The job you were told couldn’t be done remotely can be done remotely.
as tweeted Marcus Gray LaPorte
The Covid-19 pandemic had taught and shown people a lot of things. One of it would be the reality and possibilities to work from home.
Digital transformation is not a luxury but a necessity. Catch up or left out.
Work From Home
In this new future, your office could be anywhere so long you could be in touch, engage and communicate.
For instance, sharing from Adrian Oh, founder of Zetpy on how they leverage on digital communication tool Zoom to carry on their business between different locations and timezone.
We have also seen organizations such as Toastmasters Club of Bukit Serdang sharing their experience in organizing virtual meeting, rather than conventional on premise gathering.
One thing in common for above 2 case studies are they both using this tool called Zoom. which has become one of the most in-demand software tools for the work-from-home economy.
According to Forbes article dated 13th March, 2020:
Zoom is far from the only tool standing to benefit from this trend. Analysts point to others like file-sharing service Dropbox, e-signatures business DocuSign and emergency communications business Everbridge as obvious fellow cloud companies that will likely see a boost in usage as the world moves even more online.
“I think after this crisis is over, people will realize that to work at home probably is not bad.”
Eric Yuan, CEO, Zoom
The Case of Education
Taylor’s University and Taylor’s College has announced that it will go virtual from 23 March until 19 April 2020 in an effort to improve social distancing and protect the well-being of its staff and students in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Heriot-Watt University Malaysia campus did their open day in the virtual world.
Home Schooling
Many kids are/will be schooling from home, here is an awesome list of ideas from a parent who homeschools.
Online resources:
- BrainPop
- Curiosity Stream
- Tynker
- Outschool
- Udemy
- iReady
- Beast Academy (Math)
- Khan Academy
- Creative Bug
- Discovery Education
YouTube Channels:
- Crash Course Kids
- Science Channel
- SciShow Kids
- National Geographic Kids
- Free School
- Geography Focus
- TheBrainScoop
- SciShow
- Kids Learning Tube
- Geeek Gurl Diaries
- Mike Likes Science
- Science Max
- SoulPancake
Lots of board games, library books (and Kindle), tinkering/upcycling with household junk, etc.
Some resources to help with kids at home:
- Scholastic has created a free learn-from-home site with 20+ days of learning and activities.
- Pretend to travel the world. Go on a virtual museum tour of these 12 famous museums.
- All In One Home School – A list of awesome free curriculum people use. Everything from preschool activities to 12th grade.
- List of thinking games by grade
More awesome free learning websites:
- https://www.starfall.com/h/
- https://www.abcya.com/
- https://www.funbrain.com/
- https://www.splashlearn.com/
- https://www.storylineonline.net/
- https://pbskids.org/
- https://www.highlightskids.com/
- https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
- https://www.coolmath4kids.com/
- http://www.mathgametime.com/
- https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/
- http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp
- http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/
- https://www.switchzoo.com/
- https://www.seussville.com/
- https://www.turtlediary.com/
- https://www.e-learningforkids.org/
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Connecting The Dots
It’s all about communications. Be it e-learning, work from home, online conference or virtual events, technology is making things more efficient and freeing up more resources for other useful purposes.
