{"id":5770,"date":"2020-12-27T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T00:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2020-12-27T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T00:34:14","slug":"fall-semester-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2020\/12\/27\/fall-semester-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Semester Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They sat at their desks, some of them socially distanced some not, because we have more in-person students than two-person desks. So some sat shoulder to shoulder. Others of course, were sitting at desks at home, or  kitchen tables, or on beds in their rooms &#8230; on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>I handed out the bubble sheets and the final exam for those in the room. I clicked on the button to activate the online test for the Zoom kids. The room went quiet. Zoom was quiet, but then it always is.<\/p>\n<p>The Oreos made a racket.&nbsp;Two for each of them in the room. None for those on Zoom. Who knows if the Zoom kids knew what was going on when I put on a latex glove and started handing out the cookies. Surely some were on to me, because the camera was on, and I was making a racket.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you,&rdquo; every last one of them said, most of them with their noses buried in the exam.<\/p>\n<p>There was plenty of time. Fewer than 20 questions for a 2-hour test. Plenty of time. And when the time was almost over, I handed out a hand-drawn (but photo-copied &mdash; 180 kids, right?), hand-colored card to each of them sitting at the desks and posted a digital version to those of them on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2020\/12\/i-gmjxNBv\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2020\/12\/i-gmjxNBv\/0\/888eb507\/M\/2020%20Card-M.jpg\" alt=\"2020 holiday card\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some kids seemed to think the card was a cookie coaster, putting one Oreo on the black 2020 Covid circle and the other on the 2021 circle of light.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bad cookie\/good cookie.<\/em>&nbsp;On balance, not a bad way of looking at things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They sat at their desks, some of them socially distanced some not, because we have more in-person students than two-person desks. So some sat shoulder to shoulder. Others of course, were sitting at desks at home, or kitchen tables, or on beds in their rooms &#8230; on Zoom. I handed out the bubble sheets and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5772,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions\/5772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}