Responses to a few common concerns from Class survey

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

Here are some responses to a few common concerns from the class survey:

1. videos: I understand that videos can be compressed and even be

streamed. However, since I am doing the videos on my time, the only

way I can afford the time is if they cost me very little time-wise. 

As of now, when I go back from the class, I just plug in the flip

recorder, rename the files, and copy them over to the homepage (which

takes some 15min). Anything more involved is likely to just not get

done.  The college does do professional videotaping--but that is

limited only to online classes. Although online classes are more

remunerative, I prefer to do classes in a classroom setting. All of

this is a long-winded way of saying "don't look the gift horse in the

mouth" ;-)

Also on videos, the best way to view them would be to download them

onto your laptop while you are at school (or on some highspeed

network) and watch them later (vlcviewer is a very good platform

independent viewer)

2. accent/talking speed etc: I am sympathetic to these issues, but I

don't see much point in me telling you that I can change this

drastically. At some point, it becomes hard to teach new tricks to old

dogs ;-). You will have to make-up using the audio/video (or, since

you are still young dogs, teach yourself the trick of following fast

speakers ;-)

3. Tweetnotes: The intent of tweetnotes is not so much that they are

curated summaries of the classes, but that they are uncurated

impressions of each class. They are most useful for me in terms of

figuring out what points got through to students. 

regards

Rao