My Classroom Experience
Day 1: Opening Day
Man, it was so good to go from “theoretical” to “actual”. All the things I have been “practicing” or planning for a classroom I was able to see what actually worked and what didn’t.
Pure Positive:
Meeting the Kids
There’s nothing like teaching when it comes to meeting new people. It was even better on Zoom, honestly, because as people came on their videos, I could see their faces smiling and lighting up. I think it’s akin to those TV screens you see at NBA/WWE shows. Pure reaction. Pure fun.
Semi-Positive:
Kids have personality. That seems like obvious news, but it was fun to go into the classroom and breakout rooms and sort of get a little personality out of some of them.
Semi-Negative:
Those same breakout rooms are not able to be monitored as a whole. COME ON ZOOM!
Very Negative:
If you share a window, then close that window, Zoom just shares another window with the same executable (i.e. it showed my other chrome window when I closed the slides). It was not OK...it could have gone horrible!
Ready for day 2! Not really. I didn’t sleep enough and I’m worried about priorities, but yeah.
