virtual visits – Page 4 – Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Green Forest Int./Middle School AR

Thank you, Vicki Brown, for sending these awesome photos. I love seeing what a virtual visit looked like from the other side!

Trapped in Hitler’s Web, Jan 23 event

Marta Czurylowicz did a wonderful job of moderating this virtual book event, or should I say events? It was supposed to be a single presentation but in order to reduce the audience size we did two back to back presentations. The questions were very interesting! I was thrilled to find out that Marta received an autographed copy of Hope’s War from her mother as a gift twenty years ago and receiving that book was one of the reasons she decided to go into journalism. That makes me so happy! Many thanks to Tania Onyschuk of Koota Ooma who organized the virtual event, and the Shevchenko Scientific Society for hosting the webinar. Thanks also to TWUC and the Canada Council for funding.

Virtual visit, classroom style

I virtually visited with Emily Stowe Public School in Norwich Ontario today and it was nice to be back. The last time I was here was in the winter of 2019 when the pandemic was not in our lexicon.

This was the first time I’ve visited with in-class students (ie, instead of each student logging in from home) since the beginning of the pandemic and it felt like a step towards normal. Thanks for the great questions, everyone!

Author visits while in isolation

It’s such a different way of life for all of us right now, as we all work together to stop the spread of COVID-19. It’s an especially difficult challenge for students and teachers who can only meet via screen for now. This spring was going to be a busy one for me, filled with lots of school visits and award events but everything has been canceled. There’s been one bright glimmer, though. Scholastic Book Fairs has been able to organize some Zoom visits, with students and teachers participating from home. I did two of these recently, one on Friday with Solar Prep in Dallas, and another today, with St. Laurence School in Sugar Land Texas.

What is Wonder Bread? Virtual visiting with students of Waukon IA

It was such a pleasure to have three one hour Skype sessions with Waukon students, each about a different novel in my WWII trilogy. My favorite question of the day? Why was the bread called Wonder Bread in Stolen Girl!