This year because of all the hullabaloo we had to do something different with students' end-of-term speeches and decided they could either a) record their speeches at home and bring in the video for everyone to watch silently in class or b) perform their speeches live wearing a mask and within the safety bubbles specially prepared for those of us who have to do public speaking like teachers and animal trainers. Every single student chose to do the video and at first I thought man is this going to be a drag having all these kids sitting there quietly and watching themselves on the screen giving pre-recorded speeches on topics like the environment and the electoral college and The Importance of Carrots to Geopolitical Stability. It turns out it wasn't a drag at all at least not to the kids who were used to watching themselves on various apps and everyone watched with a benign smile as each student solved the world's problems with wit and humor in four to five PowerPoint slides while I stood up front in my bubble providing the canned laughter.
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