A School Night

It's a school night!  It's been over 5 months since you went to bed knowing that you had to be up for classes at a particular time the next day.  I know that it will be quite a bit easier to adjust to the start since your first class won't begin until 9am, but if you have been sleeping until noon every day, tomorrow morning is going to be rough... so please, try to go to bed soon!  :-)

My email inbox has been FLOODED all weekend with students asking how this will work.  And my guess is that once you make it through tomorrow your fears and uncertainty will quickly fade away.  But here is my quick reminders to you before tomorrow...

1. This is school!  Be prepared.  Have paper, pencil/ pen, calculator (depending on the class), and any of the materials left in your bag that you picked up from school that pertain to the class readily accessible to you when it is time for that particular course.  

2. Log in on time.  Camera on and microphone off unless your teacher directs you otherwise.

3. When you log in - you can go to the new portal access point: http://wscloud.helloid.com/ from there you will log in using your wscloud email (without the @wscloud.org part) and password.  

4. You will then see a range of applications - Schoology will hopefully show up on your list, but if it doesn't just search for it and select it.

5. By selecting Schoology you will then see all of your classes.  Pick the class for your assigned time.  Just a reminder here is the link to the whole schedule, but tomorrow 1st, 2nd, 5th and 6th periods are the classes that will meet.  The Zoom links for your classes will be in that class Schoology page.

6. You have 10 minutes between 1st and 2nd and again between 5th and 6th periods.  Get up and MOVE!  Use the restroom, get a drink or snack, run up and down the stairs a few times, walk outside and take a lap around your house.  It will be an adjustment to keeping your brain fully engaged for the hour of online learning so help yourself in that effort by not just sitting at your computer for 2 hours and 10 minutes straight.

7. People have asked other things such as "what is connections" and we have posted additional resources on the WKHS Counselor page - www.wkhscounselors.com - to help answer some of those and to have one place where the information that the administrators or district staff have sent home to help use Schoology.  Check the website if you have questions or feel free to email me.  Just be patient as I try to respond to help everyone who has questions.  (Even as I am sitting here writing this 6 emails have arrived to my inbox...)

8. And last, but definitely not least, remember that we are all in this together.  I know there will be some hiccups.  There always is on every first day, but we will get through it.  There is a learning curve to this and you absolutely WILL adjust just like your teachers will and I'm still here to try to help support you because we are Worthington Strong and we have made it through far more challenging times than how we do remote learning... so this, we can do this!