With it being Thursday, plus sciopero, it was a blessedly light day at the Institute. We both spent the afternoon working on lesson prep, and Dee gave her FH lesson online tonight, wowing the crowd with things you can do with all the different Google tools. Dee writes: I love it when I'm able to take people to another level with something they're already using, or introduce them to something new and wonderful and free. One of her students announced at the last minute that he would be there in person instead of online, which threw us into a panic because we don't have the tech to do that. She always uses a headset to suppress echoes and feedback. We tried a bit to use an audio splitter to connect two headsets without success, but finally just told him to sit in a different room and view the lesson using his phone. We will figure that out ahead of time if it happens again.
It was winter again. High temp was about 50, and it's getting down to freezing at night. Hopefully this is the last hurrah for cold weather before spring takes over for good. Our heat is on a shorter schedule at home, and will turn off completely on 31 March. We got home a bit early, which is nice, because Friday morning we have to leave early for Zone Conference.
Blog update from Tuesday from Dee: This is the office where I went for my permesso (permission to stay in Italy):
On the right, you can see the homemade filing system. The boxes contain the permesso paperwork for hundreds of people, all organized with hand-lettered dividers made out of a cardboard box. The office was pretty dreary and austere, but having a government job is a plum accomplishment.