On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, N.Bowskill wrote:
> What you need is a different colour pen. How about a flourescent gold
> one ?
I've got a nice gold pen in my drawer but I think our Audio-Visual Services
would be a bit pissed off if I used it on their whiteboards (its permanent).
> Slightly more seriously, it is having the effect of making you
> re-think the appropriacy of your strategy in your context so thats a
> good thing.
Not really, I just know that most people can't read half of what I write
(especially if I use red which is, surprise, surprise, the colour of
whiteboard markers that are always left in the stationary cupboard). I
just assume that they do what I did when I was an undergraduate - either
write down useful things that the lecturer _says_ (usually you can spot
these 'cos he writes them on the whiteboard - even if you can't read it)
or sit at the back playing battleships or reading Byte (if the lecture
was, er, less than enthralling and/or there was someone at the front
taking note/using a dictaphone).
In fact the last point is much like the strategy many institutions are
adopting with IT (to bring it back to an Elib-ish slant again); paper
over the inadequacies of the provided infrastructure by encouraging the
students to provide their own resources. Why pay for a load of expensive
networked teaching labs when you can just network the Halls and get the
students to buy the computers, software, etc. After all, >50% of them
have the gear anyway (trust me on this; I was a subwarden for three years
and there are lots of student rooms with a PC in the corner). Which also
means that you move a bit of the library (the electronic bit) into the
study bedroom. No bad thing in my opinion but I know others who'll
disagree.
Luckily here we've got lots of teaching labs available 24hrs/day _and_
the Halls are being networked so looks like we'll get the best (and maybe
the worst?) of both worlds.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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Jon "Jim'll" Knight, Researcher, Sysop and General Dogsbody, Dept. Computer
Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Leics., ENGLAND. LE11 3TU.
* I've found I now dream in Perl. More worryingly, I enjoy those dreams. *
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