New Normal

Day 2: New Normal

Google classrooms, Google hangouts, Gmail chat, Google Drive, Hapara Dashboard.....

All educators across the county are working from home amid the global pandemic that is COVID 19. The time is 10:13pm and in less than 2 hours the entire nation will be on an official lock down. This is our 'new normal' for the next 4 weeks. 

It is only my second day working from home. I will admit that I was slightly anxious about conducting online classes specifically video classes. I tried on day one but my students did not accept the invitation (they were probably asleep - Year 13s!) I have now created an online class via Google classroom for all of my classes. It is still early days but I am sure that my students will get bored eventually and want to get online and get some work done (well that is the hope). 

My approach going into the 'new normal' is to firstly accept that I am not an online, tech savvy digital warrior and that I am going to do what I can do, and do it well. From here I will move onto video classes and I may even post a video lesson online and get the kids to watch and then I will go live with them to answer any questions - very ambitious but it is a goal that I HOPE to achieve. Underneath it all, this 'new normal' is exactly that, 'new', understanding and accepting that this is going to be our 'normal' for the next 4 weeks at least, is something that I am still finding my feet with. 

This is a very uncertain, challenging and unique time that we are living in. I hope that my learners, my family, friends, colleagues stay safe, connected and healthy during this time. 

Day 2 over and out.