I have to laugh
Oct. 11th, 2007 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichI am reading the essay that Isabel cited and midway through, I had to laugh. Because I'm putting together a handout for a class I'm teaching at that Norsa event and I had already wrestled with and decided against bringing paper copies* but instead will be bringing CDs of the handout so folks can use the information hand-in-hand with online links.
I, a Luddite who loves paper, am eschewing it in favor of the advantages of online ease.
*Check my logic. Is there a hole in it?
- Since it is a full-immersion event, both paper and CD handouts will be something that has to be instantly hidden.
- During the event, I will be there to talk to and aid whoever has questions.
- All of the attendees who might take my class will be going home to places all over the globe and none of them will have the resources *I* have because embroidery is not their area of research so CD/online resources with pictures will be more effective for them once they are at home.
- If they lose the CD, I can easily send a copy of the handout to them via email, whereas if my handout contains things that are not first stored in my computer file, that information is lost to them. (This last is shakey because I don't know how big my handout file will be. It may require mailing a CD to someone anyway if they have a limited Internet connection.) (No, wait, I can put the file in our Yahoo Group's file section. Duh.)
I, a Luddite who loves paper, am eschewing it in favor of the advantages of online ease.
*Check my logic. Is there a hole in it?
- Since it is a full-immersion event, both paper and CD handouts will be something that has to be instantly hidden.
- During the event, I will be there to talk to and aid whoever has questions.
- All of the attendees who might take my class will be going home to places all over the globe and none of them will have the resources *I* have because embroidery is not their area of research so CD/online resources with pictures will be more effective for them once they are at home.
- If they lose the CD, I can easily send a copy of the handout to them via email, whereas if my handout contains things that are not first stored in my computer file, that information is lost to them. (This last is shakey because I don't know how big my handout file will be. It may require mailing a CD to someone anyway if they have a limited Internet connection.) (No, wait, I can put the file in our Yahoo Group's file section. Duh.)
