Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Inquiring minds wanna know


     OK, I'M OUT with a messed up back. Plus I’m on sabbatical.
     Did anyone attend the Chancellor’s opening session down at Saddleback College this morning? Let us know what happened, if anything. (Anything about ATEP? The two colleges are seriously at odds over that benighted facility.)
     And how did the Faculty Association (faculty union) luncheon/gabfest go? Any fireworks re the proposed faculty contract? Did Ray or Sharon or Sherry show up? Any St. John Knits? Did Sherry look like a traffic cone? Were there students on the lawn doing "Wicca" anthropology labs?)
     Any word about the State Chancellor’s “audit”? (Evidently, it was an electronic affair.)
     Did anybody show up at the IVC CAFÉ opening(s)? Any fireworks over the failure of the invite to mention adjuncts (or anyone else beyond administrators and full-timers)? Any clarity about what they're gonna do with that space?
     (I just remembered something: months ago, a friend reported to me that administrators visited the MRC and found that all of the students were on Facebook and YouTube. Ooooh. Maybe that did it.)
     Let us know what you saw, heard.
     Spill!

UPDATE (9:10 p.m.):
Sherry and some joker
     I suppose all (full-time) faculty got the email that I did—from Ray and the DOGs (disgruntled Old Guardsters). It says that "the SOCCCDFA leadership has decided to return to the negotiating table to address the inequities in the proposed contract."
     So, did something happen at the luncheon today?

UPDATE (9:25 p.m.):
Recent comments:

Anonymous 1 said...
OMG, faculty gone wild! FYI [who is “you”?] my students use Facebook and YouTube for assignments. Recommend you [again, who is “you”?] go to the New Media in the Classroom session during in service. IVC has a Facebook profile as well.
—7:23 PM, August 16, 2011
Anonymous 2 said...
You [“You” again] may be right. Let a student get away with viewing Facebook or YouTube and you have anarchy. Those darn students, always trying to bring their social media into our ivory castle. Off with their heads! That is almost as bad as blogging.
—8:35 PM, August 16, 2011
Anonymous 3 said...
I think that writing off the social media tools as having no place in the lab is a mistake. For one thing, this is how students are living now — those are the tools they use to communicate. Savvy teachers know this and take advantage of it to find another way to connect with their students. An old fart administrator walking by on a tour who hasn't been in the classroom in decades shouldn't be making decisions based on his mistaken belief that using social media is akin to goofing off. Embrace the new technology or lose the student to an institution that gets it. Time for an overhaul in admin.
—8:54 PM, August 16, 2011
Anonymous 4 said...
...and an old fart administrator lacking any knowledge or expertise in the programs he's meddling with, having spent his entire career within academia, but somehow believing he knows better than the faculty in all matters.
—9:09 PM, August 16, 2011
Two points:
1. Commenters are assuming rather much here. I was repeating a story from a reliable friend, but it is entirely possible that the “administrators” did more than simply notice that students were logged onto Facebook and YouTube. I have no details and neither do commenters (apparently).
2. Who is this “you” that some commenters are writing to? I can only assume that they are referring to me. But I (i.e., Roy Bauer) did not view the students on Facebook/YouTube, nor did I judge their activity to be a problem. I reported that (according to a story) some administrators were troubled by what they found. Good grief. This is a college blog. Read more carefully!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good Lord! Haven't you heard?

Anonymous said...

OMG, faculty gone wild! FYI my students use Facebook and YouTube for assignments. Recommend you go to the New Media in the Classroom session during in service. IVC has a Facebook profile as well.

Anonymous said...

You may be right. Let a student get away with viewing Facebook or YouTube and you have anarchy. Those darn students, always trying to bring their social media into our ivory castle. Off with their heads! That is almost as bad as blogging.

Anonymous said...

I think that writing off the social media tools as having no place in the lab is a mistake. For one thing, this is how students are living now — those are the tools they use to communicate. Savvy teachers know this and take advantage of it to find another way to connect with their students. An old fart administrator walking by on a tour who hasn't been in the classroom in decades shouldn't be making decisions based on his mistaken belief that using social media is akin to goofing off. Embrace the new technology or lose the student to an institution that gets it. Time for an overhaul in admin.

Anonymous said...

...and an old fart administrator lacking any knowledge or expertise in the programs he's meddling with, having spent his entire career within academia, but somehow believing he knows better than the faculty in all matters.

Anonymous said...

I walked by the MRC and didn't see anyone but the regulars. The new guard.

Anonymous said...

I went to the opening session. The only be-knighting going on was the faculty service awards. You were be-knighted with a 25 year service pin! sir bvt. "service pins, we don't need no stinkin service pins."

Roy Bauer said...

That's right.

Anonymous said...

"An electronic affair?"

Roy Bauer said...

It didn't involve actual persons visiting the campus. All done with data.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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