore sessions) training path presenter series from videotaped sessions from past years.
- Still could do short stories unit
- Would need to get novels out to students to complete those units.
- Videotape a lesson and post to classroom.
- Still do journal write (not sure about share) using Blogger
- Still have Free Read Wednesdays (e ticket/slip?)
- Still can update EnvisonMe sites
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