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I really should have written something before
now. But this semester is turning out to
be more day-to-day work than I anticipated, considering I am teaching mostly
on-line classes and not face-to-face, to accommodate being out of the classroom
for effectively two weeks. Of course, it
was supposed to be entirely on-line,
with no face-to-face, but early in
the summer I was told we must offer at least one f2f section of the World Civ survey for incoming
freshmen. And that means I’m not
entirely out of the classroom this semester, which would have been weird
anyway. I have a plan to cover the
material during the period of my absence, so everything’s hunky-dory
there.
Nevertheless, in typical Absent-minded Professor
fashion, in anticipation of an “easier” semester, I had already decided to put
all that “free time” to good use in much-needed overhauls of two of my classes …
and that’s turning out to be more complicated in the case of one of them than I
really expected. It’s amazing how much
of my material throughout the semester is integrated – content, exercises, and
so forth – so that changing something here
necessitates adjusting something there
… and there … and there … and discovering that to do this at some point later in the semester
necessitates me having done that
sometime earlier to properly set it up.
No wonder you hear the tales of the older professors whose lecture notes
haven’t changed in forty years!
