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Date: May 13, 2005

Summer Room Assignments

Date: May 13, 2005

Why is this important?

Date: May 13, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Lurker
"Why is this important?"

I wondered about that too. But I was too embarassed to ask.

Date: May 13, 2005

Maybe to arrange the chairs in a circle. Maybe to make sure the room contains a lecture podium or a projection screen. But maybe not.

Date: May 13, 2005

What difference would it make three weeks before class? Don't they go in and clean and wax before classes start? My rooms were never the same from Tuesday to Thursday? I thought this was a puzzling topic, not sure why it matters.

Date: May 13, 2005

I would want to know about the room also. Some of the lecture rooms are primitive. I once wanted a small seminar room and was given a huge auditorium with terrible aucoustics. That virtually defeated the seminar format. I had to revert to a lecture format.

Date: May 13, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: LVN
"What difference would it make three weeks before class? Don't they go in and clean and wax before classes start? My rooms were never the same from Tuesday to Thursday? I thought this was a puzzling topic, not sure why it matters."

If you're going out of town until the summer session begins, and plan to prepare your course during that period, it would be helpful to know the room conditions. Especially for a novice instructor.

Date: May 13, 2005

if you are teaching a new class and debating whether, for example, to use PowerPoint slide shows, it will matter a lot

Date: May 13, 2005

PowerPoint presentations for the lectures with no equipment in the room, overheads and no projector or poor conditions to see it, or of you use a cart with equipment on it, it may matter if you are in the building your office is in or across campus (rain on the equipment, etc.). There are many valid reasons to know why.

Date: May 13, 2005

OK, sorry I said anything.

Date: May 13, 2005

No, LVN, what you said is "telling". Take the example of a couple of people that disagreed with the current administration. They were never given room assignments (0r given completely ignorant rooms as far as class size[35 - 55] in a class that held 20) and when semesters began - they were isolated completely away from their "home buildings" - for some weird reason, certain people were teaching all the way across campus while chairs etc. suddently complained that these people were 'never around" ---you'll see this isolation issue turning up in some current lawsuits.

Sorry LVN, probably where you weren't going with it, but I have friends who have suffered from this tactic.

Date: May 13, 2005

This won't be much of an issue in the COB this summer. The number of classes being taught will be down somewhat.