Hi gep-eders, If you are like me, all your hopes and dreams for the semester have been shattered and you are stuck with the prospect of lots of small-screen faces all zooming at you as you talk to your computer. Today, my class was to have begun it’s extensive multi-class negotiations session, one that would have been really difficult in person…and one that I fear is not feasible online. Well, it might be feasible if the students were primed and pumped to engage in an online discussion, but I’m thinking that the next month is going to entail a great deal of distraction…. If it’s hard to get students off their ADDs (advanced digital devices, not the other ADD…though who’s to tell the difference) in class, what reason is there to think a tiny zoom screen is going to captivate them?
All of which is to say that I’m not sure what I’m going to do over the coming weeks, but as a backstop I’ve put together a listing of climate change documentary films <http://gep-guide.net/climate/documentaries.html>. I’ve a ways to go on it, but thought I’d share as this might come in useful in the new reality. Who knew that a brand of Mexican beer could have such a devastating effect on civilization? Too bad we didn’t build that wall in time. See you on some tiny screen in the dystopic future, Charlie Chester ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New email address: [email protected] GEP-guide.net <http://gep-guide.net/> • BCI <http://batcon.org/> • Y2Y <http://y2y.net/> • Brandeis <http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/environmental/> • Fletcher <https://sites.tufts.edu/cierp/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/A50EFE2D-A0C4-482B-8B49-E2A1A44061F1%40gep-guide.net.
