What’s Happening? The decision has been made. The county health officer says school re-openings are not safe, so we’ll begin the 2020-2021 school year teaching remotely. Honestly, I feel optimistic. I have some fun ideas about what the digital environment might look like. If my supervising teacher agrees, I’ll be using a role-playing game as a mechanism for social/emotional learning. Many tutorials await.
What I’m Working On. As previously mentioned, I’m in the midst of revising Prisoners of the Wailing Tower. I’ve managed to consolidate a few short scenes into one medium one, but I’ve also added a couple. We shall see if I’m able to reduce the total word count in this draft.
What’s Next? It remains to be seen if I feel Prisoners is ready for publication in late November. But, for obvious reasons, most of the events where I would have publicized a new e-book have been cancelled. I do plan to participate in Bad Moon Rising, a book event hosted by horror novelist Teri Polen every October. So there’s that to look forward to.
Fun and games. Currently I’m playing Animal Crossing as a casual game, and my beloved Dragon Age Inquisition for action, romance and adventure. I’ve also been setting aside time to read in the evenings or work on jigsaw puzzles. I stay up too late with video games.
This week is my husband’s vacation from work. This is kind of weird, since I feel like I’ve already been on vacation since March. But he hasn’t been. At any moment I may be snatched away from what I’m doing to go for a hike or to the lake, but that’s okay. Prisoners and Inquisition will still be there when we get back.
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You should allow yourself a few moments away. A walk to the lake sounds safe enough.
They’re going ahead with school openings here in a couple weeks, but parents have the option of keeping their kids at home for on-line learning. We’ll see how it goes, but I’m not optimistic.
I don’t know how the students feel, but some of the parents are being quite bratty about it. They’re tired of their kids. But, you know, maybe that’s something the families need to work on?
I’m glad you’re feeling optimistic. I’m looking forward to the book; I’ve enjoyed all in the series so far.
It’s interesting how things change. Role-playing games were once supposedly a blight on the minds and souls of our young people. Now they’re used as educational tools.
Videos games were rotting the minds of our youth–but I used educational video games when I ran a computer lab. I remember one student in particular who struggled with math in the classroom, but excelled at doing math equations when they were part of a game on computer screen. I remember how amazed and pleased his teacher was.
I believe anything can be helpful or hurtful depending upon how it’s used.