Tip for anyone teaching now or preparing to in September: online or in a classroom, teaching is still teaching, learning is learning, & it’s still “in person” & personal. Dress accordingly. @AnneLouiseAvery is of the finest resources for sartorial #Inspiration (and/or foxiness).
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1183381525963988992
For autumn / fall.
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1100668633112608778?s=21
I’ve tried teaching in colour (like you’re supposed to as per advice on How To Look “Good” On Video), and it’s just not comfortable. Sorry. Back to black for me, for work with focus.
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1180011980029136896?s=21
There’s nothing wrong with basic black. And everything right with it.
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1180820298364575749?s=21
Here are some more gorgeous things to wear, Zoom backgrounds, ideas for how to adorn your teaching environment (of which you yourself are a part) with atmospheric colour and fabric; unlike institutional classrooms, virtual ones are yours and wild and free
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/994968758476263425?s=21
More wearing of the green, for fellow teachers (and, as such, lifelong learners) of languages and of language, for crafty glamourous fictioneers, for all magical practitioners of the word-arts
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1187630215842934786?s=21
There’s plenty ways to be colourful and to express colour (including, of course, language itself)
https://twitter.com/betoreitenbach/status/1217341078682177538?s=21
Now that we’re past the equinox, and looking forwards—insofar and space and time have any directions these days—and reflecting on anti-fascism and anti-imperialism, on decolonialism and utopian pacifism, this kind of idea could be timely
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1177131744996265984?s=21
This dress and its description *are* teaching, and always have been, and may they ever be; it goes out, with love, to all part-time (or, doubly-full-time) intellectual and imaginative workers, to graduate students and sessional and adjunct faculty.
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1177300969371185152?s=21
Whatever you’re wearing, this is the colour and texture of teaching and learning, a marvellous magical (monstrous, too, for many of a closed mind) moment suspended outside time and the world, the luminosity of open thought in action itself
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1275840956630261762?s=21
Here’s more imaginary teaching outfits via an old #HappyAcademicNewYear thread
https://twitter.com/obrienatrix/status/1169043488039505920?s=20
... and back to black, in all its exquisite expressiveness (and back to work, and probably back off Twitter again for another few days and their work)
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1185992527993806852?s=20
#mood: Week 2 of the summer-intensive term, after too many online things failed or broke over the last 5 days & especially yesterday (a 15-hour day); that feeling when you attentively think through & carefully design something, to feel waste & wasted.
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1282725591033294849?s=20
Some more dresses for autumnal online teaching ...
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1191492188863156225?s=20
For winter teaching and wintering storms, and for solidarity and community and mutual aid online ...
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1201943891253059585?s=20
No-one ever looks forward to exam season (we’ve just had the midterm in my current class), but perhaps this midwinter magnificence might help ...
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1105755785580158976?s=20
... including this: looking ahead to the spring in teaching and learning, through exams and their purpose, preparing for what comes next, and in thinking about life in general
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1280454092213583872?s=20
This is the exact feeling embodied by a break exactly long enough for rest & respite: too long, you drift off into complete oblivion; that length in between, you worry about falling into forgetfulness. The soothing balm of a public holiday long weekend.
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1289506973768065024?s=20https://t.co/5fWcPs5cl0
#mood
#EvergreenMood
#EvergreenTweet
#MakeNecromancyALiberalArtAgain
#EvergreenMood
#EvergreenTweet
#MakeNecromancyALiberalArtAgain
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1155553162142650368?s=21https://t.co/ttX4DyEwZJ
Three weeks to go until the first week of next term ...
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1294655812112179200?s=20
... in that sense of mounting dread: exams to set for next week, exams (not the class I’m teaching, extra ones) to mark, syllabus to redo, a course to rework, colleagues to consult, all the known unknowns & unknown unknowns & unknowables, it’s a lot ...
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1168681256642646016?s=20
... but my main work today (yes, weekend; my own fault, spent yesterday evening & last night writing🙄) is setting tasks for a Graduate Administrative Assistant who works with me; & my Monday treat is reading student projects & portfolio-collections 🤗
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1176599302413664256?s=20
These student individual portfolios are curated multisensory collections, with commentary reflecting on learning; here’s to hoping that next term’s version can sustain them, and us all, through the fateful conjunction of pandemic and winter.
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1174458809231822849?s=20
That feeling of drifting inexorably into the start of the Happy Academic New Year, you & your courses all part of a larger flow of whimsical amusing-looking pretty delicate life-forms, while gazing up in wonder remembering that you’re part of slow-moving vast constellations.
https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1300860447667695616
What keeps faculty going through a very long week? With a full 40 hours already done by midweek—between the end of Friday and the end of Wednesday—and that’s a week with a public holiday Monday? Actual real live students in class on Thursday and Friday. Virtual is real too.
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1304121108199886848
And now for the weekend ...
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1137406390262218752
... albeit with some work on Saturday. Today is now formally over. It’s been over 12 hours. There are things left undone, but no work that can’t wait until tomorrow. Maybe even to be done on a beach, cursèd wildfire smoke permitting.
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1160480656926871552
Happy Academic New Year and autumn term, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, to faculty and students and other fellow knowledge-seekers conspiring to fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.
https://twitter.com/annelouiseavery/status/1162435346304552962
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