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stevenpiziks) wrote2020-03-17 10:29 am
stevenpiziks) wrote2020-03-17 10:29 am
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Plague School Teaching: More Prep
When I got home, I switched on my own desktop, grabbed lunch while it was booting up, and hit Google Classroom. I've never used it before, even though it's been available to me. Now I dug in. It has a definite learning curve.
I spent all afternoon learning the ins and outs of GC and setting up a virtual classroom space for each of my classes. Then I planned out schedules. English 12 was midway through a project, so they could work on that. For my freshmen, Monday would be vocab day. Tuesday, an online reading assignment at Newsela.org . Wednesday, grammar. Thursday, a short story or other fiction reading. Friday, whatever I felt needed doing. Media literacy I set to looking up and analyzing various TV shows and movies. I decided to continue my normal practice of setting up lessons (lesson plans, materials, copies, etc.) for the entire week, but in this case, I would upload them all to GC under a time delay so each day's lesson would show up at 7:00 AM each morning (just in case any of my students are morning people).
It was at it all. Freakin'. Evening. Seriously. By 9:30, I was still setting things up. Part of this is GC's steep learning curve and the fact that you can't post the same lesson to more than one class--you have do it for each individual one. This is a serious flaw in GC, if you ask me. By 10:00 PM, I finished with the last assignment and had an hour to myself before going to bed.
Welcome to the new normal.
I spent all afternoon learning the ins and outs of GC and setting up a virtual classroom space for each of my classes. Then I planned out schedules. English 12 was midway through a project, so they could work on that. For my freshmen, Monday would be vocab day. Tuesday, an online reading assignment at Newsela.org . Wednesday, grammar. Thursday, a short story or other fiction reading. Friday, whatever I felt needed doing. Media literacy I set to looking up and analyzing various TV shows and movies. I decided to continue my normal practice of setting up lessons (lesson plans, materials, copies, etc.) for the entire week, but in this case, I would upload them all to GC under a time delay so each day's lesson would show up at 7:00 AM each morning (just in case any of my students are morning people).
It was at it all. Freakin'. Evening. Seriously. By 9:30, I was still setting things up. Part of this is GC's steep learning curve and the fact that you can't post the same lesson to more than one class--you have do it for each individual one. This is a serious flaw in GC, if you ask me. By 10:00 PM, I finished with the last assignment and had an hour to myself before going to bed.
Welcome to the new normal.