I was wrong; there was a third day. However, this one may have been of my own making. Now that I've finished, here's the situation:
Due to social distancing and state mandates dealing with onlookers and pictures, we provided a photographer (my student teacher) for Monday's Diploma Ceremony. Each student had their picture taken with their diploma while on stage. Nathan Erfurth has since taken the photos, done some processing on them, and uploaded (for some, is still uploading) them into individual folders for each student (there are multiple photos of each student).
I made it so each folder had its own separate link and have emailed each individual student the link to their particular folder and pictures. Each link can then be shared with whomever they want, or they could download the pictures and send them out themselves ... or both. To be clear, that was 155 separate links to 155 separate emails. It took a while--my entire evening.
Did I make this harder than it needed to be? My thought was that each student would have control over their own pictures (side note: I'm still struggling with the idea of using "their," "them," and "they" as gender-neutral singular pronouns, but APA 7th ed. requires it now). However, I could have just shared the main folder (set to "view only") to all of the students in a single group emailing--a process that would have taken minutes instead of hours. I erred on the side of privacy, and I think that I did the right thing, but more than one person has said something to me like "... if that's the way you want to do it" perhaps suggesting that I was making a bigger deal out of this, and thus more work for myself, than I should have.
I'm also quite sensitive at the moment, so I might be reading more into what was said. However, it was more than one person, and I do sometimes make a bigger deal out of things than I should. I can get locked into an idea and need to see it through no matter what.
One way or another, it's done (or will be once the picture files finish uploading).
Due to social distancing and state mandates dealing with onlookers and pictures, we provided a photographer (my student teacher) for Monday's Diploma Ceremony. Each student had their picture taken with their diploma while on stage. Nathan Erfurth has since taken the photos, done some processing on them, and uploaded (for some, is still uploading) them into individual folders for each student (there are multiple photos of each student).
I made it so each folder had its own separate link and have emailed each individual student the link to their particular folder and pictures. Each link can then be shared with whomever they want, or they could download the pictures and send them out themselves ... or both. To be clear, that was 155 separate links to 155 separate emails. It took a while--my entire evening.
Did I make this harder than it needed to be? My thought was that each student would have control over their own pictures (side note: I'm still struggling with the idea of using "their," "them," and "they" as gender-neutral singular pronouns, but APA 7th ed. requires it now). However, I could have just shared the main folder (set to "view only") to all of the students in a single group emailing--a process that would have taken minutes instead of hours. I erred on the side of privacy, and I think that I did the right thing, but more than one person has said something to me like "... if that's the way you want to do it" perhaps suggesting that I was making a bigger deal out of this, and thus more work for myself, than I should have.
I'm also quite sensitive at the moment, so I might be reading more into what was said. However, it was more than one person, and I do sometimes make a bigger deal out of things than I should. I can get locked into an idea and need to see it through no matter what.
One way or another, it's done (or will be once the picture files finish uploading).
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