One Bad Day/Dedicated to the Tuesday Kids of Massapequa
Yesterday I had my first GOOGLE MEETS. A child of ZOOM, I was unfamiliar with the buttons that surrounded my face on the screen and, as speaker, my face filled the whole screen. The whole screen. I could barely see the students I was visiting. The boxes to the right of my face were so tiny that despite the fact that I was prepared, I kept losing my train of thought. Talking only to my own face was just too disorienting, It was a mess. And I was a mess. I had never had such a terrible virtual visit. For the rest of the day, I alternated between tears and worry. Today I have three more virtual visits. If you are reading this, the visits went well. If the visits do not go well, this post will remain unpublished. This, then, is what I want to say. What I want to believe. What I tell my kids. What I once told my own students, and what I am telling myself now, three hours before my next GOOGLE MEETS. This is what I believe to be true and what I hope to prove....
