Classroom Drama

Well, I am quite behind in my blog posts, so today you are going to be entertained by my attempts to catch up. It's a good thing I have a good memory about what has occurred since my last post!! This post is dedicated to what I should have posted later in the day on September 28th.

September 28th was the day our Photoshop assignment was due. As my last post indicates, I had already completed the assignment by the time I got to class--or had I? Silly me, I hadn't thought of actually "turning in" the assignment. Since I have the program at home, I had done it at home and just emailed the finished product to myself. When I got to campus, I opened my email in a computer lab to make sure everything was okay, and everything was fine. However, when I went to the computer lab my class is in, I couldn't pull it up!! Immediately I started cursing Macs and panicking (again=).

Fifty minutes and a lot of wasted energy later, I asked my instructor to help me, and I was able to turn the assignment in. The process of getting the assignment pulled up successfully was pathetically easy; I just hadn't known what I'd been doing wrong. More than anything, I just wished the instructor had taken a couple of minutes at the end of the work period to help individuals--that would have eliminated my problem and my panic. I know that teachers are always pressed for time, and that was the case this time, too. However, I'm also sure that I am not the only student who has ever wanted one-on-one help and expended a lot of energy stressing because I didn't receive it. Thus, in my future classroom I will try to recognize those "stress-out" moments in my students and respond accordingly.