{"id":749,"date":"2011-10-26T16:37:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T23:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/?p=749"},"modified":"2012-01-28T00:11:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T00:11:05","slug":"teaching-with-a-microphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2011\/10\/26\/teaching-with-a-microphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching with a microphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/teachingintrotocs.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/how-to-create-extra-work-for-other.html\">Claire&#8217;s post on accidentally taking a classroom microphone<\/a> with her after teaching, I grumbled to myself &#8220;I wish I taught at a fancy university with a fancy microphone in the fancy classroom.&#8221; \u00a0One email later, I learn that there is a microphone in the computer cabinet in the classroom where I teach 130 students. \u00a0I tried it out today, hoping to counter a sore throat after flying back from FOCS*. \u00a0Apparently it worked really well, the students in the back were answering more questions and one student after class asked me to use it in future classes.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it means that maintaining my sanity with comments murmured under my breath is no longer possible.<\/p>\n<p>* I will post on FOCS when the talks from the conference are available so I can point to my favorite talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Claire&#8217;s post on accidentally taking a classroom microphone with her after teaching, I grumbled to myself &#8220;I wish I taught at a fancy university with a fancy microphone in the fancy classroom.&#8221; \u00a0One email later, I learn that there is a microphone in the computer cabinet in the classroom where I teach 130 students. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1000],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}