It’s Thursday, about one month into the season of Spring, and it’s 41 deg (F) where I live in Ohio (but the sun is out at least)
I’m going to start including the link to the daily “10 Things You Need to Know Today” list published by The Week. It’s a good, quick, balanced overview of the big stories of the day.
Here’s the link to today’s “My Paper.li:”
The Ed Tech Emergent Daily, Thursday, April 16th
https://paper.li/e-1584814795#/ You can bookmark this link!
On the National Calendar front today, I’ll start with some eye candy that we all could use right about how:

These “national days,” like everything else about our lives today, we view through our new “pandemic paradigm” These two, both celebrated today, are a case in point of “yea” and “nay”:

(at least for those of us not on the “front lines” of the crisis)

Think of all the COVID germs those smiling kids could be sharing!
Food-wise, it’s Eggs Benedict day.
An especially for small business owners, who got terrible news today, it’s Get to Know Your Customers Day.

To close with a particularly apt and important one for these times of serious illness:

The website to view for resources about these important decisions is found at The Conversation Project. Here’s what they have posted right now at the top of their home page:
