Well, here I am, doing a little groupware support gig at the University of Copenhagen, Institute of Danish language and litterature. It’s all part of a major scheme meant to facilitate better interaction around and during courses; my job is to assist the teaching staff in using the software. So I’ll be at my new little office for the next couple of weeks, curious to whether the presence of a supporter will have any effect on if this thing will lift off or not. Anyway, it’s a brilliant idea (actually, it’s just what should be expected, but still–things aren’t going too fast here in Uni-land all the time, so a small round of applause is appropriate I guess…) and I first thought of blogging the whole experience as a log of the first steps of adapting new technology in major institutions–and for the obvious entertainment value bound to follow jobs of this nature. But the thing is, it might just be a rather bad idea. I haven’t got any idea if I’ll be busy or not, and I’m not going to do a “nothing happened today” piece everyday about how bored I am. So I think I’ll just do a wrapup at the end, letting you know how it all went.
For now, I’m pretty much settled in, decent browsers and news readers installed (though it’s pretty damn hard being allowed to do anything without admin privileges on the machine I’ve been given due to its placement in the network), bad ass drum’n’bass in my headphones, canned beverages, coffee on its way… I think I’ll just enjoy being good ol’ fashioned employed for a while…
Update: Things are cooking, lots of people signing up, learning how to use the system.