::grin:: Aw, you know how to make a girl smile. :)
I was training some students on how to support our classroom technology today, and I reassured them that our in-room systems are very easy to use. "We designed them so that faculty could use them," I said. They laughed, but then I elaborated that faculty already have more-than-full-time jobs teaching, so it would be unfair to expect them to spend even more time learning about technology. That's our job. That's why we work to make technology easy to use, and to make the system for getting what they need as transparent and flawless as possible.
I elaborated that faculty already have more-than-full-time jobs teaching
Even though I had a high school teacher for a mother, I didn't fully appreciate this until I taught full-time myself. Sure we "get summers off," but you know what I'm doing with mine? Professional development (learning differential calculus w/ my old roommate jethereal), cleaning and maintaining the lab (lab techs should be doing this but we don't have enough), fighting IT for computers that aren't 8+ year-old hand-me-downs, picking a new textbook, revising course syllabi yet again, learning how to teach w/ WebCT, and possibly working on a NASA grant (if they ever tell me whether I got it or not, but last year they funded around 2/3 of applicants and our grants officer told me mine was really good). That's "relaxation" for me.
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I was training some students on how to support our classroom technology today, and I reassured them that our in-room systems are very easy to use. "We designed them so that faculty could use them," I said. They laughed, but then I elaborated that faculty already have more-than-full-time jobs teaching, so it would be unfair to expect them to spend even more time learning about technology. That's our job. That's why we work to make technology easy to use, and to make the system for getting what they need as transparent and flawless as possible.
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Even though I had a high school teacher for a mother, I didn't fully appreciate this until I taught full-time myself. Sure we "get summers off," but you know what I'm doing with mine? Professional development (learning differential calculus w/ my old roommate