It's been five years since Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans. In all that time -- nearly two-thousand dead, half the population gone, the city still a festering skeleton of itself -- only two people were blamed for anything: Sal and Mabel Mangano.
I'm just highlighting all of this, so you can see how it works better.
I guess the answer is that I'm doing fine.
Then again, the language is authentic, and it certainly expresses important information about accountability (or lack thereof)
It depends on what you mean," Mr. Cobb answered. "If you mean how am I doing after losing my house and every fucking thing in it, and after being forced to live in a two-bedroom shithole with my wife and two kids and being told how lucky I am to get it, and after being fucked -
I probably should have issued a language warning on this part. It can be a little raw.
By Tom Junod Sep 9, 200
Tom Junod has been one of my favorite authors . . . for forever. This story, originally published in 2007, still haunts me.
I'm in a zoom course now with through a major institution and the prof is highly respected in his field. Now I'm doing it for fun as I have my PhD so it's a fun learning opportunity (no I don't really have the time for this.) The syllabus is such a mess I can't quite figure out what readings are due, and the numbers of readings don't match the number of classes. The lectures so far are three weeks behind the readings. (It's only lecture). Questions from students in the chat are never addressed, or the prof will read them at the end of the class and say they'll be answered next week and they're not. The lectures basically go through the text that we read, reading paragraphs as a way of explaining the paragraph, basically allowing the prof to make the connections in his head without articulating those connections to us. It was my professional development money and the topic is interesting but I certainly question how well that money was spen
This one caught my attention, regarding professional development and best practices
Our university paid to have 5 “experts” teach us how to teach online. It was awful. I have a great relationship with a director of a R1 teaching and learning center. I sent her what they were giving us and she was floored we paid for that garbage. It was mandatory attendance, M-F from 9-12 this past June. I got so little done in June because of it.
another one
I spent $800 of my own money on an advanced online pedagogy course through a very well known consortium. It was the worst thing I had ever experienced. The instructor never gave feedback and only assigned peer critiques. So, I paid to have others who probably know less than I do provide feedback while the instructor, who is purportedly an expert in online learning, does absolutely nothing. It was actually a great learning experience regarding instructor presence and feedback requirements in online environments. I'm a much better instructor because this so called expert was a lazy d-bag.
This one was particularly damning of an online pedagogy course.
Posted byu/calmbythewaterNTT faculty, Nursing, R223 hours ago2On the other side .t3_ljaqys ._2FCtq-QzlfuN-SwVMUZMM3 { --postTitle-VisitedLinkColor: #9b9b9b; --postTitleLink-VisitedLinkColor: #9b9b9b; } I'm a professor taking a course at another college. It has been a bit eye opening to say the least. Asynchronous online 8 week course.
There are a lot of replies here, that speak to the present state of professional development courses