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Team Techies - Supporting Our Educators through the Covid19 Pandemic
It seems timely to have received the following email from Schoolbox hercules@schoolbox.com.au
on Tuesday this week. The email included a really cool poster about Resilience in Uncertain Times, that refers to "supporting your teachers during unprecedented challenges".
Over the years the Techies have always participated in Team Dinners out, and this year was no exception. It's just one of those out of work things that we do every now and again to touch base on a social basis, no different to how work colleagues socialise in other work environments. About halfway through the middle of Term 1, we went for our first dinner outing for the year. Little did we know, that would be a last major social interaction in a face-to-face capacity for Techies with the Covid19 crisis looming.
However ... that didn't stop the Techies ....
During Alert Level 4 and Alert Level 3, the Techies participated in a range of social gatherings online. This included the Techie Masterchef Challenge, Isolation Egg Hunt, and May the 4th be with the Techies. The invitation was shared out to staff, and whoever wanted to participate, could. There were no expectations.
On the first day back to school, Monday 18th May, the Techies met in Lemoncello during Department meeting time after Staff Briefing, to celebrate coming back together again, and also to reflect back on and have a laugh at some of our online shenanigans during the Lockdown period. These can be viewed in the slide deck that follows.
It has been great seeing the Techies support each other through these crazy times. Having a laugh doesn't change that we're all experiencing incredible changes in our home environments as well as our work environments, both online and offline due to the Covid19 pandemic. But having a really good laugh together has really helped!
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Hi Hinerau. I particularly like the "addition" you included on the video!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Techies for all the fun over lockdown.
Hi Karen, ah yes, little editing tweak to restore balance to the universe :)
DeleteThe activities that went on during the lockdown was so much fun. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Equally important, it kept some normality with work colleagues because when the lockdown happened the turn around time was that quick it was hard to tell when I will be seeing people again. Although we met via the hangouts it made me feel like I was still at work. And it was such a good feeling to still stay connected. We did do work and we did teach but Hinerau allowed for some fun as well which was good for my mental well being. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAnd to return to normal at Level 2 and have a good laugh was just an awesome start to the term. All the goodies that we received as prizes for the lockdown activities was just the icing on the cake. Absolute loved the egg prize as I am sure no one expected that but it was a good laugh.
It did feel good being able to connect and do some fun stuff to balance out all of the craziness that Covid19 had planted at our feet. Who knew that calendar invitations and Google hangouts would lead to this! Such a great feeling seeing everyone face to face again as well when we all got back on Monday :)
DeleteBeing a newbie to this department, I felt totally welcomed by all the tech staff. We had lots of online fun during Covid 19 - cooking challenge, Easter egg hunt and making delicious home made pasta with my food tech colleague, Carol. We also met up online once a week to check that every one was okay.
ReplyDeleteI agree Meryl, I had so much fun. It definitely helped me out a lot being able to do heaps of cool stuff together :)
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