Be Gentle With Us, 2021
Happy New Year, my dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends! I’m weeping tears of joy on the inside, I swear.
Is it really gone? IS IT REALLY GONE?!?!?!?
I find myself wishing that 2020 had had a groin that I could have kicked. Over and over again. Alas, there was nothing corporeal upon which we could exact revenge. We’ll have to be content with doing everything in our power to enjoy this year.
There are a lot of lessons to be learned from last year, to be sure. Will we learn them? Let us hope we do. We don’t have to learn them all. One or two choice ones could give us quite an evolutionary leap from the shallow plane we’d inhabited as a species for several years leading up to the Year of the Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu.
Updated on December 23, 2020 at 10:11 am
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A Christmas carol reimagined by teachers at a Maryland school seems to perfectly capture one of 2020’s biggest struggles: virtual learning.
Educators from Gaithersburg Middle School created a parody song called “The 12 Days of Zoom Class.”
Holiday classic The Twelve Days of Christmas always seems like it goes on forever. And so did 2020 especially for teachers who have become too familiar with the many hiccups and tech problems possible during online learning.
Ernie Padilla shared this fun video with News4, saying he thinks it turned out well.
To all the educators out there: Thank you, and we hope you have a relaxing holiday break.
Updated on December 23, 2020 at 7:11 am
NBC Universal, Inc.
A Christmas carol reimagined by teachers at a Maryland school seems to perfectly capture one of 2020’s biggest struggles: virtual learning.
Educators from Gaithersburg Middle School created a parody song called “The 12 Days of Zoom Class.”
Holiday classic The Twelve Days of Christmas always seems like it goes on forever. And so did 2020 especially for teachers who have become too familiar with the many hiccups and tech problems possible during online learning.
Ernie Padilla shared this fun video with News4, saying he thinks it turned out well.
To all the educators out there: Thank you, and we hope you have a relaxing holiday break.
Maryland Dec 30, 2020
It’s been recorded and performed by hundreds of artists around the world. It’s been written about for decades. “Take Me Home, Country Roads” was John Denver’s first big hit and became both his signature song and West Virginia’s state song. Like many great songs, there are great stories behind the song as well. Some true, some not so true. Maryland Dec 29, 2020
The unexpected Covid-19 lockdowns around the world have greatly reduced the variables for the “future casting” that tech columnists are asked to do each year by editors.
WFH is now a bona fide acronym (for work from home) at least in the tech industry, where I see it used with as much regularity as well-known acronyms like SMS or OTP. It’s the new work movement.
But, like much else that exploded into the mainstream this year, it’s been a long time coming. I first wrote about “telecommuting”, as it was then called, in the late 1990s; before it evolved through several iterations of distributed workforce to plain old WFH.