Hi Donald, your experience really resonates with mine. I did all my early classes on Zoom, synchronously, and they went pretty well once we got used to it. I still have one Zoom class a week with the uni where I teach part time, but all my other classes at Nisseki have been face to face since early June. Like you I've kept up the benefits afforded by Google Classroom and all the other Google things (Forms, Docs, Sites). It's been nice having students around but they're pretty well distanced, which makes group work problematic, and I really miss seeing their faces! Obviously they're all masked up, as am I, so not ideal. Torrential rain over here so two or possibly even three days more cancelled classes. 2020, quite some year so far eh? Hope all's well with you all!

Hi Hayley, how do you and your students find Zoom? Presumably they're accessing it on mobiles. Any issues with that? As far as I can see I'll just be in a holding pattern, feeding my students preparation work ready for May's classes, assuming they have them. Working on a back up plan for that too!

Hi Hayley, thanks for posting! Not sure how many people follow the forum, so let's try to use it as a way of gauging outreach. For me, (1) current situation at my uni plan is the same as yours. On April 1st morning we had classes ready to go on the 4th, only to be cancelled until 7th May, with reduced classes, presumably making some up on the way and finishing in early August (test week). (2) There's been no discussion that I know of. I'm not on the Educational Affairs Committee, so they may have discussed but not had time to share yet. Anyway, apparently no discussion about our capacity or ability to do online classes. We can communicate with students through Line, email or through the school portal system. We have no learning system in place. I have Google sites for each of my classes, so if I need to go online I can use those and supplement them with video messages. We also have access to Google Classroom, though I'm not a big fan. Google sites, however, are really easy to set up and use. A bit limited in their functionality, but they'll do the job. (3) Interesting point. I guess this is the place to share our ideas. Materials? Maybe that's a section that we need to add to our website? Either way, this discussion is well-timed for us to put out a call and /or promote the forum in the next newsletter. Anyway, hope you're doing OK. Things are still pretty quiet in Hiroshima, imagine you're a few steps ahead of us in Yokohama!

Oh, and at some stage we need to reactivate the 2018 Conference Handbook link on the conference website. Or maybe it could be added to the Conference link on this site, in the form of an archive, similar to the nexus and Newsletter archives? Sorry about all the feedback. You did ask for it! Have a good night!

Thanks for adding the logo info. I'll try to find someone who can translate it. I'm sure you already know that the Officers' page and the Profiles need updating. I'm also wondering if we can get a generic 'Nursing English Nexus' page to appear in the Nexus menu, linking to the submission and guidelines. Eventually we need to bring everything under one roof, and this would be step in the right direction. Also need to make our bilingual pamphlet available for download. And while I'm here, please allow me to say what a fantastic job you're doing. Also just clicked on the newsletters. They look really good, very professional, very easy on the eye. We've come a long way in just two years. Let's go even further!!

I think it looks really good. Can't think of anything to add right now. The main thing is getting people to sign up to it, and then be active. Oh, and finding some way to transfer the archive over here. After that, maybe we can pretty much dispense with the Google site? Will go off and check again now, back in a minute.