Somerset@Home - Learning During a Pandemic

from Somerset Lifetimes, 55th Edition | 2020

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LEARNING DURING A PANDEMIC

As we transitioned to Somerset@ Home, Schoolbox moved to become the classroom “space” and its usage expanded across all areas of College life. The amazing statistics below tell the story of maintaining relationships, connection and academic rigour during this time.

Behind each of these numbers and these activities are our teachers and students, hard at work sharing, caring, learning, giving feedback and communicating. Our platform has supported the student-teacher relationships at this time and allowed us to keep connected and engaged.

During Somerset@Home, we had: • 2,961- Blog Posts • 3,692 - Quiz Attempts • 6,743 - Zoom Sessions • 25,098 - Due Work Submitted • 26,420 - Clickview Video Views • 39,208 - Social Stream Posts We saw teachers confidently zooming, screen-casting, creating videos, blogging and reverse engineering their teaching to adapt to the new environment - so much agility in an uncertain time. They were supported by amazing teacher assistants and the IT team, lead superbly by Ms Lisa Thomson, Dean of Information Technologies.

We have seen students respond to new ways of working and learning, communicate with their teachers and collaborate with peers online, take responsibility for organisation and time management, share insights into their lives and continue to build relationships. They’ve learnt and exhibited so many fantastic 21st Century skills during this time.

And to wrap up, for the statistic lovers amongst us, those 6743 zoom sessions have equated to 2,914,08 minutes of Zoom or 5.5 years of meetings with 159,945 participants. That is a lot of face time and a lot of hellos and goodbyes.

During our special offer of food and drinks from the Bird and Bush from 27 April to 22 May we provided:

• 2439 Barista made (staff coffees) – making it an average of 129 x $1.00 coffee caffeine hits per day. Compared to normal stats of 78 coffees. • 500 Staff meals were freshly made – making it an average of 125 x staff members utilised our $10.00 weekly meal offer. • 46/116 Year 12 students had Mr B’s Mad Welcome Back Lunch in their first week back to the College, and; • 1033 combined Morning Tea and Online Lunches were purchased by Junior School students.