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Coming Up for Air II

Fall 2010 officially began August 23.  And my course teams got everything done!  I was thinking about how summer started.  I was glad to have Patty and Brad comment on my entry on ‘Coming Up for Air.’  But I can’t say that I actually improved the process for preparing courses for fall.  In fact, if it’s possible, things were even more hectic. 

For one thing, I was out of the office for 2 weeks for a conference and training.  I’ve never been so appreciative of being in the office before in my life :).  So if for nothing else but to remind myself: don’t ever do that again!  Seriously, I have never been more overwhelmed in my life.  But the good news is that everything got done because of the great people that I work with and adrenaline, and I am going to do something about it.  My first agenda item is to make a master plan for Spring ’11.  Once this has been created I plan to run it by a few people.  Then I’m going to put down milestones on my shared calendar to keep things in order. 

I’m hoping this works because I need to show some progress or will be disappointed.

Coming Up for Air

So it’s been 10 days since I’ve added an entry, but a ton has happened since then.  I received materials to finish up a course and have been spending most of my time getting the course ready for the summer semester. 

This reminds me of a few things about my job.  There are busier times and right before the opening of the semester is one.  This may seem obvious, but it always surprises me how busy things can get.  In any case, I feel like there has to be a way to not get so consumed by the craziness.  I thought in January that John Buckwalter and I had a plan that would work.  We decided to set up our tasks in the Google calendar based on a document shared by Louise Sharrar, but that has not worked.  Things are still getting done, but the process is less proactive and more reactive.  I’m thinking that we need to start using the Oracle calendar to establish milestones. 

Any thoughts from the group?