creating course content...
 

Working hard, finishing off the last of the course content for the new class I'm teaching this term. Still need to go back and write exam questions, but I've been taking notes for what I want to ask as I go along.

Unfortunately, I'm creating in a web form/html editor interface, I had a good chunk on the apache2 config file structure for plain old hosting as well as name based virtual hosts and the cat stepped on the F5 key of my keyboard... which reloaded the page, loosing all of my edits. :mad:

Hardest part I think is creating the lab exercises, testing the instructions, and doing a good job of grading those submissions. Remembering to include all of the stuff that comes as second nature but not being so precise as to just spoon feed it to them so they zombie their way thru it copy/pasting directions.

Anyone else teach?

No I don't teach but I think that you should get rid of the cat and get a dog.....

Throw in a multiple choice test RE: Kim Kardashian.

rjp

Cat got up on the keyboard to get away from the dog :D

Cat did it on purpose.

Oh, MIL STD 1379D.

I have had a lot of ****ty professors, and a couple really good ones.
Grading labs are usually done best if the reports show some sort of knowledge of the key concepts of what you taught.

Exams are a niche of each prof's personality. The best exams I had were made from the actual homework. Watch it sounds too easy, but take into the account that you have maybe 200 homework problems from that section of material that you will be testing. People will still fail it.

Lastly don't be that guy that gives "busy work"..... People have other classes to go to. ;)

I teach.
It's summer so I don't want to think about it!
(42 paid working days off! Yay!)

I teach as well - corporate now but did univ work... TAs and LAs can be a God send! Get yourself one - a dime a dozen!

Yep, I taught U.S. History for 40 years and retired in 2010. I understand our brother from Calgary in not wanting to think about it during vacation, but what I don't understand is he gets 42 paid days off! Here, and I believe in most of the U.S., summer vacation, weekends, spring/winter breaks, are all unpaid, contrary to what many of my non-teaching friends thought. That's 42 days without a paycheck so I learned to save, very early on.

It is a pretty good gig for an aging tradesman.
No denying that. The conditions that we work in are good, facilities are very nice.
I did take a pretty big hit in wages coming out of the field and this kind of evens things up.

The first year was not fun. I had no teaching experience and only the standard curriculum and some old exams to set the course content and to re invent the existing labs so they could be graded fairly across the board. In the first four months I took two days off and worked 10-12 hours a day.

I enjoy the job. I have learned more about my field, about people and about myself in the last 4 years. Perhaps it is me that is really getting the education here.

I hope that your are enjoying your retirement, LJ. Do you miss teaching?