
31Dec2020 San Diego, California It's certainly been a wacky year (what an understatement, right?) Nothing like what we expected life in 2020 to be like this time last year. I'm curious, now, what I was thinking a year ago this time. I was under the impression that it was going to be my last semester teaching full-time at the college. Turns out that won't be the outcome, either. According to plan, I should be retired by now. That will wait for a bit. TEACHING ONLINE . Before Covid-19 hit I wasn't a big fan of teaching online. Oh, I'd used it throughout my career, from Blackboard resources when I taught in the CSU, and other augmentations in the decades since then. Our campus went through two of three types of software over the years, the last one being Moodle. But I never went all-in with any of them because the system was constantly fraught with reliability issues. Server can't handle the traffic, software can...