Do you read people’s writings about covid? I don’t, if I can help it.
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PhotoPrompt #47: Closed road
No, I don’t understand it either.
Read MorePhotoPrompt #44: How to wash your hands
Shouldn’t we have had booths like this a long time ago, long before the pandemic?
Read MorePhotoPrompt #35: Foxglove, rubbish and compost
An example of nature’s resilience.
Read MoreWhen adult education classes resume, will you go back?
As there are quite a few advantages to learning online, I’m not sure I’d want to go back to the old way of taking classes.
Read MorePhotoPrompt #33: Park benches in the time of Covid
The effect is to heighten the prevailing sense of dystopia.
Read MorePhotoPrompt #32: Shops in the time of Covid
When is a shop not a shop?
Read MorePhotoPrompt #31: Schools in the time of Covid
Is a closed school a school?
Read MoreZoom meeting backgrounds: a glimpse into the lives of others
Is having a virtual background cheating in a sense? And is having a virtual background that looks like your own but isn’t really, cheating even more?
Read MorePhotoPrompt #30: Skies in the time of Covid
One of the unexpected benefits of the Covid-19 pandemic has been clear blue skies.
Read MorePhotoPrompt #28: Hospitals in the time of Covid19
Who could have foreseen that hospitals would ever have this level of security?
Read MoreCovid19: who ya gonna trust?
An Australian news channel has hit upon an astonishingly original idea: a podcast about coronavirus featuring people who have some idea of what they’re talking about.
Read MoreHow good is online workshopping?
Tutors, especially, but also students, should do their utmost to make full use of all the facilities that online tools afford.
Read MoreThe perils of online discussions: messaging
Now that your experience of being in a classroom has narrowed to the dimensions of your own study or living room, you may be interested to learn from some of the mistakes I have made when it comes to learning online.
Read MoreCovid-19: Time to read The Plague?
In his novel The Plague, Camus described fairly accurately people’s attitudes and behaviour during a plague. It seems rather apposite in our current circumstances.
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Should you be feeling bereft because of the absence of new articles on this website, here is some good news.
Read MoreCovid-19: Free resources from Publishers Weekly
One of the pleasures of attending the London Book Fair is being able to pick up and read issues of Publishers Weekly. Unfortunately, because of the Covid-19 crisis, the LBF didn’t take place this year. But here is some good news.
Read MoreCovid-19: Why it's important to carry on writing
Although continuing to write as if everything is business as usual is quite hard at the moment, I think it’s important to try.
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