my how things have changed!

[woodsmoke]

If a student is not going to be in class I ASSUME that since they are adults that there is a valid reason and don't worry about it, and have a stated policy that if a student cannot submit a take-home exam on the stated day that an image can be taken with a cell phone or it can be scanned and e-mailed to me.

Well we are in the last week and four students didn't show up, not an unexpected occurrence in the pre-finals week from Hell....and they sent A ) 1 student TYPED THE THING OFF! and sent a word doc and B) three sent images from their cell phone.

I opened the e-mails, downloaded and did a quick once over and responded that I got them, and this evening went to the computer to ...........

a) open Firefox
b) go to the college web site
c) go to the intranet
d) enter password
e) open blackboard
f) enter password
g) go to mail center
h) open the e-mail
i) download the item
j) print

ummmmmmm

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

sitting at the computer................

ummmmmm....

nope.....

I picked up the phone, went to downloads and printed by wifi to my HP6600 using the HP6600 app on my phone.

Things TRUELY ARE ............changing....

woodsurprisedhowmuchsmoke

BTW my phone is actually PASSWORD protected, not swipe, and the school's e-mail on the phone is password protected and I STILL respond to a student's e-mail within a couple of minutes while other profs just never seem....to....be ...able to disengage from contemplating their navels long enought to actually respond....to e-mails "from students"...and they CERTAINLY are not going to go to the IT people to have e-mail set up on their phones.............(YESSS I have yet to run across another professor at ANY college........and that is a lot........I give presentations on my teaching methods...that actually has school e-mail set up on their phones......WHAT!!! THEY HAVE TO GO TO THE IT DEPT to HAVE...e-mail set up their phones!! ?? .. . what jokes...no wonder my classes have already filled for the FALL semester! lol

[GreyGeek]

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I picked up the phone, went to downloads and printed by wifi to my HP6600 ....

Things TRUELY ARE ............changing....

woodsurprisedhowmuchsmoke

.....(YESSS I have yet to run across another professor at ANY college........and that is a lot........I give presentations on my teaching methods...that actually has school e-mail set up on their phones......WHAT!!! THEY HAVE TO GO TO THE IT DEPT to HAVE...e-mail set up their phones!! ?? .. . what jokes...no wonder my classes have already filled for the FALL semester! lol

I have an app on my iPhone6+ called "FileMaster" that lets me send stuff to my printer via wifi. I can also connect my laptop to my iPhone via wifi and transfer files back and forth as easy as falling off a log.

Teacher being behind the times? Most. Often by decades! After I resigned from my ten year high school teaching gig to begin my own computer consulting business I was part owner of a store selling Apples. I sold a LOT of Apples to Jr and Sr high schools and colleges in central and eastern Nebraska. Fifteen years later, long after I am out of the computer selling business, I visit a school north of Lincoln and notice that the only computer they have is an Apple ]['. The only piece of software running on it was the Wrestling Scoring program I wrote 15 years previously! Not one teacher in that school 9-12 school of 500 students used a computer or knew how to program it. My nine year old grandson has an iPhone6. He knows that device inside and out. My wife, who has one too, can't remember how to send a text msg. "That's what I have you around for!", she says.

I suspect that the personal computer (the desktop or laptop) is going away. And, as AI increases in power so will 6" form factors. What if your computer was in your ear and you conversed with it and it spoke into your ear. Light powered. Wifi connected. Displaying into your eyes like google's Glass did, but more discretely. I probably won't be around to see it but it will bare as much resemblance to present day laptops and smartphones as biplanes do to Verticopters.

[Rufus]

Hey, just wanted to say this: hats off to you, sirs. I am not yet 40, I am designing mechanical parts for an optical-electronic device in cars at the moment and am impressed at the level of attention you have for novelty and new technology. Keep it up, God bless.
I do believe this is also one of the main reasons why people use linux based OS: that spirit of autonomy, the freedom and the challenge it brings. I do hope more and more people will be educated towards freedom and self-reliance or community-reliance and less and less are attracted to the stinking "security vs. liberty/freedom" mantra which turns citizens into obedient serfs...

[jpenguin]

My school email is through Microsoft 365, my school used SSO links from their web portal, but wouldn't give us passwords to log in directly. That meant no setting up on phones or desktop clients. It took me almost a year to get a password, and now access with the imap compatibility layer, they liked the idea so much- they don't support SSO anymore

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[woodsmoke]

Kewl info guys! as ALWAYS!!

woodappreciativesmoke