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This summer’s work is well underway. In addition to working on the
\ndissertation (a rough chapter draft scraped together by July 20?) and CCC Online Archive<\/a><\/i>, I am teaching
\nan online section of HU211 (Intro to Humanities) for old U. and holding down one
\nof three seats as a mentor for new online instructors. This is the first
\nsummer in several years where I’m teaching just one course. For five or
\nsix years in a row, I’ve taught two. The mentoring gig feels a small
\namount lighter to me than teaching a course. Fewer email exchanges, and
\nthe interactions with the instructors are highly professional, responsive, and
\ncollegial. The twist–always a twist?–is that the mentorship pairings shape up
\nacross the disciplines, so even though I am not formally trained in economics or
\npsychology, the instructors I am working with are teaching courses in those
\nareas: Principles of Microeconomics and Introduction to Guidance and Counseling.
\nOf course, my purpose is not so much to pose as a content expert as it is to
\nlisten, share samples of various teaching documents, announcements, reminders,
\nrubrics for assigning grades to the stuff that turns up in threaded discussions,
\nand lend a hand with other administrative aspects of teaching online (in
\neCollege, following old U.’s procedural standards as relate to the handling of
\nproctored exams, submissions of attendance, and so on). I also fill out a
\nperiodic, formative evaluation of sorts and check in on the exchanges taking
\nshape in a discussion forum where instructors new and old from across the
\ndisciplines chime in with whatever is on their minds (not surprisingly, some of
\nentries include laments that the students can’t write or that
\nthey–h0rr0r!–plagiarize). Woe, the ongoing disenchantment with student prose.\n<\/p>\n

All of this in addition to the travel (Detroit for C&W, Phoenix for camp,
\nMichigan for my in-laws’ 50th anniversary) and the cross-town move (coming up)
\naccumulates to suggest that I don’t have to worry about that fatigue (and
\nblisters) that might otherwise accompany weeks and months of twiddling my
\nthumbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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