I should be so lucky... NOT!

We have met before here, haven't we?
There was also this https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22356306
Science suggests that there are unusual things happening in the brains of power-holders. Decades of study have shown that the psychology and physiology of powerful people are notably different from those of average people — down to the architecture of the brain's prefrontal cortex, and the way the heart pumps blood.
bigPretentious Hipster wrote: ↑March 11th, 2020, 9:37 pmYea this is hell for me. I can't even begin to imagine how it is for those two.
Yeah, there's a tremendous amount of free/cheap shit available if you know where to look. Like troll around college campuses when classes end for the summer. When I moved out of my grad school apartment (in a lower income area), there was a ton of stuff I didn't want to take with me, so I put it all in the laundry room and said "free to a good home." Nothing lasted more than about an hour.mightysparks wrote: ↑March 11th, 2020, 10:59 pm Those people sound insane. Also, looking on Facebook marketplace or Gumtree (or whatever equivalent you have) for free and cheap furniture is worth doing if you can’t afford anything new right now. When we moved out, the only things we had were things for our bedrooms and we furnished the rest of our house with stuff given to us from friends of friends or cheap Gumtree stuff. Cost us maybe $200.
It's not me living there thankfully.Knaldskalle wrote: ↑March 16th, 2020, 2:04 am I'm only just no catching up on this thread. Art, I believe the technical term for your situation is "fucked up." I'd save up for as long as possible and then just pack up and leave those jerks in the dust.
Nah, I assume no prep with pretty much every part of this mess we're in. LOL But I'm quite curious to read what you guy's have to write and it's going to be really telling how the haves and have-nots make it through this mess. Rich districts - it'll be a hiccup and the kids will go on. School calendar might be upset a bit. Some schools will wonder what they'll do if classes continue to Independence Day since they don't have air conditioning. But in poorer schools, I won't be one bit surprised to hear they just try to repeat half (or the full) year or something.PeacefulAnarchy wrote: ↑March 18th, 2020, 5:36 am You assume preparation by anyone anywhere in the process. Everyone does their own thing. At least I know how to troubleshoot my garbage phone and compress the ginormous video it gives me and upload it to a site that actually works. I can't imagine what the techphobic profs are doing.
Had my first meeting this afternoon with my tutor pupils. Most went fine. My app crashed one time. After restarting I could just join the meeting again, which kept going with my students. So first test went okay. No real lesson yet though. This was only to help them get started with the new learning situation.
Eh, it's all relative. We're complaining about work when some people aren't being paid or even being fired. Those people are complaining about their money worries when others are losing relatives or friends or severely sick. Those people are complaining about having health problems in a pandemic while others have to deal those things on daily basis for their entire lives.
My wife is in a similar situation. A colleague advised that she just upload whatever video she was shooting to Youtube (or some other video site), because Zoom is bound to crash once people start using it in large numbers. I'm not sure what she'll do yet, but at least she has the advantage of her previous lectures being filmed and made available to students, so if all else fails she can just upload lectures from previous years.PeacefulAnarchy wrote: ↑March 18th, 2020, 5:54 pmEh, it's all relative. We're complaining about work when some people aren't being paid or even being fired. Those people are complaining about their money worries when others are losing relatives or friends or severely sick. Those people are complaining about having health problems in a pandemic while others have to deal those things on daily basis for their entire lives.
As long as you're aware of the wider scope it's fine to vent and complain about the immediate.
I'm feeling better about my lessons (though I hate hearing my own voice) but live chatting is still something that I can't get working adequately, but maybe I'm being too picky about not forcing my students to install stuff.
So, the big question: did you see a log of what your tutor pupils had to say (about you) while you were restarting the app?joachimt wrote: ↑March 18th, 2020, 5:26 pmHad my first meeting this afternoon with my tutor pupils. Most went fine. My app crashed one time. After restarting I could just join the meeting again, which kept going with my students. So first test went okay. No real lesson yet though. This was only to help them get started with the new learning situation.
And you're right, xianjiro. I'm very lucky to live in such a rich environment. It's the same for my daughters. They got assignments today and a lot are digital. They both have a personal iPad, so it's easy for them to work. Some kids in their school haven't got enough equipment at home, like one computer in the house but three kids who have to work. But the school can provide devices to borrow.
So considering how this must be for a lot of people without all my wealth, I really shouldn't be posting in the complaint lounge.
PeacefulAnarchy wrote: ↑March 18th, 2020, 5:54 pmEh, it's all relative...
As long as you're aware of the wider scope it's fine to vent and complain about the immediate.
Everything they chat is saved in the team-thread.xianjiro wrote: ↑March 18th, 2020, 10:41 pmSo, the big question: did you see a log of what your tutor pupils had to say (about you) while you were restarting the app?joachimt wrote: ↑March 18th, 2020, 5:26 pmHad my first meeting this afternoon with my tutor pupils. Most went fine. My app crashed one time. After restarting I could just join the meeting again, which kept going with my students. So first test went okay. No real lesson yet though. This was only to help them get started with the new learning situation.
And you're right, xianjiro. I'm very lucky to live in such a rich environment. It's the same for my daughters. They got assignments today and a lot are digital. They both have a personal iPad, so it's easy for them to work. Some kids in their school haven't got enough equipment at home, like one computer in the house but three kids who have to work. But the school can provide devices to borrow.
So considering how this must be for a lot of people without all my wealth, I really shouldn't be posting in the complaint lounge.![]()