General Just for fun, I would love to collaborate with someone(s) on a non-work, non-school related project that has a deliverable for the purpose of entertaining, educating, or improving lives as long as the team is a jolly one. On the MBA front, my class is going crazy with protests because the administration is requiring we submit a 5 minute DVD of ourselves giving a presentation. Since I've been posting videos for years, this task did not phase me. But business students are chiming in that they do not have the technical skills to produce a DVD in two weeks. Some are using money as a limiting factor but they all seem to point towards technical paranoia of this assignment. This is a communications class and the administration failed to communicate adequately to the students about the hardware and software required. 20% of the grade depends on them figuring this out in two weeks time, including having access to a projector and suit to present in. This is all childs play to me but that's because in fact I did do this for play purposes (surfing). Plus, I sleep with my IT department (Don, as if I needed to explain) so I get as much support as I want on any technical aspect of this assignment. Many students are deployed. Maybe their commander can just cough up the required recording, downloading, editing, DVD copying, and projecting equipment. I can see large number of military students reading this now going ....WTF!! You know what is way cool about online education? You can complain in mass in a discussion board. One complaint leads to another and pretty soon there is a coo threatening to do all kinds of things, the least of which is drop the class and cut their losses. It's entertaining. I wish my prior education was this interactive. I'm still of the belief (have been hypnotized) that a great deal of professional performance and scholastic subjective grading (such as in a Communications class) is based on how much your boss or instructor likes you. The students that are whining make me wince at how they are perceived but they are the ones that will force the administration to clean up their act. I absolutely detest this like-ability poll system because so much work has been put into improving skill sets and being competent (and stiring the pot for improvement sake such as these students are doing). All one needs to do is flunk the like-ability litmus test and they are toast. They should teach that. The instructor's response was of course to tell everyone the benefit of having feedback on their presentation (spin...a subject they teach). "Stick to the talking points!". Ok, that came out of another media class. So kids...learn to make videos just for fun, edit them with a movie editor of your choice (add titling and anything that will make it look professional), and spin to DVD because in college, they will drop these assignments on you these days. There's no warning in advance that they'll do this. You just need to be ready.

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