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I realized earlier this week that I’ve figured out several workarounds for when I’m working on my school computer. With filtration that would have Mao crying foul mixed with a lack of administrative access to install programs or change settings, what works at home doesn’t at school. The setup PC: running Windows XP. Internets: Filtered. [...] The Setting Where: Small classroom When: 6 hours (with a one hour lunch break) Environment: 15 other new hires Format: professional development lecture supported by PowerPoint PPT format: 87 slides. White background. Black text. Bullets. Bullets. Bullets. Text. Text. Text. Maslow’s (modified) Hierarchy of Needs If I don’t have access to my room, colleagues who [...] A snippet from a conversation I had with a student this morning: Student: “This project is long.” Me: “That’s why I gave you so many days in class to work on it. I wanted you to have time to make it excellent.” Student: “Yeah, but this project is taking longer than when we just used [...] As promised in yesterday’s post, I’ve posted my before and after presentations that I made to go over basic Earth structure with my Earth & Physical Science classes. I’ve already used the updated presentation, and the students seemed to enjoy it better than the overly bullet-pointed first version. You may not be able to follow [...] It all started with dread. The last week or so, my classes have been covering material that I made PowerPoint slideshows for several years ago. While at the time, I put in lots of images and even embedded some video, I found myself dreading to give those presentations to my classes. I started pondering [...] |
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