Preparedness

No amount of preparedness will make up for a relatively small amount of unpreparedness.

Today was the first day of the Spring semester for the Renaissance Society at Sac State.  I attended a class on the topic of humor.  Although it appeared that the class coordinator (not teacher as we are all expected to share that duty) had put in some time putting together a beginning bibliography and potential class outline, he had not done his homework regarding using the physical facilities in the classroom..

We must have wasted 20 minuteness trying to get his laptop to communicate with the classroom projector until someone suggested finding a student who might know something about it.  A student was found and problem solved in less than a minute.  Half an hour later when the coordinator wanted to  use sound he discovered again that his laptop wasn't communicating sound to the classroom speaker system.

Even when the problem wasn't connecting to the classroom equipment unpreparedness seemed the order of the day.  Rather than using Powerpoint to highlight his lecture points, he had simply entered them on separate pages of a Word document.  As a result, some of them filled the screen and overflowed while others were so small they couldn't be read,

I finally got so frustrated that I left the class during the break and there's a good chance I won't be back.