the encouragement lounge: My Dog Ate Your Homework

Thursday, February 16, 2012

My Dog Ate Your Homework

We have a new puppy (this is part of the reason I haven't been posting much lately -- he takes time and attention so between that and teaching, I'm busy). Anyway, yesterday I looked up from some work and noticed that he was chewing on the end of one of my teaching notebooks. So he literally may have been eating a student's homework (how's that for a turn of events!).

Cheering you on in your work!

Harriet

Photo by HLS

2 comments:

UnknownFebruary 16, 2012 at 6:17 AM
My dog Charlie actually ate my homework in 12th grade. It was a review sheet that I had to complete. My teacher had a good laugh about it.
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Harriet SchwartzFebruary 16, 2012 at 8:34 AM
What a hoot! Glad your teacher had a sense of humor!
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Working adult students, on my mind...

I hope this blog will be helpful to friends and others involved in a variety of endeavors. However, I created the blog with students in mind and continue to develop it with that specific group as my focus.

I believe that with the increase in evening, weekend, and low-residency programs, students are working more and more in isolation. If we were all full-time students on campus, we would have the informal support that comes with being able to go down the hall and talk with a colleague, etc. But instead, we are working late nights and weekends at home in front of the laptop.

With that in mind, I hope the encouragement lounge provides brief moments of respite and energizing connection. This does not at all replace valuable face-to-face contact. Many aspects of the academic journey can only be addressed via in-depth conversations with colleagues and teachers. And I would always rather sit down and talk with someone than to communicate online. Nonetheless, my aim is to give you one more channel for quick hits of support.