Sorry for the sporadic posting the last few weeks. I am in a summer blog funk. It's not that I don't have anything to post about - perhaps the problem is that I have too much to post about and not enough time. Here are my excuses for not blogging regularly:
- Calculus students (four sections of calculus is probably too much for one instructor in a 10-week summer semester)
- Blackboard 8 issues (an annoying new gradebook, slow Java loading, and glitches that require you to use HTML instead of a WYSIWYG editor)
- Moving my office (finally my own office space, but it takes some work - see blog post here)
- Watching Season 4 of LOST (which I completely missed during the regular school year) and Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica
- Trying to learn Dreamweaver, Flash, and Blender
- Writing grants
- Nice weather
I will be going to three conferences in a few weeks: World Futures (DC), MathFest (Madison), and Distance Teaching & Learning (Madison). These should all be interesting (in different ways) and I will be blogging from the conferences.
My posting will continue to be sporadic until the semester is over. If you're still visiting this blog by a bookmark, you may just want to subscribe via a blog reader or email (see the right-hand side of the blog for information).
1 comments:
I had envisioned having a LOT more time than I actually do this summer! It's a bit more relaxed than during the semester, but not as much as I'd planned. In particular, I found that teaching only one statistics class (over 4 1/2 weeks) took up a lot of time -- silly me, when has teacher ever taken only the time I expect!
Have a great time at your conferences. I'd planned on going to Mathfest and it didn't work out, so I've feeling a little envious of everyone who is going. The Joint Meetings in DC in January still look doable, though!
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