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First-time adjustments
Ah, the first time teaching a course, and you have to shift everything around … Some students in my on-line course ordered the books from Barnes and Noble, which didn’t have them in stock. So, inevitably, that was the book that we start in the second week of the course. So, its being an on-line […]
A personal touch
Because I’m paranoid about technical problems, I’ve been trying to call all my students in my distance-learning course as I can, and I’m discovering something—I’m learning some stuff about the course that’s entirely unrelated to technical problems, as students read the syllabus and ask me questions they may not have if they only had e-mail […]
Classes begin
I’ve started my first distance-learning course this semester and had the orientation session with most of the registered students on Saturday. They seem a nice bunch, and apart from the complete lack of tech support to show them the system—and except for the fact that most of them didn’t have the proper net access—it worked […]
Overload
I am in the middle of the week from Heck (as Dilbert would put it). Yesterday, I began listing my tasks for the week and squeezed in everything I had to do, barely … and then realized there were two huge projects (finishing a chapter and working with a set of data I should've had […]
Saturday, again
By Sherman Dorn on August 31, 2002
I’m in my office again this afternoon, working on some data that came to me late. I’ve been cleaning it up and getting it in shape to pass to the next person in line to use it. I need to get it done both to help the project director involved and also to get it […]
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