rcmzone

May 21st 1957 EST

I remember when I was in high school, summer school was a dirty word (OK, it’s two words and it really wasn’t dirty…).  It probably meant you didn’t do your job during the year so you had to give up your precious time off to catch up.  Now as a college instructor, I want to go to summer school.  It means a few extra dollars and that can’t do anything but help with the cost of energy soaring and other bills that need to be paid.  My status is still up in the air as there needs to be at least 20 learners in the class before a full time faculty member can teach the class.  There are currently 17 in the class but the 20 being a hard and fast rule means it currently is a no go for me and I’m not holding my breath (it’s over two weeks before class starts I’d be way past blue if I held my breath!). 

Leaving the personal impact of summer school to the professional one.  I found last summer that the quality of community college summer school learners tends to be slightly better than those in regular semesters.  Why?  Well, the logical answer can be developed from my above comment, they wanna be there! As a speech teacher I also find some learners come to their home institution to take the dreaded public speaking class.  So we get learners from a variety of colleges and universities which makes for a nice mix.

So I am sitting on pins and needles (now that’s a pain in the you know what!!) waiting to find out if enough students will enroll in the class to see if it’s a go.  I’ll keep you posted.

One of the concepts of education is to use what your learners are using.  If your learners are using blogs, then you as an educator should use them to teach.  I have found several places that are useful for this and this forum is one.  I hope to learn more about blogging from actually doing it.  I’ve been a journal keeper from time to time and believe this is a neat place to go to have people actually read what I write.  Although I’ve been somewhat reluctant to let others read my musings.  I guess I am somewhat concerned about what they will think.  Now with strangers reading, I guess it doesn’t matter what they think.  So write on…

This is the initial, but hopefully not the last post to this blog.  I discovered, or should I say was introduced to, blogs at a recent conference.  I am trying my hand at these in the hope to use them for a class (or classes) in the fall semester.

More to come…

rcmjr

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