“A Day in the Life of a College Teacher” Challenge!

Dear Hivemind o’ Professorial Types:

I’m sure you also recently read “What Professors Do.” It’s a common misconception that we all work only the few hours a week we are actually in the classroom, and it’s a misconception worth correcting (Especially for our students. Remember when your profs told you “You’ll be even busier as an assistant?” And you didn’t believe them?).

Dr. Gretchen Busl and Dr. Dundee Lackey are professors in the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages at Texas Woman’s University. We are in the midst of a year-long series of professional development workshops for our MA and PhD students. One of those we’d been planning for this term is “a day in the life” of a professor. We’d like you to help with this. It has the side benefit of continuing the conversation above.

We’d LOVE it if you’d do the following:

  • Take a digital picture OR shoot one second of video (or both) each day in February (Shooting on your phone is fine. Please hold the phone in landscape mode/sideways when shooting). Please make sure any others you include in your images are okay with this (Verbal consent is fine).
  • Save each with the filename indicating your surname and the date.
  • Zip ‘em up and email them to us on the last day of the month. Please include in that email your name, title (lecturer, adjunct, assistant, associate, professor…), and university. Feel free to include any notes you’d like to re. what’s going on each day (but this is not required.) If you miss a day or two, don’t fret. We’ll be picking and choosing from the collection (so it’s likely not every shot will make it in anyway).
  • You can reach us at dlackey {AT} twu.edu OR gbusl {AT} twu.edu.

We’ll assemble these into a video, which we’ll make available for YOU to use as well!

 

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