Lisa Sieverts

Currently reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚

Currently reading: Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie 📚

As an online instructor, I’m excited to find and attend the “10 day Accessibility Challenge” created by Foothill College to make Canvas Learning Management System courses accessible to all. View on YouTube. #edu

And I put iPadOs 14 on the iPad Mini. It was a completely seamless installation and so far everything works just fine.

Your new site is beautiful! And I’m trying out embed to see what it looks like:

I’m going indie! I’ve started my own site, writing about tech, science, the environment, and Testing the embed

straightnofilter.com

This domain used to point to my microblog, but I moved to Wordpress as it was better-suited at this time. Still hanging out here … mistercharlie.micro.blog

Today I am grateful that somehow in this pandemic I have managed to develop a healthy and regular workout routine.

I am looking forward to my cup of tea tomorrow morning, with the cream and honey that I can have … see above.

Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn I LOVE this album, have already listened to it many times. It gives me hope for a future world where humans focus on what we have in common instead of what divides us.

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Doing yoga via Zoom has become normal. I’m happy that I bought my iMac with a VESA mount so it’s easy to move the monitor from “desk view” to “mat view.”

No, really, I’m not kidding, it’s time to get my taxes done! The reprieve in April was quite welcome, but now, suddenly, it’s less than two weeks until they are due. I’d better get on it!

I excited to hear about how well the Apple betas are going (so far) this year. I’ll hold off on any installations myself (except possibly my iPad Mini) but I find myself looking forward to Big Sur and iPadOS 14.

Did you know Scott Berkun has written a new book? How Design Makes the World It’s next on my To Read list, but I’ll read White Fragility first. 📚

Fantastic video on teaching online. Geared toward higher ed but there are nuggets here for all: www.youtube.com/watch

Closing your Apple Watch Stand Ring Every Day I used to fail to close my Stand Ring all the time, and I never understood it because I stand a lot. I finally learned the trick. You have to swing the arm that wears the watch. Without arm movement, you don’t get credit for standing.

Finished teaching my course yesterday. Seems like just yesterday that I was counting down to the launch, but that was back in January, pre-lockdown. Now I’m redesigning it for 100% online next time instead of hybrid.

I just spoke to a friend from high school. We hadn’t been in touch for over 40 years. It was a wonderful conversation, we talked for an hour and a half. I’m so glad we both made the effort to reconnect once we rediscovered each other. Facebook has its uses.

Teachers, how many of you get to the end of your course and find yourself wanting to completely revamp it for the next semester, thereby losing all of the economies of scale you’ve earned by creating great materials?LOL.

Also on team sourdough

Hey, it’s almost May and I’m almost done teaching for the year. One more webinar (we’re always in Zoom so it’s nothing new), a few more papers to grade, and then it’s over. I’ll spend time at the end of May putting the course to bed so it’s easy to pick it back up in January.

Today I’m grateful for a day of sunshine. It’s still late winter in New Hampshire. Snow on the ground yesterday morning. No daffodils blooming yet. But sunshine today. Rain for the next three days. And then perhaps warmth.

I feel very lucky to have more work in this time of coronavirus than I had before. But unfortunately, that has led to a resurgence of a repetitive stress injury in my arms. I’m experimenting with voice control on my Mac. So far it’s working surprisingly well. In the distant past, I was a Dragon user, so the various oddnesses of dictation are somewhat familiar. The struggle is re-learning how to think via my voice instead of via my fingers.

I’m grateful for paid work. My main gig disappeared and then came back in a different form. My other gig went from having a fun face-to-face teaching weekend to having 14 hours in Zoom. I’m working on making it fun. And I made sourdough popovers. Yum.

I teach online a lot. I’m good at it. But I’ve just been tasked with moving a highly interactive 3-day class weekend from face-to-face to online. I’m embracing the challenge! Here’s a resource which has good information: bocoup.com/blog/remo…

Grateful that my teaching day 1 of 4-day PMP training is complete, and truly looking forward to sleeping

Normally, I avoid conspiracy theories. But I find myself saying “I think Trump had Jamal Khashoggi and Jeffrey Epstein killed, and that Lev Parnas is talking in order to try to stay alive.”

Grateful to my last year’s self who left really good notes about how to run the first webinar for my course. Looking forward to fresh snow tomorrow and an English Country Dance.