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.
Moving coursework online
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.
Last day of PMP Prep teaching. Grateful for a focused and interested group of students, looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight.
Sleeping in a hotel, getting ready to teach a project management workshop for the next 4 days. Grateful for weirdly warm weather, looking forward to normal winter weather coming back.
So today I’m grateful for neighbors with extra salmon and I’m looking forward to an easy drive to Boston tomorrow.
That nice feeling when the neighbor calls and says “we just cooked salmon for Alouette and now she can’t come over so do you want to have dinner with us?” The New England weather was so weirdly warm that I walked over to their house without wearing a coat.
Sad about dropping my brother off at the airport but happy that we had three fine days skiing together. I’m grateful for sibling companionship and am looking forward to skiing in Maine in 5 weeks.
Fun ski day with my brother. Grateful to dad who put us on skis 50+ years ago. Then we watched The Mandalorian. I loved it so much more than Rise of Skywalker.
Fought my way through a new Earned Value example. Even though I’m agileLisa, I teach PMP prep classes (Project Management Professional) from time to time. Didn’t like the example in our book but now I have a new one all prepped. #win
Sunday workday. The only difference from a Monday was that I slept late. It’s all worth it though, as I’ll be skiing on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
Up late with the local contra dance. But I gave my notice that I want to stop being the dance organizer this year. I’m just old and tired.