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January 21, 2005
tj 308: week 1
1st day of class: loved the desk-(opposite-of)-piracy, didn't mind the chaos, & felt a little weird about there being only one front-of-the-room chair in both classrooms (ridiculously small 204 & 227) & me being in it--did becky do that strategically because i'm the TA, or because she wanted to sit and watch b/c i've seen her lead the room but she's never seen me, or just b/c she had the option of sitting down in the room to check out the perspective? i should ask--but not for long, b/c there were things to do & i knew how to do them, so i didn't worry about it.
it did feel good when one of the students e-mailed me a question that evening about the assignment, b/c i felt like he was convinced--i was ask-able.
day 2 & not being there i'm not so happy about. she left some xeroxed notes in my mailbox that i haven't looked at yet, & said everything went fine, but i missed it. & i don't know how to build--from notes & maybe some work left on blackboard--on what went on in the real live room. it's like subbing. only it's going to be like subbing every other day all semester, & i'm going to have to find ways to feel less left out--without having much time for catching up, because i don't have it.
right now, i feel completely out of the loop. i've intercepted no more e-mailed questions. i haven't reviewed enough uploaded assignments on Bb (and i need to--that's one of my weekend projects, probably every weekend, but it's also something i should have done between tuesday and thursday to be ready for what happened even when i wasn't there for it). and i haven't had time to talk to becky about any of the details. so it's really, right now, like it's her class, and i sat in & introduced the software on day 1. or at least that's what it feels like to me.
collaboration with a twist. & right now while i love the idea of collaboration, i'm not sure how much the twist is going to skew it out of functionality.
Posted by ttobryan at January 21, 2005 02:31 PM