so it's Wednesday
a teaching day for me which means I have
to pack all my stuff and cross town
to head to my brother's place so I could set up my
technology and talk to my students
over zoom because I cannot do it in
Qantab the internet is just not good enough over
here for that so
I'll show you what my day looks like
it's Wednesday
this is what I do every Wednesday
all right good morning so it is
8:10 a.m. I'm finally
awake enough to show up on the video I've
spent my morning checking my emails
going through canvas to make sure that
students have
left comments or I'm responding to
comments that need to be responded to
what I'm gonna do right now and what I
love to do every morning
is to get a workout and the closer I get
to nine o'clock the more unbearable it is
how hot is it right now well it is 87 degrees
actually you know I might take some
breaks today while I
while I run and show you what my
views are
alright let's get started
first stop is always to check out the
goats
I love them they walk around town they
eat everything
sometimes they'll stop say hi to you
sometimes they'll run away
but it's a perfect break to my run to
get to talk to them for a little bit
good morning guys
okay hey buddy
it's breakfast time
so for all of you that are interested
this is what my quote-unquote office
looks like while I'm here in Oman
you will notice a new addition a
microphone this is where I spend
eight to ten hours a day just sitting at
my table over here with my computer
and really not much exciting to document there but
take my word for it I woke up this morning
and I got prepared for my class
prepared next week's material as well so
I could communicate that to the students
and oh I went for a run to
a 4.5 mile run so now I'm going to head to
Madinat al Allam so enjoy the ride
all right so I'm in the car I had to
wait a little bit because it's
so hot and humid in Qantab that the
lens on the camera got foggy but
ready to make the track so it's a bit
of winding and
you know we'll weave through some
mountains so enjoy the ride
so I'm at my brother's place I'm going
to get set up I'll show you what the
setup looks like
hopefully for what my online class looks like
I think that's much better I think I'm
ready to teach class
class is in three hours
so I'm going to get prepped have some coffee
get excited for class so much to talk about
talking about unemployment today if you
haven't seen my videos on
unemployment check them out this
Friday is an important Friday as well
so keep an eye on jobs Friday that's coming up
this Friday we'll figure out what's
happening with the U.S.
unemployment rate how many jobs were created
where does the economy currently stand
I just got done with my weekly meet up
with my students it was
engaging fun it's really great to
connect with the students and
hear how they're processing the
information how the content is coming alive to them
and how they're seeing in their everyday life
I always leave these
discussions feeling
energized makes me miss being in the classroom
but I'm super proud of how my students are handling
all the content all their feedback they
they actually had a lot
of feedback on how to make the course
more engaging they wanted more content
and at the end of the day it's about
hearing what the students need and
making sure that I facilitate and create
that environment for them to thrive
and learn the most that they can
I told them today that my job is not to
make the content
or the rigor easier my job is to make it
so that the learning is easier they were
were eager about some of the changes
that we're going to make in the class
I'm excited about it and I'll look
for what happens
it's 6:45 p.m on Wednesday and now I could go
into Thursday and Friday creating the
content for the next couple of weeks
with the energy that I have and all this excitement
so good day now it's time to drive back to
Qantab well first of all I got to pack up everything
another week of class almost done can't believe
it's already three weeks of the semester
14 more to go
