Well, after a rather stressful week of finishing papers and stressing over how I am going to handle working with teams in all three of my classes, I guess I am ok. I keep thinking about that light at the end of the tunnel coming on May 11th.
I have had one irritation with technology this week. My group in management class conducted an interview for one of our upcoming presentations. Two out of the five members were unable to attend the interview due to work. One of the two was me. I was not overly concerned about missing it, until I received an email from the member who taped the interview. The email started something like “sorry, but……” My heart instantly sank to my feet. I did not have to read another word. Therefore, once again, technology has failed to deliver. Now I must rely on everyone’s notes. What is funny though, it reminded me about the blog I left a comment on last week. The woman, due to technology malfunctions, ended up copying five pages of the same information that she had already typed into the database. Overall, she printed five sheets of paper, used an envelope and a stamp for something she was suppose to be able take care of online. Because the recorder for our interview did not work, three members must reorganize their notes, type them out, and make two sets of copies or email them to the two of us. Of course you know what we are going to do with them? That’s right—print them! One of the team members has also attempted twice to send needed information to another member, but to no avail.
I sometimes feel that I tend to be rather negative towards technology and I guess I am. However, everyone is always commenting about the shortness of life. Can you imagine if you added up all of the hours that everyone has wasted trying to get some sort of a technological device to work correctly; how many years or even lifetimes that would be counted? I bet the number is mind staggering.
I hope that next week I will be in a more technologically positive mood. Until then, Happy Valentines Day!
2 comments:
Wow! Teams in all three of your classes? That must be a little hard to keep track of. I will let you know if you start talking about some other random project during our group meetings:)
The thing with technology is that you always have to have a back-up plan, like typed notes vs. a video. I learned that the hard way when I had no back up and therefore no presentation materials to share.
I get paranoid when I have to do presentations. I end up with a copy on my thumb drive, another on a CD, and a copy sent to each of my two email accounts. And, you're right, I always have a paper copy with me. Talk about redundancy!
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