With the news of schools closing due to the pandemic threat, I’ve been prompted to think about how long my class could continue if we weren’t meeting at school.
Although not all of my students have computers at home equipped with the internet, most of them do. Those that do could visit our class wiki to download videos, PowerPoints, handouts and rubrics. The students could complete assignments and post them to the wiki. Students could have conversations about texts on there as well.
We wouldn’t be meeting face to face, but it would be a temporary classroom without walls. Those of us equipped with the right technology could meet for a while and keep the conversation and learning going without a traditional classroom to do it in (provided none of us got sick). Now let’s hope for the best.
