Harvard Done For the Year
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:45 pm
I just got word today from our lead vault coach here at Lodi High that Harvard has shut down the entire spring sport season and converted all classes to online classes in response to the Coronavirus. This probably doesn't affect his freshman vaulter son, who was likely out for the season anyway with a bruised pelvis and mono (he fell on a vault during indoor track), but it will be interesting to see how Harvard will do these online classes. While I was doing online coursework at Liberty for my B.S. and M.A.R., we simulated classroom discussion via discussion boards, where most of the classes were divvied up into groups where each member of the group posted a response to an initial question, to which each member of the group responded. Sometimes, it was a free-for-all, in which the class was one big group in which each classmate posted, and everyone had to respond to at least three threads. So, will Harvard do that, or will they do Skype? I guess we'll find out when Sam gets home....