When you are speaking, I will not interrupt you. It is rude to interrupt someone. When I am speaking, I ask for the same courtesy. Please do not talk while I am talking. Playing computer games or surfing the net are on the same level as talking in class. Please don't do these things, or I will ask you to leave and return when you are ready to join the class. Teachers react to the students in their classes. If the class seems uninterested, the teacher will become uninteresting. We aren't televisions, who keep on talking at you quite happily even when you are busy doing something else. When you laugh, yawn, sleep, or doodle, we feel that there is no point in talking. We even give up on trying to make the material interesting. What's the point if no one gives you any encouragement? When you're listening to a lecture, remember that this is material that is important for you to know. Try to relate to what is being said. Ask yourself if you agree or disagree with the teacher. It can be more fun, and intellectually challenging, to try to pick holes in the teacher's lecture: this is better for everyone than just tuning out. It doesn't hurt to nod occasionally, and it really helps to smile at the teacher or ask a good question. A good part of your working life will be spent listening to bosses, conference presenters, and other people who are speaking at you. Better get used to coping with it right now. Who knows, you may develop a real appreciation of a good lecture.
My students tell me that I can be quite funny sometimes. But many of the concepts that I must teach you are complicated, abstract, and...yes... boring. This is not a reason to avoid learning them. Many essential skills aren't that interesting to learn. For example, if you play the guitar or piano, you had to go through a boring stage of learning chords or scales. If you are an athlete, I'm sure there were times you had to force yourself to work out, stick with your training regimen, or jog that extra quarter-mile. Your education and future career are at least equally as important as your physical fitness and leisure-time activities. You will need to acquire the maturity, patience, and persistence to keep your interest going even when the lectures get boring. Trust me, I won't try to make you learn anything you don't need to know in order to make a good salary when you leave John Abbott. This isn't high school, where you had to read Shakespeare and do math equations even though you couldn't see how these things could possibly be useful in your life. Because I used to be an office manager, I have a pretty good idea of the business and web design skills that can earn you real money.
Once I teach something, I try to return to it again. That's called the ‘spiral teaching method'. This way, you can practice something a year or so later and you won't forget about it by the time you graduate. The second time we do something, I usually go into it a bit deeper and in more detail. But there are so many things to cover, especially in word processing, that I can't always return to a topic after I teach it. This doesn't mean that your boss on stage or at work won't expect you to know it perfectly! You will be expected to know these things, particularly if you want to earn a promotion. So it will be up to you to remember what you have covered in each class and practice the functions and skills that you have learned. You will need to do this practicing on your own, over the summer holidays or at other times. It's not realistic to think that you will remember your HTML tags from third semester perfectly when you graduate. You will need to find an opportunity to practice and keep your skill levels up.