Back to school
Classes started today. So far I've written three scary drabbles and constructed a fantasy map for a fantasy world with wizards, unicorns and pirates. Also have an assignemnt to write one story and a bunch of poems/drabbles for Wednesday. Also am reading The Golden Compass, next up Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, then Coraline. All in English.
This looks to be a great semester. :)
[ETA. Ugh. People.
Until now we've had a pretty paper-free environment. We put our assignments in folders at Dropbox which are available to everyone in that class. Those who'd rather have printed versions, print for themselves. It's worked very well and as far as I knew everyone seemed to like it.
Now, we have a guest teacher from the US. He wants us to hand our stories in printed, enough for the whole class. We are told our assignments on Monday and are to hand out our stories in the next class, Wednesday, or as last resort, on the next Monday to be discussed on that day or the following Wednesday. He obviously isn't used to the paper free environment, he said he'd never had so many people using laptops to write in class. We told him about the Dropbox arrangement which would allow us to hand them in outside the times we meet in class, thus giving us more time to read and prepare. He seemed to misunderstand because he said he was worried people would then forget to print them out for the others to read. Well, yeah, that's the idea of Dropbox, no waste of paper or money. If you write a 10 page story that's 180 pages to print for just one week. That adds up over time. And since we agreed to do a Dropbox folder as well, printing, to me, seems redundant.
I asked in our Facebook group if maybe we should explain the Dropbox arrangement better to him and although many agreed one person in the group starts accusing me of not respecting his teaching methods. What? I disagree, say we're talking about the reading part not his teaching. She repeats her words then says, "Me and a few others signed up to learn from someone with a different approach..." WTF? Because I obviously signed up to argue about printing? Are you kidding me? Whether we read stuff from paper or a screen has nothing to do with respecting or disrespecting his teaching methods, it's just a question of practicality. A question I thought we should address and he can decide on. I'm fine with debating different opinions on why printing might be a good or bad idea but I'm definitely NOT fine with her turning this into a US vs. YOU war, like I'm not taking the class seriously because I don't want to waste money on unnecessary printing. And then she ends her comment with, "I won't debate this any more. Over and out." So unless I want to come across as bitchy and unable to let go I have to let her very unfair us vs. you comment stand as it is, unanswered. Thanks a lot. *rolls eyes*]
This looks to be a great semester. :)
[ETA. Ugh. People.
Until now we've had a pretty paper-free environment. We put our assignments in folders at Dropbox which are available to everyone in that class. Those who'd rather have printed versions, print for themselves. It's worked very well and as far as I knew everyone seemed to like it.
Now, we have a guest teacher from the US. He wants us to hand our stories in printed, enough for the whole class. We are told our assignments on Monday and are to hand out our stories in the next class, Wednesday, or as last resort, on the next Monday to be discussed on that day or the following Wednesday. He obviously isn't used to the paper free environment, he said he'd never had so many people using laptops to write in class. We told him about the Dropbox arrangement which would allow us to hand them in outside the times we meet in class, thus giving us more time to read and prepare. He seemed to misunderstand because he said he was worried people would then forget to print them out for the others to read. Well, yeah, that's the idea of Dropbox, no waste of paper or money. If you write a 10 page story that's 180 pages to print for just one week. That adds up over time. And since we agreed to do a Dropbox folder as well, printing, to me, seems redundant.
I asked in our Facebook group if maybe we should explain the Dropbox arrangement better to him and although many agreed one person in the group starts accusing me of not respecting his teaching methods. What? I disagree, say we're talking about the reading part not his teaching. She repeats her words then says, "Me and a few others signed up to learn from someone with a different approach..." WTF? Because I obviously signed up to argue about printing? Are you kidding me? Whether we read stuff from paper or a screen has nothing to do with respecting or disrespecting his teaching methods, it's just a question of practicality. A question I thought we should address and he can decide on. I'm fine with debating different opinions on why printing might be a good or bad idea but I'm definitely NOT fine with her turning this into a US vs. YOU war, like I'm not taking the class seriously because I don't want to waste money on unnecessary printing. And then she ends her comment with, "I won't debate this any more. Over and out." So unless I want to come across as bitchy and unable to let go I have to let her very unfair us vs. you comment stand as it is, unanswered. Thanks a lot. *rolls eyes*]