Today I talk with Michael Covey, colleague and ELA teacher at Mendez and with Jose a student of whom we have in common about the similarities between the Anne Frank play and students staying at home. In addition we talk about Harriet Jacobs, the female slave who escaped and spent a couple of years in her grandmother's attic avoiding detection. 

Faced with the dilemma of doing virtual teaching for the long term what are the key questions to consider when planning instruction for students who are shut in most of the day?  What should be graded? How long should the lesson be? How many times a week should I e-mail the students? All of these are part of our new reality as teachers.

Many teachers are now relegated to teaching remotely at home. I review my first two days along with students insights of what it is like to be shelter-in-place. 

After presenting at OCCUE Chris talks about the actual implementation of Google Slides as a slide deck and for annotating pictures. Also there are a few tidbits on using Google Draw as well. Finally, Chris talks about using Google Forms assessing where students are at when they enter his classroom.