rant

I understand that you can't love every teacher you ever have.  I feel like I had pretty good luck at the U, and maybe it's selective memory, but I didn't have any professors I really hated.  A few that were a tad bit on the boring side, but not terrible.
Enter EDUC 2500.  This is a stupid online class, so maybe the reason I have so much angst towards this professor is that I have never met her.  Or maybe that would just exacerbate the situation.  Hate is a strong word, but I am so tempted to use it.  This is the type of class where the teacher types out the assignment followed by a little smiley icon, as if that makes it more fun or something.  Should a smiley icon be a part of a college course?  The assignments are a little crazy (pick an element from the curriculum and create an 8 page smart board lesson on your selected topic).  Mind you, none of the people in this class have ever actually had any classes about lesson development or planning lessons based on curriculum.  So we basically have to figure out how in the world to plan a lesson in order to do this assignment.  The point of the assignment is to learn to use technology, but I spend more time trying to plan these stupid theoretical lessons than I do figuring out the technology aspect of it.  Then, on top of it all, she grades us more on our lesson plan and our grammar/punctuation than she does on our use of technology.  Maybe she forgot that this class is called "Technology for Educators."  The whole purpose of this class is to learn about technology and its particular uses in the classroom, not learning how to put together a geometry lesson plan!  It causes me so much tension and pain every day.  I have a feeling that this particular professor smiles a lot.  And I bet she thinks she is a really good teacher.  She slams us by like 5% for each grammatical/punctuation error in the things we write, but her instructions to us are riddled with errors.  I send her a message asking her a specific questions, and she shoots back a generality (like, oh that's fixed now)  which doesn't address my original question, plus it's not fixed!  I hate teachers like this.  If I am a teacher like this, please shoot me, or at least advise me to cut my losses and find a new profession. 

I would like to also note, that from the first week of class, I assumed this lady was some sort of part time adjunct, unimportant type of person.  Partially because she sent out the same message to everyone in the class three times (duh!), and partially because the message had so many punctuation/grammar errors.  I later found out that she is the Accreditation Director of the department, and is one of the few professors who actually has a doctorate degree.  Makes me think it must not be that hard to get a doctorate.