Author: Sarah Schmerler (Page 4 of 7)

Hi Class,

If you have not yet had a small group meeting with me, I have one more today: Jupiter, at 4:30PM, and am copying the invitation to you, below. It will help me if you RSVP in COMMENT here first before arriving.

S Schmerler is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: S Schmerler’s Zoom Meeting — JUPITER

Time: Apr 1, 2020 04:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9424075048

Meeting ID: 942 407 5048

Image of Jupiter taken from Wikipedia

210 582 220 is Meeting ID

056373 is password

Join Zoom Meeting
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__us04web.zoom.us_j_210582220-3Fpwd-3DbVFtMElucTIwdE9kNmV2bldyVGJaUT09&d=DwICaQ&c=pRW6ZPn_LDv0DnDIAK65Ad0CA4hBS-2mAmNa2_oHfF0&r=iA72GoOSlUKOt7bQlVTmhEkdcsC168SCwquDzAxHwLg&m=ktldqsG6LrLfX-2kpcwb1M_5zW181YbxESgt4Hata-8&s=6NBryWa0_wPhTstQwOo3f2pWj3mjW39JrFogc-oGOmQ&e=

Meeting ID: 210 582 220
Password: 056373

try the above. does it work?

Photo of Neptune via Wikipedia

Looking forward to visiting with you tomorrow. To be ready for this meeting you should have already: posted an extended Diary excerpt by now; and have completed and posted your reflection/summary.

You should also have read all the posts of all the other people on your planet before the meeting starts.

Uranus from Wikipedia

I have an assignment suggestion from Pluto. It’s a good one. Thank you, Plutonians!

PLUTO: TODAY, MAR 30 AT 4:30pm

Neptune: TUES, MAR 31 AT NOON

URANUS , TUES, MAR 31 AT 1:30PM

Saturn: WED APR 1 11:30AM

Jupiter:  WED APR 1 4:40PM

Zoom. Meeting ID is 942-407-5048. Meeting should last about 15 to 20 minutes. If more than 3 people respond I will hold the meeting. I don’t want to exceed 5 participants each if possible.

Respond with a COMMENT to this post for which Planet/Time. If you need me to alter time, let me know. Thanks.

Solar System illustration from Wikipedia

“Pluto” is meeting at 4:30PM today, Monday Mar 30 on Zoom. The meeting ID is: 942-407-5048 and should last for about 20 minutes.
I have invited 5 students by email; my guess is that not all of them can make it so soon, so anyone who wants to land on this planet discussion group is welcome — just let me know.

Discussion Points for Zoom Planet Meeting: Everyone on your planet needs to read everyone else’s posts and be prepared to discuss them. We want to talk about how we are shaping our diaries so far. What are the main tones or themes? How can we analyze them as a piece of writing and not just for content? How did we analyze the diary we chose to read — and, did it help us?

Additional discussion point to bring to the meeting: a skill/personal interest/hobby/art/goal — something you are working on during this period of time (not school work). If this makes you cringe, then you are probably doing it right. If we don’t have time during our first Planet meeting, then we will do it during the second one.

Please put “[PLANET NAME]_1” in the subject line of a comment, message, or email to me and tell me if you can attend once I invite you.

I am new to this format, and there will probably be issues, so: Please be patient with me as we test this out. I picked the outermost planet first, because we are living in such weird times, it seemed appropriate. I am making suggestions of groups. My goal is to get a mix of styles and voices. If you can’t attend, or need to join another Planet, fine! Just let me know. Also, please be flexible. If someone please needs to switch times, please let me move you around until we find what works. Thanks.

Good Morning, Class, and welcome to this recess period. This is a good time for us to talk and take stock of the work you’ve done thus far and discuss how to move forward. I am setting up Zoom meetings for the next three days and will be inviting you. My thought is: if I group you into smaller circles, rather than one big class circle, we can all focus better, and have better discussion.

image of Pluto from nineplanets.org

15-20 minutes each session

4 or 5 people at a time

each small zoom circle is going to be called a “planet” so I can keep them all straight.

I am looking for your reflection/summary assignments today, Monday…only one is turned in so far. Those will be referred to in our group discussion. So please get them to me.

Looking forward to “seeing” you all soon! I will send you another post with parameters of the meetings.

-Prof. S.

Made you a short video for this “re-calibration” week-end. What we are up to right now:

https://youtu.be/lVMOtRZ7QZE

I write to you in real time. It’s a new concept. Watch and see what you think.

MARCH 25, 2020 – CARROLL GARDENS, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY

1:00PM

I wanted to be at my computer and on OpenLab this morning at 8:30, but I didn’t sleep well last night because I was worried. I read the NYTIMES and saw about a thousand emails from school administration, and I got confused and upset. I got back to bed around 5:45AM.

My brother is sending me inflamed emails and texts, telling me that I must get out of NYC and live in a hotel for 14 days someplace near him, and blaming me for allowing my son to live in NYC (as if there was any other choice I had. His school closed).

I have weird habits. I don’t put groceries away right away. I sort of let them sit for a bit (24 hours or more), because I am afraid of touching them when I come back from the supermarket. I still haven’t put my son’s laundry away that he brought from college. that’s it, below.

I haven’t been hoarding — just going out every day or two for my/our basic needs. What do I do if I buy eggs? I have to put them in the fridge. I still buy fresh produce, and I wonder if this is wrong somehow.

Now that the reports are out that over 30,000 people in New York State, I am getting upset about hula hooping. It’s what I like to do every day. I stand by myself. I don’t go near people in the park (it is an ugly park, with only a baseball diamond on an old cement and asphalt surface. No grass, anywhere). Well the hula hoop touches the ground, and I pick it up. It touches my jacket. I wear cloth gloves while I hula hoop. How safe can I be? I feel like it was wrong of me to do it. Now I am scared of anything. I don’t have alcohol or Clorox wipes. I tried to buy them, but no place had them, and Amazon said it couldn’t deliver before May if I ordered them.

(These are new hoops I haven’t used yet, made for me this week. They are still sitting outside the door.)

My Pastimes/skills/ and this Pandemic Season

I used to go to a dance session/cypher every week. Now that’s stopped. I was hoping to perfect my moves during this time. I practice a form of dance called “popping” or “animation.” People group it with hip-hop, and yes, it comes from a similar tree, but its philosophy is different. During the first week of my sheltering it gave me a lot of comfort. “My moves can get nice!,” I thought to myself. “Now, I will practice — and even San Jose Strut better.” (That syle is hard. I totally respect it. It is kind of a sub-set of popping…but different. The west coast has proprietary dibs on it, but I have followed a few people I really respect in that style, and have even met one: Money B. and have studied a bit with another: Africano.)

This is a typical night at my popping session that I recorded on my iPhone a while ago:

Maybe this give you an idea of what it’s like. My heart is heavy right now, to be honest, and I don’t feel like practicing.

This is Africano demonstrating San Jose Strutting at a workshop I did a couple of years ago, also recorded on my iPhone:

Is there hope? I want to get back to this. I need to. I think that skills and stuff that makes us feel valid and that life is purposeful are even more important right now.

Now I gotta go. I wish it wasn’t raining.