{"id":50,"date":"2008-11-07T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caveatquaestor.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/07\/musings-on-next-semester"},"modified":"2008-11-07T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:47:00","slug":"musings-on-next-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2008\/11\/musings-on-next-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings on Next Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I picked my classes:<\/p>\n<p>LIS 2002: Retrieving Information (required core course, blended format)<br \/>LIS 2405: Intro to Cataloging and Classification (online only course)<br \/>LIS 2690: Information Visualization (blended format)<br \/>LIS 2879: Academic Librarianship (blended format)<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice two things about them. One, it&#8217;s a pretty fun and interesting set of things to study. Two, everything is online, or at the very least, blended. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: this upsets me. I dropped everything to move to Pittsburgh for this degree. More than that, Dale dropped everything and took a job he doesn&#8217;t like as much as the job he had in Virginia, to move to Pittsburgh, so I could get this degree. Which is made up almost entirely of online courses. I am paying through the nose for this degree, and yet, I am looking at another semester of fighting the discussion boards in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/\" target=\"new\">sub-par distance education software<\/a> to have artificial &#8220;conversations&#8221; for the sole purpose of making the off-campus students feel that they&#8217;re part of the community&#8211;a misguided effort, to be sure, as they are no more fans of the discussion boards than we are. &#8230; I hope I&#8217;m wrong and all of next semester&#8217;s professors will understand that the enforced-online-discussion model wastes students&#8217; time, brings down the level and the sincerity of discourse, and ultimately decreases the value of the degree we are earning.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to muse\/rant some more, but I have some digital library software I am trying desperately to learn to use (getting it to run would be a start&#8211;curse you, Greenstone!), before I go to bed tonight. Tomorrow and Sunday, I&#8217;ll be on the road, attending a wedding. (Yay, weddings!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I picked my classes: LIS 2002: Retrieving Information (required core course, blended format)LIS 2405: Intro to Cataloging and Classification (online only course)LIS 2690: Information Visualization (blended format)LIS 2879: Academic Librarianship (blended format) You&#8217;ll notice two things about them. One, it&#8217;s a pretty fun and interesting set of things to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2008\/11\/musings-on-next-semester\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musings on Next Semester<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,29,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackboard","category-classes","category-library-school","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}