i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
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i am amazingly tired. geh. get through tomorrow & i get a 3-day weekend.
went to the chancellor's office today to talk about webct, and i'm so disappointed. appalled, even. i want so much to like webct, to defend them, and they're not making it easy. after learning that "ease of use" just means that the csus aren't implementing webct correctly; and that we'll triple the price of the license even though it's not much different; and that webct doesn't need any new customers because they have such a "large market share," i really had to keep myself from screaming. the blackboard people were so much more genial and admitted when they made mistakes. i can totally see why people are flocking to them.
the good thing about the meeting was that i learned the grass is not, in fact, greener on the other side, so i feel better about making the decision to wait until a clear leader emerges. it would just be trading pain for pain. and after the presentations, i feel good about our processes and "best practices."
teresa said she didn't realize i could give such a good presentation. i was finally able to tell teresa that i -missed- the part of my job where i get to tell important people what i think; she says i'm in an awkward place, but i don't know if anything can/will be done. i decided to broach it more formally w/ her & chuck at my performance evaluation next month.