I have to plunge in right away, and try it before I’ve even figured it out completely myself. The logical thing would be to get these ideas several months in advance, or to wait a semester and think them through and test them out before implementing them immediately. Just about every year, in the last week or two before classes begin, I get an innovative idea, some new thing that I just have to implement. They know the corollaries of TANSTAAFL very well.īut for me, what this really exemplifies, is a long-standing tendency in my teaching. That will pay the bill, and I always find that students (not just students) tend to value things more if they’ve had to pay for it (I’ll even give them a printed receipt), then if they get it for free. ![]() It’s only $15/month, so the semester will cost $60, and I think I will collect $2 from each student. So I think I’m going to be paying CourseForum, at least for this semester, to have them host it and let me give it a real-world try. ![]() I don’t feel like risking my home DSL account for this.Īnd my kind webhost folks politely and kindly told me that it would be impossible–their firewall would block the built-in webserver which CourseForum needs to run. It’s too late.Īnd I can’t serve it from my home machine–technically (or not even technically), running a server from home would violate my ISP’s Terms of Service. ![]() After more investigation–there’s no way to get the school to get me set up on a server for this semester.
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