RBP's weekend WTF post made me realize

[EmilieMadison]

How long I've been out of school. When I was in college, office hours and phone calls were the standard means of contacting professors. In HS it was face to face. Now I'm thinking about how much time I would have saved if emailing was standard then!

[UMaineTeach]

I did most of my chatting with professors FTF, but usually not about class.
I never ever went to anyone's office hours.
Most class questions were by email to the class folder where the professor or anyone else could answer it for you.

[Deleted]

By the time I was in college and law school, email was the easiest way to contact a professor (though I rarely had reason to do so). I feel bad for my friends who are teachers because they apparently get tons of emails from parents. I think it is easy enough for parents to shoot a teacher an email rather than calling that they probably don't think as much as they should about doing it.

[ssmjlm]

My senior communication project in college actually looked at how email increased communication between students and professors.

[GailGoldie]

I feel the same way... i graduated high school in 1991... long before email. In college I was one of the first people I knew with email only b/c my dad is a computer geek and set me up with a computer and internet so he could email me.... for a while he was the only person I got emails from

i remember the first time i even heard about email - i was visiting a friend that went to Clemson, and he was telling me about this cool new Email he had. His name was Eric and I thought it was something just for him - E-mail... Eric Mail... I was so confused, lol. that was freshman year in college (so, 1992ish)... then I got it soon after.

When i was a K teacher (1995-2000) I had my old computer set up in my classroom with some games for the kids- but no internet. Now my boys have Smart Boards in all of their classrooms (prek and K)... and the twin's PreK class (an early help class) also has a freakin iPad for each child, too!!!!

I love that I can email their teachers with quick questions - oh, how life would have been easier when I was a teacher if I had email!

[Deleted]

I was in college in the early 2000s, and it was pretty soon after e-mail had caught on as the standard mode of communication on campus. It's great--it has cut down on paper memos, etc. SOOOOO much. But it also lowers the barrier to students sending me really stupid shit, like the e-mail in my post. And people asking me what they needed to bring to lab last week when I told them no fewer than five times that lab starts on September 13th.

[aurora]

Sept 8, 2012 18:04:59 GMT -5 @redbellpeppers said:

...And people asking me what they needed to bring to lab last week when I told them no fewer than five times that lab starts on September 13th.

Just watch out...when you finally tire of it after time #10 and invite them to look at the schedule/syllabus you provided them or refer back to the last 10 in-class questions, they will complain to your department head about you being unhelpful and unapproachable.