The Rutgers video was an interesting watch. I felt that it did a good job of showing us as teachers the types of challenges with teaching such a wide range of tuned in and tuned out students. I remember that the video was brought up briefly in class, and a comment was made about having to stop watching it when they saw how the students were going out, procrastinating, and half completing assignments. To me though that was the exact reason that I thought that the video really hit me with a reminder of the obstacles which composition teachers have to overcome.
I can say for myself that I was not always a star student and pushing myself to learn. I felt the video at least gave a good insight into the freshman college students lives. I have always been a firm believer of the idea the better you can understand the student, the better the student can understand you. I am not speaking in terms of an individual student basis, but more of the entire body of the first-time-college-student-coming-from-high-school as a whole. It has been a while ago for me, so I thought that the video was a good tool to watch as teachers in terms of relating to students, ideas for structuring lectures, and class schedule/assignment due dates (such as require them to turn in a rough draft a week or two before the paper is due could help procrastination). What I'm trying to say is that I felt there was something to get from the video and was sad to hear that it was dismissed by part of the class.
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