It has been almost three years since the spread of COVID-19 was declared to be a pandemic.1 Although some of us were paying attention to the potential mess that was becoming clear weeks earlier.
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Second Anniversary
Welcome to the third year of the pandemic.
On this date in 2020, the World Health Organization declared a fast-spreading virus called COVID-19 to be a world-wide pandemic, and everything officially fell apart. Although some of us who had been watching world news understood something very bad was happening long before the official notice.
Testing Live Conferences
Last summer I posted some rambling thoughts in this space on the future of in-person edtech conferences.
Asking questions like: after nearly two years of remote professional development activities, will educators want to return to face-to-face meetings involving hundreds of participants in a confined space? Will they and their schools want to spend the money to make it happen?
Vaccine Passports Mean More Freedom
As I tentatively begin planning journeys outside the US for next year and beyond, it’s hard avoid seeing posts, tweets, and articles ranting about the evils of vaccine “passports”. Something about restricting your “freedom”.
Vaccine passports, which are being developed by the European Union, the state of New York, and others (public and private) are simply some kind of document, physical or digital, certifying that a person has recently been inoculated against highly contagious diseases.
It Only Took a Pandemic
As it does about this time every year, the school board here in our overly-large school district just approved a budget for the upcoming academic school year.
I haven’t done much more than read the summary documents but, other than being “focused on COVID-19 recovery”, I doubt there is much surprising buried in the hundreds of pages.