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A Semester of Outfits

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Title (Dublin Core)

A Semester of Outfits

Description (Dublin Core)

I haven’t grown in height since junior high school, and, as a result, I have A LOT of clothes. As sort of a fun game for myself and my students, I do not repeat an outfit through the 180 days of the school year. When school shut down in March, I switched to permanently in joggers, since I no longer left the house. When we began synchronous Distance Learning in August, I knew it was really important for my mental health and to try and portray a sense of normalcy for my students to still dress just like I was going to teach in person in a normal year. Since I don’t get to see all my students five days a week due to our block scheduling format for Distance Learning, I decided to post my outfit to my class Instagram each day, as an “ootd,” just for fun. It’s become sort of an interesting keepsake of my pandemic experience. If you look beyond the outfits and into my eyes you can tell the days I was anxious, worried, tired about the rising case counts, the unknowns, the state of our country, and locally, the true fear of whether they would force us to return to teaching in person. But the pictures also capture that in between the ever rising death toll, wildfires, political discord, racial tension, Capitol riots, life had to keep moving forward. And even during a semester of turmoil, you can see a lot of pictures show joy behind my eyes... and not only when the Dodgers won the World Series, allowing me to retire my 1988 World Series shirt! A new semester starts today, we’ll see what the expression in my eyes says about the state of the pandemic and the world in the weeks to come.

Date (Dublin Core)

January 25, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Kathryn Jue

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Kathryn Jue

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Photographs
video

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Clothing & Accessories
English Social Media (including Memes)
English Education--K12
English Online Learning
English Emotion
English Conflict
English Sports

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

distance learning
teacher
Instagram
joggers
normalcy
anxiety
worry
tired
Capitol riot
wildfire
death toll
Dodgers
World Series
high school
fashion
Los Angeles
California

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

#covidteaches
teacher
distance learning
#ootd
first semester
high school
fashion

Collection (Dublin Core)

K-12
Mental Health

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

A tray that says "When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles".Disneyland Main Street After Closure Announcement
HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

01/25/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/01/2021
08/02/2022
09/15/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

01/25/2021

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on January 25, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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