08 Aðustos 2021, Pazar
saat: 20:51
me, reading anything i write: why am i like this
this morning I started creating a rough fall syllabus with readings, assignments, and list of movies/books for each date. I also made an initial list of the "mini-lessons" I want to weave into different activities, which I can refer to once I actually get into lesson planning.
for syllabus stuff I still need to:
finalize and format the syllabus
upload all materials, and resources to Moodle
review and update the learning outcomes
contact friends and colleagues who may give guest lectures
after completing the rough schedule I will spend some time brainstorming some specs grading and process level stuff (especially around rubrics) that I want to tweak/update in order to address some issues that came up last year. I still need to figure out the logistics of how I’m implement those changes but I think it’ll just take an afternoon of experimenting to figure it out.
hmm and I will have to devote a few hours this month to updating and moving all of last year’s resources for the other class from the course page to this semester's Moodle page. I also need to create some new resources now that I have examples to draw in from last year’s student work.
all in all though, I'm in really good shape for the first week of August! I might come back to planning work later this afternoon, but for now I’m going to close this morning work session by making a running course prep to-do list. then I’m gonna create flyers for the Greece program! everything is starting to feel scary and uncertain again and I really really really hoped it was going to not feel that way anymore, but we still have need to do the work.
so. how does anyone have time or energy?
