I'm seeing a frighteningly large number of people rhetorically throwing up their hands and lamenting that they can't do online what they would do in a face-to-face class. You're right, you can't, and there's loss involved in that that is worth grieving. But that's not the end -

- of the story. We are all smart people. We love to read and think. In my field (history) when we start out on a new project, we read widely from those who have gone before us, and we work out best practices as well as the things that need to change. Pedagogy should be the same

There are so many experts on online learning out there. Why wouldn't we want to read what they have to say? Think about their approaches? Figure out what works for each of us and our students?

My therapist (free therapy for everyone, yay!) told me yesterday to pay attention to my words, and to think about how I was framing my experience. Instead of "trapped" she suggested I learn to think "I'm sheltering," for example. We may need to do the same with our teaching.

We should absolutely process all that we're feeling about shifting to being online, if that's what's happening in our teaching life. This is not a call to pretend we're not feeling those things. But it is a call to apply the same skills we use elsewhere in our professional life -

- to our teaching life. Read. Think. Chat with one another. Circulate ideas, and listen to those who've gone before us and who have expertise we may not have.

There is so much we *can* do.