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April 26, 2005
tj 308: week 14
technology twists around & surprises us; five years ago i'd never e-mailed anything to a student in my life. today molly was collecting drafts so she could get them back to students with comments by thursday so that they could revise them for next tuesday, & kevin pulled one out of his bag & said "oh, but i'm not going to be here thursday, so..." her first response, while he was still shuffling, was "well, i can e-mail it to you." in those five years we've gotten awfully accustomed to this. kevin's hard-copy, however, wasn't going to work well w/that now-reflexive action.
they solved the problem easily--he works on campus, and suggested that she use campus mail to get the hard copy from our office to his, so he could pick it up when he got back into town on friday, & she agreed to read it first so she could get it into campus mail tomorrow.
the moment of hesitation, though, & the to-both-of-them puzzling reversal of the computer-geek young economics major with a piece of paper & an in many ways old-school prof with an already-become-instinctive expectation for electronic communication was priceless.
Posted by ttobryan at April 26, 2005 04:29 PM