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January 19, 2010
A new year is upon us...
Well, a new semester. We start up tomorrow, and just to greet the returning students - fresh snow! It was so warm here last week that everything melted off except in places where snow plows had pushed it into deep piles - everything was muddy, just like March. Not Geneva at its prettiest. But this morning we start with a nice inch of snow. I don't think we'll get much more than 2 or 3, but what do I know? I'm a Southerner!
I've been running around in circles getting this term started - I've already had enough meetings for my taste, and I have 3 more scheduled this week: Budget Advisory Task Force today and then a Review I committee and Library Committee tomorrow. Then Thursday both my classes have their first meetings. I am moderately ready - I think I could print the syllabi now, but I left them to marinate on my desk overnight and we'll see if I still feel happy about them later today.
Much to my horror I found out when I sat down at the computer that the last time I taught these two, Greek and Islamic, we were still mainly using slides. Neither course is just sitting there with usable lectures on the server. Of course i have the slide sheets from previous iterations, but it's a lot more work that I thought I wasn't going to have to do for daily class prep. The good part is that we've acquired a LOT of new images since 2007 in both areas, particularly of Islamic architecture, so I would have been integrating those anyway.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at January 19, 2010 7:16 AM