You might not realize this from where you sit, but it’s darn challenging for professors to learn 50-75 new names and faces every semester. And that’s without dealing with jet lag complications!<\/p>\n
One of the ways I expedite learning students’ names is practicing. (Some might call this “cheating.” I call those people “haters.”) I download everybody’s “mug shot” from Banner, and run through the faces like flash cards, gradually learning to associate a name with a face.<\/p>\n
It used to be that all Banner students had a mug shot, period. (I think it’s the pic that appears on our EagleOne card.) But for the past few years, I’ve noticed that there are plenty of gaps where for some mysterious reason no picture is registered with you in the Banner system. We actually aren’t too bad — 15 out of 18 have pics, for both CPSC’ers and DATA’ers..<\/p>\n
So why am I telling you this? Because you can earn another easy and valuable +1XP<\/span> by providing me with a mug shot (meaning, a portrait of you looking fairly normal doing something interesting (or not) but most importantly: your face fully visible on the portrait. It can be a silly snapshot or your prom dress from high school: I just need a face to go with your name, man.)<\/p>\n For students who already have such a Banner mug shot, you have already been proactively awarded the aforementioned +1XP<\/span> on the scoreboard. If not, you can still claim this point if you follow these three directions:<\/p>\n