This week I continued shadowing my mentors, but I had more hands on experience with Jeff. For example, he allowed me to update clickers and answer phone calls in TLL. We had some complications with updating the clicker so I restarted the computer and continuously disconnected and reconnected the clickers until the software was able to detect the clicker. Steven and Jessica went over past material to make sure I got it. This included blackboard, staff, and what not to do as a senior consultant.

For class, Rich substituted for Tara, who had a flu. Rich had us write down characteristics of a good or a bad presenter in groups. Then, we had to find a picture in five minutes and do an improvised presentation of it. Rich said this may be the hardest thing he would make us do. It was hard, not because of the content, but because I wasn’t prepared to talk about my topic. Some of my peers had informative presentations, and others had amusing ones, but it allowed me to learn more about what they liked. So, not only was that exercise good practice for presentations, it helped me get to know my classmates.

Rich had to leave early, so at the end of class, Rose guided our class to LLRC where we had a walk-in tour. The area was really quiet and an ideal study spot. There seemed to be some language classrooms in there as well. What interested me about this room was that not only did it have MAC’s and PC’s, it had these very old looking computers. Rose said we do not support them because they’re so old but some professors insist on using software contained in those fossils.