{"id":558,"date":"2009-02-12T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2009-02-12T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:02:39","slug":"the-downside-of-study-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/the-downside-of-study-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"The Downside of Study Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to really see the mixed-blessing of having a study leave (or &#8220;sabbatical&#8221; if you like).  As I <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/sabbatical-plan\/\">mentioned before<\/a>, the purpose of the leave is essentially to do stuff that you didn&#8217;t have a chance to while teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the problem: I can always find time to do most of the stuff I really <em>want<\/em> to do.  What&#8217;s left are tasks that I had been putting off because I didn&#8217;t really want to face them.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point:  This month is pretty much dedicated to CMPT 165 distance ed revisions.<\/p>\n<p>The old 165 distance has gotten a little crufty, and needs some attention.  I had already done the work on the course content and Study Guide.  Now just have to do the assignments, exams and final admin stuff.  What parts of teaching do I hate most?  Yup.  Those.<\/p>\n<p>And the kicker is that I know that no matter what I do, half of the students taking 165 are going to hate it and me anyway.  They want an easy no-work credit and are still going to find that if they don&#8217;t know any tech anything, it&#8217;s going to be a University course worth of work (but realistically, no more than that).<\/p>\n<p>Feh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to really see the mixed-blessing of having a study leave (or &#8220;sabbatical&#8221; if you like). As I mentioned before, the purpose of the leave is essentially to do stuff that you didn&#8217;t have a chance to while teaching. Here&#8217;s the problem: I can always find time to do most of the stuff I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}