Summer Goals
It’s been ages and ages since I’ve posted anything. A good month or so. I was busy the last month on wrapping up the semester. The semester ending went pretty well. I was pleasantly surprised by my students’ final exams in the public speaking class. I was, however, disappointed in their final speeches. So I need to reverse engineer what I did to get them ready for their exam and apply it to their speeches. But I felt good with my final grades, despite the high number of F’s and D’s that I had to give out.
I have several goals for this summer (not in order of priority):
1. Clean out my home office so that the space is manageable and I can dust regularly. This includes unpacking boxes from my LSU office that have been in here for a year now. I intend to do this one corner at a time. One shelf or drawer at a time. Here and there, so that it doesn’t become overwhelming. I intend to THROW THINGS OUT.
2. Revise my courses for BRCC along the lines of “significant learning” by L. Dee Fink. That entails, of course, finishing the book, which I have yet to do.
3. Add a couple more teaching pages to my Voxygen site regarding creating a classroom culture, listing activities that I use, etc.
4. Learn how to eat right and lose weight. I figure, I learned how not to drink, I learned how to manage my money, I learned how to be on time. I am no longer a flake. So perhaps I have enough structure in my life to learn how to eat right and go on a diet that will actually work. We’ll see how this turns out, of course.
5. Clean up the clutter spots in my house.
These are all ambitious goals, but I’m not really doing anything this summer besides gaming, so I should have plenty of time to accomplish my goals, or at least make strong headway on them.
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Hey, I was wondering how you’re doing!
I’m developing some materials for a workshop on teaching with technology that is based on the Fink book. Basically, we’re creating worksheets and activities to help participants work through those initial five steps in the design process. Maybe it’ll be easier for you to get through the book if you have the worksheets.
Cheers,
Cris