I teach Face to Face when it is nice and I teach on the softball field. Then when it rains, I teach online via Zoom. (Of course, I have an asynchronous part of the class that just is on Moodle, but that’s another story.) Well Monday’s class went great. No rain. Barely any clouds. Then came Wednesday…

Last night, I was watching the weather and it kept saying 50% chance of rain right through the time my lab and class were supposed to take place. I asked Colleen what I should do. She said it is easy, if its greater than 60% chance of rain tell the students class should be online and if it is less than 40% tell them to expect to be in person. HAHAHAHA! Thanks! Ultimately I ended up moving class online last night.

But then my OCD kicked in. I immediately started stressing. I started thinking, “I am so lazy, teaching from home when I should be going into work.” “I am so terrible.” WTH?

I had all kinds of weird dreams last night. I dreamt about the time in high school, we were supposed to play a baseball game, and I was looking at the window at a snow storm. I was thinking we could completely play baseball today. I was also thinking that if my class was held at Ainsworth (https://deadballbaseball.com/?p=6066), we’d have class. I’d have no problem holding class in the rain, as long as the students stayed dry. Ainsworth had a nice awning.

Whelp, its class time now. I have students doing their labs from their dorm rooms. We are having a good class. I am happy with how the lab is going and how my day has gotten off to a start. This is clearly a situation when the feeling is worse than the actual thing. Its turning out to be a great lab.

In fact I think Google Sheets is far more active to learn spreadsheets on-line than in person. Everyone can do parts of the calculation together in real time. Talk about a really good learning environment.