USF SLIS: East Coast Connection

I liked professor Yoon, and I enjoyed meeting her at our live classes at FIU North. Her lectures our helpful, and the Chan book is Useful. The Taylor book is interesting, but not important, and all of the other readings she assigned are torturously dull and useless in terms of completing the assignments. She also assigned a group project which was a total chore. Overall I wouldn't avoid her, but be wary of that group assignment. If I see her teaching another online class I might take it if the subject matter is right. Let me know if anyone has taking that class she is teaching in the summer (indexing, i think it is). She does pick up some bonus points for being a cutie, especially when she talks (catalog=catarog).

I took Professor Austin for the class Web Design for Librarians, I learned a lot in the class, and it inspired me to build this website. Professor Austin seems to care about the students, and really wants them to succeed. She chose useful reading materials for the course that are falling apart from overuse. The problem many seemed to have with her is that she does seem to go mia on occasions. This doesn't bother me, but some people in the class were noticeably perturbed. When she was available, during elluminate sessions she was very helpful, and she would always offer feedback in assignments, although they did take abnormally long to be returned. Overall, I would definitely take a class with her again. I am hoping that a part II to the web design class gets developed. I would not recommend taking her if you don't like classes to feel like independent study. Here is her link on ratemyprofessors.com

I took Dr. Scott Simon for the 5020 Foundations class my first semester at USf. I thought he chose interesting and challenging reading materials, and I believe the class was set up in a strait forward and logical fashion. The class knew what was expected of us, and it was an environment that was easy to succeed in. There are some things I think he could improve. He was more or less absent on the discussion boards, offering little more than generic compliments every couple of weeks. He assigned us thought provoking reading material, and I would have like to seen him take charge of the discussion boards a bit more, and probe us to really think about the materials. Another problem I had was the complete absence of feedback on the four assignments we had. If I spend two months on a research paper, I would like my professor to say a few things about it. Overall, he is definitely not a reason to avoid taking a class. I am taking another class with him this semester, digital libraries, and I am looking forward to it.

I wanted to post a quick hello and a big thank you to Martin for getting this site started. I am in my 6th semester, and will need 3 credits after this semester. Being an East Coast distance LIS student can be lonely sometimes--I was very lucky that in my first class--Foundations--I connected with a group of other distance students and we still keep in touch. When you are home working on your computer, it makes all the difference just to have another student to be able to connect with about class and teacher issue. I have learned that LIS students are intelligent, fun, and I am always happy to meet new ones. I think possibly one of the most helpful aspects of this site could be our thoughts and opinions on our professors and classes. As I am nearing the end of the program, I hope I can contribute something that might help one of you out there. So, as I find the time I will slowly post my comments about past professors and classes. The first will be about Dr. Dee, because Martin mentioned having a class with her now. Just one thing, I am feeling a bit constrained in what I can be writing. I don't want all my past teachers to start reading my comments!! Do I have a reason to worry. Alas, if we can't be honest with what we will be writing, there will be no point in it. So, thanks again to Martin for getting this started. Hope to learn something from all of you.

I took Professor Austin for the class Web Design for Librarians, I learned a lot in the class, and it inspired me to build this website. Professor Austin seems to care about the students, and really wants them to succeed. She chose useful reading materials for the course that are falling apart from overuse. The problem many seemed to have with her is that she does seem to go mia on occasions. This doesn't bother me, but some people in the class were noticeably perturbed. When she was available, during elluminate sessions she was very helpful, and she would always offer feedback in assignments, although they did take abnormally long to be returned. Overall, I would definitely take a class with her again. I am hoping that a part II to the web design class gets developed. I would not recommend taking her if you don't like classes to feel like independent study. Here is her link on ratemyprofessors.com

I took Dr. Scott Simon for the 5020 Foundations class my first semester at USf. I thought he chose interesting and challenging reading materials, and I believe the class was set up in a strait forward and logical fashion. The class knew what was expected of us, and it was an environment that was easy to succeed in. There are some things I think he could improve. He was more or less absent on the discussion boards, offering little more than generic compliments every couple of weeks. He assigned us thought provoking reading material, and I would have like to seen him take charge of the discussion boards a bit more, and probe us to really think about the materials. Another problem I had was the complete absence of feedback on the four assignments we had. If I spend two months on a research paper, I would like my professor to say a few things about it. Overall, he is definitely not a reason to avoid taking a class. I am taking another class with him this semester, digital libraries, and I am looking forward to it.