# Share an Extraordinary Story of an Educator Response to COVID-19
**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/share-an-extraordinary-story-of-an-educator-response-to-covid-19/19
**Category:** The Plaza
**Created:** [April 24, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/share-an-extraordinary-story-of-an-educator-response-to-covid-19/19 "2020-04-24T17:53:34Z")
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/share-an-extraordinary-story-of-an-educator-response-to-covid-19/19/1 "2020-04-24T17:53:34Z")
Hi, I’m Alan Levine, from OE Global, your host for this current **OE in Action** topic.
We’ve all been busy adjusting to changes brought by the COVID-19 crisis, altering course delivery, adjusting schedules, adapting to working and learning away from our usual locales, and most importantly addressing student needs.
It’s been as often said, an unprecedented time. And in the rush of all that is done, leaving a wake of remote meeting fatigue, there are extraordinary efforts worth openly sharing widely as both a source of inspiration and also for ideas worth exploring.
_No story of this time period is too small to be worth sharing._
We opened a site at [https://splot.ca/extraordinary/](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/) that allows these to be easily posted
[Just complete the share a story form](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/collect). Or just post your story here as a reply; we will be glad to add new ones to this site.
This is also a great way to introduce yourself and connect to others here at OEG Connect.
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/share-an-extraordinary-story-of-an-educator-response-to-covid-19/19/2 "2020-04-24T19:18:33Z")
For some examples of stories that are already in the collection:
> **[H5P/Virtual Simulations for Nursing Education](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/101/)**
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> The Open RN is continually creating new OER H5P branching scenarios that can be used as virtual simulations for nursing students who cannot attend clinical sites during the COVID crisis. Associated OER videos are also uploaded to the Open RN YouTube...
> **[Comics in Crisis](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/214/)**
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> Graphic novelist Declan Miller has created this site include short video "how tos" and collection of resources to teach others how to create comics.
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> Making art is fantastic outlet that everyone can do from home with very minimal technology (paper...
> **[Turned My Kitchen into a Chemistry Lab](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/301/)**
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> Armed with an iPhone, instagram live, and some of his laboratory equipment, high school chemistry teacher Jonte Lee started broadcasting from his home kitchen:
> To support students learning from home, for the past two weeks, I turned my kitchen...
> **[Student Narration of Winning Open Textbook Now Available.](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/191/)**
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> A beta version of a year-long audio OER project is now available. SUNY Geneseo communications professor Lee Pierce gave her students an assignment to record audio of themselves reading one of the Blueprint for Success in College and Career...
While we call these stories “extraordinary” that really means just outside of range of what is “ordinary.” Do any of these stories give you ideas? Do you know of similar efforts from your own work? [Please share on the Extraordinary stories site](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/collect) or just as a reply here.
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### Author:  [@unatdaly](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/unatdaly)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/share-an-extraordinary-story-of-an-educator-response-to-covid-19/19/3 "2020-04-27T20:30:27Z")
Just posted one from the Virginia Community College System. [https://splot.ca/extraordinary/type/cccoer/](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/type/cccoer/)
How do I embed the collectible story? Probably something I need to grab in the splot dashboard?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/share-an-extraordinary-story-of-an-educator-response-to-covid-19/19/4 "2020-04-28T16:13:33Z")
No special embed codes are needed, Una. The discourse site makes use of the underlying code the SPLOT (and many other sites) provides for sharing in social media ([Open Graph](https://ogp.me/)) to embed a “card like” entry. Just inserting a URL for a single story on a blank line in the editor here
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https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/73/
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will automatically create a “card” like preview
> **[Helpful Online Learning Activities from Houston Community College's Brainy...](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/73/)**
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> In this regular series of short videos posted to Twitter and YouTube, Stacee Hawkins from Houston Community College HCCTV shares free online resources that are especially helpful during this period of transition during the COVID-19...
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2020, 3:56pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/share-an-extraordinary-story-of-an-educator-response-to-covid-19/19/5 "2020-05-07T15:56:41Z")
Below is a sampling in variety of new stories recently added to the collection. Maybe people think “Extraordinary” needs to be big? I’ve re-wrote the welcome to suggest that with no regular sense of ordinary, everything is just beyond it.
I am curious to know what kinds of stories give this sense of a humane, generous, thoughtful, and even low tech means of helping now.
> **[Without Access, What Are The Options?](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/340/)**
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> ACC Library Services partners with the ACC’s Student Affairs Student Support Center to provide access to a physical textbook collection of just over 2100 items, which are purchased annually with federal grant dollars.
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> When access to campuses and...
> **[CORontonine Corps: A Global Dance Project](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/333/)**
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> Dance instructors from around the world, at any level, are invited to share any project, media, writing about teaching and performing dance during the COVID-19 event.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4P4zgAdXsU
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> Ths inspiration was the Mitchell...
> **[Freakin’ Awesome Instructional Designers Keep Learning in Motion in Virginia](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/320/)**
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> 23 Colleges + 10K Faculty + 30K Courses + 240K Students = 12 hour days for Virginia’s Community Colleges’ (VCCS) Instructional Designers.
> Each one received a token of appreciation with hats that state “VCCS Instructional Designer: Because...
Does these give you any ideas or remind you of responses you know of at your institution?
Do you know of other efforts like this? [Share a story directly on the site](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/collect/) or just reply here.
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/share-an-extraordinary-story-of-an-educator-response-to-covid-19/19/6 "2020-06-24T05:22:38Z")
We’ve collected a _few_ more stories, there’s room for a lot more. We are poised to see a flow soon of ones written in Spanish (more on that later). The site is open to anyone who has taken on the challenge of changing up their teaching in any way as a response to the effects of covid-19 on learning.
Need examples? Look for the newest ones at [https://splot.ca/extraordinary/](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/) and if/when you are ready, share yours via the form at [https://splot.ca/extraordinary/collect/](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/collect/)
Here are a few new ones:
> **[numb - a short film by liv mcneil](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/467/)**
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> A beautiful student created short film about this time.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkbd6hRkXo
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> Let her describe it.
> This is just a generalization of the feeling of isolation, not my personal feelings, I for sure haven't been enjoying...
> **[FotoFika 2020 Covid 19 Teaching Resources](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/389/)**
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> During the March 2020 closure of university art classes, photographer and professor Betsy Schneider posted a call on Facebook titled "Falling Forward" (a copy is available on the FotoFika site) urging a collaborative approach to teaching photography...
> **[Online class from Nepal during Covid 19](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/386/)**
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> Hello everybody ,
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> It's me Bibas Thapa from Hetauda, Nepal. Here I am sharing about my online class.
> On 24th April 2020 , Nepal government declared lockdown. All the institutions were closed. It was time of final exam. Students even could not...
> **[The Phylo Trading Card Game DIY Home School Activity](https://splot.ca/extraordinary/story/451/)**
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> Mixing the ideas of a card based game with digital media, this series of activity is built on David Ng's creation The Phylo Trading Card Game that makes for an ideal learning activity to do under lockdown.
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> The game itself in itself was based on Ng's...