tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659978197964768089.post4193876768398083535..comments2008-05-07T20:39:05.107-07:00Comments on CollegeTeaching: 603.1imcriswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00486735215819682234noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659978197964768089.post-16914274375279738802008-01-23T15:40:00.000-08:002008-01-23T15:40:00.000-08:00To answer your question: No. Your approach is not ...To answer your question: No. Your approach is not as effective and/or efficient as it needs to be. Mostly it sounds to me like you're wasting a great deal of your students' precious time. After all, a minute here, a minute there of tangential and, I daresay, irrelevant "banter" (as you call it) adds up to 48 minutes of time wasted for the semester--and that's if you only waste 1 minute per class on average, and you and I both know you waste at least 5 times that amount in each and every class period, MINIMUM! So, at an average of 5 minutes per class wherein you are (in all likelihood) espousing your perverse brand of Atheistic, pro-Capitalistic dogma to a captive audience, you'll have utterly ruined no less than 240 potential teaching/learning minutes. The shame of it all, Brunson!! Honestly, how can you live with yourself in light of the public humiliation that you are sure to reap as a consequence of your confession?<BR/><BR/>That said, I burn at least that much time, if not more, in a given class. And sometimes I'm not even talking, I'm just looking at them looking at me until it becomes so uncomfortable for all involved that the only way out of it is for me to flash them a bearded shit-eating grin and then casually carrying on like none of that business actually happened. You should grow a beard and try it sometime; you might find doing so a rewarding experience.BeardedFuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02360689220557988209noreply@blogger.com