COVID 19 - The Coronavirus: Virtual School Wrap-Up

Thursday was the last day of online classes. All the content had been introduced, so it was more of a "Get help if you need it and turn stuff in!"

This meme is how I envisioned it....

...., but the tidal wave was really a trickle. I still have kids who haven't figured out how to check their grades. I've made them do it in class (when we actually had school) and I've been sending out reminders for when I get questions I already wrote the answer down three weeks ago.

That's not to say there haven't been some good questions. I've gotten rather proficient about drawing online and talking at the same time to explain things.

By the end of the week, the kids who were on it were done and the kids who hadn't been off it were still off doing whatever it was they're doing. 

My online classes were a bit of a joke. I only had a few kids show up and they were the ones who were already done!

Go figure the last class was when I discovered one of the platforms we used had a multi-user whiteboard.

We doodled for math! Out of six classes, I had two kids show up in two of them (my honors sections). Those kids were already done.

I spent my last office hours in the barn. Carrie called me down to help. The vet had been running late and Carrie had volunteered to look at a house with Laura (a neighbor's actually!).

Pro tip: Pulling on the horses tail can make them shift their weight onto the foot the vet is trying to x-ray.

Life tip: A good poop can relax anyone. In Ernie's case, it made him hold still long enough for a difficult angle!

I had maybe 2 kids shows up all virtual school during the period I offered to help. The day I expected none I had 2 (Doubled my attendance!). Both students were done with my class (and only one had any questions), so they hung out for a while and watched the vet work.

I had to put the foot down and help position Ernie after Carrie and Laura left!

Both students are interested in medicine, so I think they had fun.

It was a unique way to end online teaching.

The one drawback: I couldn't take any video while streaming my class. Poor Maddy is a hot itchy mess, but she was scratching her neck on a door in a way that looked like she was moving and grooving to a song! The student laughed and I really wanted a video to make a gif, but alas. It was drop the student from the call or drop getting a video.

Roughly 70% of my students finished by this point (out of 106). There were still 8 or 9 that hadn't started. The rest? I was hoping they'd do work over the weekend. Otherwise, I'd get to spend part of next week making phone calls.