[Nfb-krafters-korner] classes

Tue Jan 4 10:07:21 UTC 2011

Eileen, 
   I also have been reading the comments on this thread concerning the time constraints for classes and I agree with you whole heartily. 
   I'm sorry, but as members of this group you pay a $10 membership for unlimited classes for a whole year where you can sit home in your PJ's, put your finger in the dial and call in an get instructions from a teacher who understands your special challenges in crafting, they also spend hours making sure their instructions are clearly understood, give you a back up MP3 copy of the class and sometimes also makes time for additional questions and then she shouldn't have the choice of determining when it's convenient for her to conduct the class!  The excuses and reasons are a little unclear here. 
   No teacher I ever had in school, ever worried whether it was inconvenient for me to almost kill myself driving through snow laden streets to get to class on the time it was scheduled. Never in mind of sitting home and dialing in or whether I had to pick up my child, cook my dinner (many nights of which I went without between work and night classes) to make sure I made it on time, even if they were art or leisure classes. I would have never thought of asking my teacher to meet my schedule, especially if they were doing it on a volunteer basis. 
   When I worked in administration and had to prepare a schedule for night school classes, we prepared our community night school calendars six months in advance for classes.  The time slots were filled and both teachers and students had to prepare for the particular time that was set aside. Here Joyce is working with a calendar and times where she is trying to accommodate everyone's schedule across at least a 3 to 6 hour time difference, not just one time zone and trying to find a time convenient for most people. As Terry K put it, "the hard decisions have to come from leadership." 

 I have been following all the interesting comments about time for lessons,
and really do not know how you can please everyone, the hard decisions have
to come from leadership. I can do about every time frame, days are difficult
as now new year training like Freedom Science if, computer training.
However, if I want to learn a new idea, I arrange and plan for it.
Terry K

  It has been interesting to hear the comments and I really feel sorry for those who are in the far reaches of our nation and overseas. I'm sure as we go forward Joyce and the board will try to make some additional arrangements. But please try to understand and be considerate of our volunteer, unpaid teachers and not just request their recordings without making an effort to give them the courtesy of attending their classes. Your individual question can not be properly addressed by a recording. 

Audrey Wellner, Secretary
Krafters Korner, division

My goodness......me, me, me

--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Eileen Scrivani <etscrivani at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Eileen Scrivani <etscrivani at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] classes
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Date: Monday, January 3, 2011, 4:38 PM

My point is that I know I have offered alternate days and times but there are people that claim they just can't do it for whatever reason.  That is an individual's choice as to how they spend their time and work out issues in life.  I have a life, family and husband to along with houshold duties & responsibilities that need tending to just as others do.  When a class is offered I can either make the time and clear my schedule for 1 or two hours (not a huge amount of time) or I can choose to not take the class.  I would not make everyone else alter classes to accomodate my individual issues.

As an instructor, my personal feeling on the matter is that I don't want to teach to a recording or allow the class materials I've put a lot of time & effort into preparing as well as my own expertese on a topic to just be handed out to people who haven't made the effort to attend and participate with the rest of the people in a class.

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From: "Lovette Yewchan" <lyewchan at telus.net>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 4:18 PM
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] classes

> I agree that sometimes you need to be able to work out what works for an instructor but it depends on why you cannot make a class.
> For me 5 my time is hard because as much as I want to take classes it is dinner hour and I have a family to think of and homework with young kids so should I not be allowed to benefit because of responsibilities like this?
> I think if a person could check in and get the recordings later or if two times were available that would be helpful.
> Lovette
> At 12:57 PM 1/3/2011, you wrote:
>> Terry:
>> 
>> Yes, thank you I am in total agreement.  It is impossible to meet everyone's needs.  Anytime I have taken classes I arranged my schedule acordingly and did not expect the school or instructor to go through changes to make it just so for me.  When you want to learn or do something its up to the individual to make it happen for themselves.
>> 
>> In the past I offered doing classes on either Saturday's or Sundays either afternoon or evening but no one was willing to make a 1 or 2 hour opening for a weekend.  That says to me they did not want to do it all that badly. Everyone has other things going on in their lives including the people teaching so let's be reasonable about the time slots.
>> 
>> Personally, I very strongly object to giving out recordings to people who will not take the time to participate with the group or phone chats or phone classes.  Just giving out the recordings without attendance will ruin the workings of how classes work.  We all learn from others questions and input during the classes. Attendance is what makes the group and classes enjoyable.   I don't want to sit and lecture at a recording machine with no living being on the other end.
>> 
>> Eileen
>> 
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Terry Knox" <tknox6 at sc.rr.com>
>> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 2:30 PM
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] classes
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I have been following all the interesting comments about time for lessons,
>>> and really do not know how you can please everyone, the hard decisions have
>>> to come from leadship. I can do about every time frame, days are difficult
>>> as now new year training like Freedom Science if, computer training.
>>> However, if I want to learn a new idea, I arrange and plan for it.
>>> 
>>> I would like a plastic canvas class, I know it was done before. Terry P, do
>>> you sell kits? I would like tissue box.
>>> 
>>> Terry K
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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