I’m sitting in on a colleague’s class on digital video this quarter. Not just any colleague, though—it’s Weez. It’s fun to be on the other side of the room for a change, listening to someone else talk. We’ve got very different styles, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things that I can learn from watching her teach.
She’s already made me laugh with some of her slide titles. The one we’re looking at right now, for example, is on bandwidth and other technical topics. The title of the slide is “The hard stuff: Size matters”. The students didn’t even crack a smile when it appeared, alas. First day of class, they haven’t yet gotten a sense of what the classroom protocols are, and most of them probably don’t know Weez well enough to know that the humor was intentional.
With the exception of me, the students are sitting behind computer screens but not using them—they’re focused on her, because they care about what she’s telling them. (This is not to say that I don’t care…simply that I’m distracted by having to prep for my 12:00 class, which follows hers in this same classroom.
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