I’ve had a post in process for over a week now, but with all the preparations for the new semester, it sits there, alone, uncared for, bereft of my attention.  There seems to be times where I put heaps of effort into things and other things get neglected.  It’s strange, because I do this to try to spread the load, so that I’m all prepared for the semester and things will run smoothly, but no matter how hard I try, I’m always playing catch-up for the 13 weeks of the semester.

I know one reason for this: my tendancy to try to use the latest and the greatest[1].  I get caught up in learning.  It’s the one thing that sustains what I do.  I’m sometimes surprised that my students aren’t so enamoured of learning.  Some of them seem downright averse to it.  “Give me the facts that I need to pass the exam!”[2]  Why just the exam? Why just the facts?  What about the process, the personal growth that comes from interacting with new ideas?  Why do these not seem important?

Which reminds me, I must submit that abstract on Gen-Y and technology[3].

1. okay, maybe greatest isn’t necessarily true – eg Blackboard [↩]
2. This is not quite a direct quote, but I don’t like using that many exclamation points. [↩]
3. Tentatively titled: Teaching the chorus to sing. [↩]