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Typical Day
Sep. 15th, 2005 06:35 pmAnother typical day today.
I had pumpkin pie and milk for breakfast. Mmm, vitamin A.
Read through hideous instructional design book on the way to work. (Don't worry—I don't drive to work. I ride a bus.) The chapters on visual aids are pretty good. (Hee hee, they don't want me to call them visual aids. Because they are not aids, they are integral! I am such a rebel.) Got distracted imagining being taught how to take notes by actually watching someone take notes (on an overhead projector) while listening to a recorded lecture.
The first day, the lesson would cover the system where you write as much as you can. Then have a student come up to the overhead and try it. Then have a discussion. Then have all students try this method at their desks. Tell them for homework they need to look over their notes, clear them up while they can still remember what happened, and study for a quiz the next day. The next day have a short quiz with both fact and thought questions. Of course the topic is something interesting and useful that they will also need to know.
Then show how to take minimal, summarizing notes in more of an outline form. Some of these would have to be funny, like "Custer is toast." Then have students practice, study, take quiz.
The next day explain the system where you don't take any notes. You just listen carefully. The homework is to write notes at home while you can still remember, then study them for a quiz. Then students can look at their quizzes to see if one kind of note taking is clearly better or worse for them than the others.
Have students discuss additional styles of notetaking and favorite abbreviatons, etc.
Went to work, entered some data. Went to a meeting and had a bagel. Mmm, cream cheese. Wrote up the minutes, passed them on for review. Mailed handouts to those who missed the meeting.
Had lunch with a friend. Mmm, pizza. Got to witness "Firefly" comic buying adventure--apparently these sell as fast as they come in.
Went back to work. Got editing suggestions. Fixed minutes. Uploaded them to the web. Sent message to group with attached group member directory. Worked on rule type training module. Ate leftover bagel for a snack. Mmm, raisins. Did preliminary calculation on how much extra I can save toward retirement after this raise.
Went home. On the way, read more of hideous instruction design book. Got distracted remembering a lesson plan I did which my instructor said was too out of control. Fantasized about filming such a lesson. While studying the solar system, have the students go outside or push the desks to the edge of the classroom. Ask who wants to be the sun. Choose one to stand near the center of the room, slowly turning in a circle. Ask who wants to be Mercury. Have Mercury stand near the sun, facing the sun. Have Mercury sidestep around the sun, always facing the sun. Continue until you have all the planets, at least some of the moons, and the remainder of the class is the asteroid belt.
Had dinner--scrambled eggs, veggie sausage, and sharp cheese. Had grape juice.
Decided to work on journal entry. First checked out Treehugger and other sites for inspiration, which I never get. Got distracted by yet another article on a car modified to use less gas, only this one is funny.
Soon I will leave for dance class where I will be working on continuous foxtrot. Continuous means you never change weight with your feet together. This means you are really travelling across the floor in the fast lane.
Then I will go to HEB and have Robin check out their veggie and fish grilling cages while I am picking up cheap hotdogs and a spray can of olive oil.
Then if we are bad we will watch the rest of the movie we started yesterday. Then bed time.
The end.
I had pumpkin pie and milk for breakfast. Mmm, vitamin A.
Read through hideous instructional design book on the way to work. (Don't worry—I don't drive to work. I ride a bus.) The chapters on visual aids are pretty good. (Hee hee, they don't want me to call them visual aids. Because they are not aids, they are integral! I am such a rebel.) Got distracted imagining being taught how to take notes by actually watching someone take notes (on an overhead projector) while listening to a recorded lecture.
The first day, the lesson would cover the system where you write as much as you can. Then have a student come up to the overhead and try it. Then have a discussion. Then have all students try this method at their desks. Tell them for homework they need to look over their notes, clear them up while they can still remember what happened, and study for a quiz the next day. The next day have a short quiz with both fact and thought questions. Of course the topic is something interesting and useful that they will also need to know.
Then show how to take minimal, summarizing notes in more of an outline form. Some of these would have to be funny, like "Custer is toast." Then have students practice, study, take quiz.
The next day explain the system where you don't take any notes. You just listen carefully. The homework is to write notes at home while you can still remember, then study them for a quiz. Then students can look at their quizzes to see if one kind of note taking is clearly better or worse for them than the others.
Have students discuss additional styles of notetaking and favorite abbreviatons, etc.
Went to work, entered some data. Went to a meeting and had a bagel. Mmm, cream cheese. Wrote up the minutes, passed them on for review. Mailed handouts to those who missed the meeting.
Had lunch with a friend. Mmm, pizza. Got to witness "Firefly" comic buying adventure--apparently these sell as fast as they come in.
Went back to work. Got editing suggestions. Fixed minutes. Uploaded them to the web. Sent message to group with attached group member directory. Worked on rule type training module. Ate leftover bagel for a snack. Mmm, raisins. Did preliminary calculation on how much extra I can save toward retirement after this raise.
Went home. On the way, read more of hideous instruction design book. Got distracted remembering a lesson plan I did which my instructor said was too out of control. Fantasized about filming such a lesson. While studying the solar system, have the students go outside or push the desks to the edge of the classroom. Ask who wants to be the sun. Choose one to stand near the center of the room, slowly turning in a circle. Ask who wants to be Mercury. Have Mercury stand near the sun, facing the sun. Have Mercury sidestep around the sun, always facing the sun. Continue until you have all the planets, at least some of the moons, and the remainder of the class is the asteroid belt.
Had dinner--scrambled eggs, veggie sausage, and sharp cheese. Had grape juice.
Decided to work on journal entry. First checked out Treehugger and other sites for inspiration, which I never get. Got distracted by yet another article on a car modified to use less gas, only this one is funny.
Soon I will leave for dance class where I will be working on continuous foxtrot. Continuous means you never change weight with your feet together. This means you are really travelling across the floor in the fast lane.
Then I will go to HEB and have Robin check out their veggie and fish grilling cages while I am picking up cheap hotdogs and a spray can of olive oil.
Then if we are bad we will watch the rest of the movie we started yesterday. Then bed time.
The end.