Talk to the Hand
Posted in School on 10/13/2007 11:33 pm by enjanerdUf. I just checked the timetables for next semester to see what was available on the list of online classes. The only course requirement that I can fill that I haven’t already taken is taught by the same teacher I had for a class in undergrad.
It was one of my first distance learning classes. A professor had left the year before and hadn’t been replaced yet. So, they didn’t have anyone on campus to teach this course. The class met in a video conferencing room and the prof had a camera on him, a white board, and a pad of paper (with a camera pointed down on it). We, however, could only see one view at a time. Which meant that for the entire class, we watched his hand writing on a pad of paper. For 90 minutes, twice a week.
We had a camera pointed at us too, but he never saw when we tried to ask questions. So, my classmates took to reading magazines in class. You haven’t had fun until you’ve read Cosmo with a group of 20 engineers. Yeah. Fun.