I have not blogged for months already. I simply stopped or simply forgot about blogging. I even wondered why. The taste of doing it. The inspiration to write has been gone for months. But I realized I have those thoughts running in my mind "i should have written this experience"...On and on. until I lost touch again with this inner voice that would always prod me to write my experience.
I got so busy. I went into doing so many things in my life taking care of work (shifting from face to face to virtual classes), family life, giving talks from time to time, record videos for my students and so many more.
The following are the things that got into me :
Firstly, I feel like i have a special meter stick inside in terms of making a choice. I simply based them on how to make my life simpler at the moment ( left the "limelight" of having a designation at work and simply chose a career as a fulltime faculty in the social sciences).
Secondly, I tried to simplify my way of dealing with my students on a virtual platform : prepared class guidelines, extended deadlines, accepted all submissions, record videos for students to review if they need to (compared to live virtual discussions where they could only hear discussions one time only and those who will not be able to make will lose the chance of hearing the discussions), opened an account at edmodo where all tasks, links for videos and quizzes are posted etc. and gave lesser workload to students.
Lastly, a lot of things can happen though. Nothing is final yet. I will continue to blog and this time with vlog. I have gone so far as my 10th year of blogging though. This is a great reason to keep on pushing even with a "foggy" and unclear path ahead. I just feel that what I went through is part of the process. I am human and I went through the process of living, grilling and learning from life. There is no reason to stop.
