I’m an introvert and a teacher. In class I successfully turn myself into a charismatic extrovert. I have 80+ teenage pupils to manage remotely, with me on ca

I’m an introvert and a teacher. In class I successfully turn myself into a charismatic extrovert. I have 80+ teenage pupils to manage remotely, with me on camera for a significant amount of that time. I find it very easy. All pupils have an iPad. We all have full accounts in Microsoft Outlook and in Google Classroom, Forms, Docs and Meet. Being remote has made me tighten up my document formatting game. I just set up a nice asciidoctor template to make classroom materials have a bit more wow factor for the assignments and ideas I post online. The tools hold pupils to deadlines. It’s a boundary they respect and it gets a lot more out of them. They find remote work a lot harder than I do of course. It makes school feel a lot more tiring. (Periods have about 30% face time and the rest they are left to work under their own steam — with parents no doubt pushing them on my behalf.) We will go back to school eventually and we had all these tools before but I don’t feel we used them to anything like the full extent we do right now. Remote teaching has really changed the game for me, for the better. It’s not something I’d choose to do — for their sake — but I’m enjoying what it’s helped me learn and look forward to carrying a ton of techniques over into the new school year.