Comments on: “No Copies For You!” http://www.theadjunct.net/2009/02/02/no-copies-for-you/ FULL-TIME THOUGHTS FROM A PART-TIME PROFESSOR Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:06:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Professor STAFF http://www.theadjunct.net/2009/02/02/no-copies-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Professor STAFF Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:34:41 +0000 http://www.theadjunct.net/?p=56#comment-16 I teach anywhere between 4-6 classes per semester/quarter. The smallest classes are 25 students, and the largest so far has been 40 (my wife, who teaches geography labs, can have classes upwards of 70 students). Let's say I have 5 classes at about 30 students per class. I am giving, as in the example that I posted about, a one-page quiz. That means I'd need 150 copies of the quiz. Now, this is not usually the case. Usually I need a hell of a lot more than a one-page quiz. There are study sheets, reading assignments (short stories, even double-sided, can take 10-15 pages), not to mention green sheets, syllabi, calendars, etc. A single class with 30 students might require one thousand pages of copied material during the course of a five month semester. There's no way my home printer can handle all that, nor my bank account if I started going to Kinko's. And before you say that I should make the material available online, currently out of the 3 districts I am teaching in, not one will provide me with online teaching resources to do so (let alone that while I can reproduce copyrighted material for educational purposes, I doubt Jhumpa Lahiri or Sherman Alexie would like me posting their published stories online for the whole internet). In emergencies, I have run off a set of quizzes from my home printer. Once, I shelled out $40.00 of my own cash to get a set of short stories copied in time for class. I can't always do this, and I won't always do this. No, the responsibility for providing copier access is that of the schools. I teach anywhere between 4-6 classes per semester/quarter. The smallest classes are 25 students, and the largest so far has been 40 (my wife, who teaches geography labs, can have classes upwards of 70 students). Let’s say I have 5 classes at about 30 students per class. I am giving, as in the example that I posted about, a one-page quiz. That means I’d need 150 copies of the quiz. Now, this is not usually the case. Usually I need a hell of a lot more than a one-page quiz. There are study sheets, reading assignments (short stories, even double-sided, can take 10-15 pages), not to mention green sheets, syllabi, calendars, etc. A single class with 30 students might require one thousand pages of copied material during the course of a five month semester. There’s no way my home printer can handle all that, nor my bank account if I started going to Kinko’s. And before you say that I should make the material available online, currently out of the 3 districts I am teaching in, not one will provide me with online teaching resources to do so (let alone that while I can reproduce copyrighted material for educational purposes, I doubt Jhumpa Lahiri or Sherman Alexie would like me posting their published stories online for the whole internet). In emergencies, I have run off a set of quizzes from my home printer. Once, I shelled out $40.00 of my own cash to get a set of short stories copied in time for class. I can’t always do this, and I won’t always do this. No, the responsibility for providing copier access is that of the schools.

]]> By: Timothy Horrigan http://www.theadjunct.net/2009/02/02/no-copies-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Timothy Horrigan Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:19:00 +0000 http://www.theadjunct.net/?p=56#comment-15 Copies? Copies? Who the hell makes photocopies anymore? Print them directly from your computer, for cryin' out loud. Even if you do need to copy something, you can scan it and print the image file. --Tim Horrigan Copies? Copies? Who the hell makes photocopies anymore? Print them directly from your computer, for cryin’ out loud. Even if you do need to copy something, you can scan it and print the image file.

–Tim Horrigan

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