Serendib Teaching

Will the students be able to tell I’m smiling at them from behind the mask? I hope so. Maybe the purple hair will help?

Syllabi and course materials done, uploaded, e-mailed, and printed. Yes, it feels a little goofy doing it three different ways, but redundancy is my watchword at the moment, in an attempt to forestall students’ complaints that they can’t find the information… And now, a snack, and then, to bed.

Hey, SF peeps. Help me update my resource list for my students? I’m looking for more suggestions for writer of color SF/F anthologies & magazines (not necessarily American): • AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, edited by Ivor W. Hartmann • Apex Book of World SF, vol. 1 & 2, edited by Lavie Tidhar •

I have about two hours left of work to finish getting ready for semester start tomorrow, and I am completely failing to make myself do it. I think I could have used another month or three to recover from last year’s remote teaching…

It’s funny — I had a long conversation yesterday with Jed about the difficulty of doing performance evaluations that accurately measure how people really do at their jobs. There’s a massive critique happening in academia regarding the racialized and gendered issues with student course evaluations, for example. There’s also the ‘bad review’ problem — as

I don’t mind teaching online occasionally, but for more than a year straight? Too much. I’m really exhausted; I handed in my final grades and kind of wanted to cry with the tiredness. I will take the commute, if it means I can see my students’ faces and hear their voices in person in the

Finishing up grading, down to the wire, per usual. I could go faster if I didn’t take the time to enjoy the sweet notes from students — who *really* appreciated a little extra flexibility this semester. Some of the notes make me laugh: “I wanted to say thank you for such an excellent semester. I

One class down for the semester, one to go. Per usual, I’m already missing my munchkins. When they’re stressing out about their final papers, they don’t realize how fond of them we are.