I’ve been super busy this evening.
My day got off to a terrible start when 2 minutes before an online ethics class my Internet went out. I used 4G on my iPad to post an apology and that I had to cancel the class. I wasn’t set up to run Zoom on 4G, and I don’t know how long it would have taken me to download the client and get everything running. This was the class I had to cancel last week as well due to the ISO meeting I was in at the time, so the 4 students in this timeslot have now missed out 2 weeks in a row. It’s the first time since I started that I’ve had Internet issues during a class.
The outage was a scheduled maintenance window, as I discovered by looking it up. It could have occurred at any time between 7am and 3pm, though of course it happened right before my lesson was due to begin at 10am. After the net came back on half an hour later, I contacted the students to offer a make-up class at the same time tomorrow. Three of the four said they could make it, so I’ll be doing it then.
I mostly worked on Darths & Droids writing today. I’m very short on buffer and need to get more strips written for the next week.
This evening I had two more ethics classes, and in between I made sourdough and cooked dinner, and dealt with some student feedback on the image processing assessment task that I marked last week. That was quite a job, which I won’t go into further here. Let me just say that I thought I got off lightly during Monday’s tutorial session, when most of the students logged out after about an hour, so I didn’t have much to do for the next 2 hours – but now I’ve definitely earned my pay from the university this week. I also have a couple of outstanding requests for assistance in coding up some of the project work for the next assessment task, from two different teams.. I didn’t have time to get to that tonight, so will have to do it tomorrow morning as well.
New content today:
I don’t know your setup (or the Australian infrastructure involved). Here in New York, I’d tether my computer to my phone and Zoom away. (I was set up to do that when I was hosting/monitoring sessions for CoNZealand in NZ … from New York.) No need to download a new client.
Yeah, I could have done that, but I didn’t think of it in time, because it’s not something I ever normally do. In fact it was only afterwards when I was complaining to friends that one of them suggested that, and I went, “Oh, of course!”