The New Normal / Week 01
Mar. 17th, 2020 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magnetic_poleQuestion for you: if I were to set up a new comm, say, "The Covid Coffee Corner," if therealsnape allows us to borrow her clever turn of phrase, would anyone be interested in 1) helping me host it or 2) stopping by to chat? My thought was that we could get folks to sign up to host two posts per day (or every other day?), one for Covid-19 talk and one for anything but. It would mean there would be a place for folks to check in daily and hang out for the next few weeks. (Or is this already going on somewhere?) Comments or suggestions welcome!
ETA: Let's give this a try! I've created![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
covidcoffeecorner, which will post daily at least through the end of March. Come join us there to chat!
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I'm sorry I've been so scarce lately--I've been experimenting with significantly less online time this semester, giving up Tumblr entirely and limiting my online reading time. I'm feeling very distant from fandom but miss the community and the conversations here.
I'm currently on an extended spring break, during which I need to figure how to get three courses up and running online. I'm feeling a bit cynical about the whole thing at the moment, although in an effort to stay positive, I'm going to avoid complaining and simply post two articles for the instructors and students who might be interested:
Welcome to Your Hastily Prepared Online College Course (humor from McSweeney's)
Please Do a Bad Job of Putting Your Courses Online (a polemical thought piece from an academic)
ETA: I Will Survive (guitar-accompanied parody of Gloria Gaynor's classic for academics learning to teach online)
I will, of course, not deliberately do a bad job of putting my courses online, but I'm deeply suspicious of the impact this half semester (hopefully only a half semester) will have on administrative thinking about the costs and benefits of face-to-face learning...if, indeed, our institutions survive to have this conversation in six months or so. Heaven knows I've found an amazing community here online and had powerful, life-changing conversations online with folks I've never met, but fandom is not academia, even if they overlap and mirror each other in surprising ways; we're motivated to join in and speak up for radially different reasons.
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Schools, museums, gyms, and bars/restaurants/coffee shops are all closed here. Many--a majority?--of people in my apartment building seem to be working from home. R and I have been taking a long walk every day to get some exercise and get out of the house. Despite my many worries about public health and about the economy, it's beautiful out: sunny, warm, with the first of the cherry blossoms and thousands of daffodils. I'll post some photos below the cut.
therealsnape allows us to borrow her clever turn of phrase, would anyone be interested in 1) helping me host it or 2) stopping by to chat? My thought was that we could get folks to sign up to host two posts per day (or every other day?), one for Covid-19 talk and one for anything but. It would mean there would be a place for folks to check in daily and hang out for the next few weeks. (Or is this already going on somewhere?) Comments or suggestions welcome!ETA: Let's give this a try! I've created
covidcoffeecorner, which will post daily at least through the end of March. Come join us there to chat!I'm sorry I've been so scarce lately--I've been experimenting with significantly less online time this semester, giving up Tumblr entirely and limiting my online reading time. I'm feeling very distant from fandom but miss the community and the conversations here.
I'm currently on an extended spring break, during which I need to figure how to get three courses up and running online. I'm feeling a bit cynical about the whole thing at the moment, although in an effort to stay positive, I'm going to avoid complaining and simply post two articles for the instructors and students who might be interested:
Welcome to Your Hastily Prepared Online College Course (humor from McSweeney's)
Please Do a Bad Job of Putting Your Courses Online (a polemical thought piece from an academic)
ETA: I Will Survive (guitar-accompanied parody of Gloria Gaynor's classic for academics learning to teach online)
I will, of course, not deliberately do a bad job of putting my courses online, but I'm deeply suspicious of the impact this half semester (hopefully only a half semester) will have on administrative thinking about the costs and benefits of face-to-face learning...if, indeed, our institutions survive to have this conversation in six months or so. Heaven knows I've found an amazing community here online and had powerful, life-changing conversations online with folks I've never met, but fandom is not academia, even if they overlap and mirror each other in surprising ways; we're motivated to join in and speak up for radially different reasons.
Schools, museums, gyms, and bars/restaurants/coffee shops are all closed here. Many--a majority?--of people in my apartment building seem to be working from home. R and I have been taking a long walk every day to get some exercise and get out of the house. Despite my many worries about public health and about the economy, it's beautiful out: sunny, warm, with the first of the cherry blossoms and thousands of daffodils. I'll post some photos below the cut.
