Experimentation

The school year has just begun, and this time I’m trying something new.  It’s not new for most ‘big’ universities, but it is for me.  Yup, this morning I arrived to class armed with a microphone and a pen-tablet, and recorded the lecture for posterity.  What was recorded was my voice (and what could be heard from the students) and the desktop, where I used my rickety-old pen-table (mouse-tablet?  one of those wacom things which we bought when my hands first started acting up and I could hardly use a mouse) to fill in the power point slides with really really bad writing.

The big change for me was not walking around so much, and also not having whiteboard-pen leftovers on my hands.  The big change for students will be getting their hands on filled-out power-point slides.  Will this be the end of everything?  Will the students stop showing up?  Who knows!?!?  It’s at least a little different for me, and that’s always fun.  Also, it slows me down, because I can only write so fast with the pen-mouse-thingy.