Week 10

Like the rest of you, it seems the world went crazy for toilet paper over the weekend. COVID-19 delivered pandemonium with the pandemic. Everything that I had planned for my projects came to a screeching halt when schools closed. What started as a 2 week shutdown, turned into the rest of the semester. My company asked all employees with technical jobs, which includes me, to work from home until health officials know more about this virus. I was scheduled to do a presentation on Digital Citizenship at Dalton State College for their Bold Talks bi-annual seminar. I was also supposed to help with some of the other presentations, but the event was cancelled.


I continue to work on the Google Sheets project for Shaw. I am spending hours getting screen cast videos worked out. It is harder than it looks to get a tutorial just right. A couple of hours and 4 or 5 (or 10) takes, and I tell myself that I've covered everything - mostly because I tire of listening to myself I think.

I was invited and got to participate in a Shaw Learning Council meeting. The meeting was live, but everyone was muted once the presentation part began (link to recorded session here: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AvcbjTEVHctjiRRLLKYpobnJji3V?e=xwg68Y). The meeting was interesting and thankfully was not all about the virus.

Anyway, everything else has been put under our new reality. Society is rightly concerned about this highly contagious disease. I am in the virus' wheel house, so to speak. It seems to have the worst affect on people my age and older. I hope you are all safe and that you have found a means of progressing with your assignments.

Stay safe, and keep your social circles small.



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