tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post2527221373338421671..comments2023-12-23T04:56:29.702-05:00Comments on Ferule & Fescue: A well-wrought urnFlaviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-15359373453084178242015-01-24T13:53:47.291-05:002015-01-24T13:53:47.291-05:00Sapience:
That's great. And that's a lot...Sapience: <br /><br />That's great. And that's a lot of my thinking, too--with classes I've taught before, naturally I have everything already figured out (and I try to upload all the assignments to our class website in advance), and it makes the semester so much less of a frantic, seat-of-the-pants experience. With this one, I still have a ton of things to figure out--lesson plans, etc.--but having a few things nailed down should be a big help.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-92021158680660733722015-01-22T10:41:04.446-05:002015-01-22T10:41:04.446-05:00I do this for every class, whenever I can. I'm...I do this for every class, whenever I can. I'm currently teaching in a program where in the middle of the semester, I'm usually so far behind on everything I don't have time to write up assignments with the kind of clarity and detail they need (and our assignments tend to be pretty complicated). So, now, my students get all the assignments, with all the detail, at the beginning of the semester in a giant assignment guide. The course schedule lists pages of the assignment guide as part of their regularly scheduled reading. It's made my life a *lot* easier as a result, and it tends to scare off the students who don't like to work at the beginning of the semester. ;)Sapiencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09259871146375570988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-89638271197672121752015-01-21T22:43:59.210-05:002015-01-21T22:43:59.210-05:00CPP:
No!!! I mean I wrote up all of the assignmen...CPP:<br /><br />No!!! I mean I <i>wrote up</i> all of the assignments (there are four big ones, and the instructions for each are long and complex).<br /><br />Maybe if I were I better teacher I would have tried to do each of them myself, or at least the two really weird new ones. . . but the process of mapping out all the stages of each did require a teeny bit of that (running some test searches on some databases; learning the capabilities of some electronic resources), so I guess I still got some of the flava.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-81140670410783265402015-01-21T20:15:43.128-05:002015-01-21T20:15:43.128-05:00You're saying that you actually did all the sh...You're saying that you actually did all the shittio writing assignments that you assigned to your students?!?! If so, I have two comments slash questions. <br /><br />(1) That's fucken looney tunes. <br /><br />(2) Did you get an A?? Comradde PhysioProffenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-2685631612459162872015-01-21T19:07:14.762-05:002015-01-21T19:07:14.762-05:00Bardiac--
I'm definitely pleased to have ever...Bardiac--<br /><br />I'm definitely pleased to have everything laid out for my students (esp. since there are a couple of points where they might want to be working on a couple of projects simultaneously)--but really it's for me! <br /><br />Generally I figure that I assign similar-enough assignments that it won't take me long to draft a new one for a new class (and it doesn't, even if I curse myself for my belatedness), but these are so different from what I've done before that my own ideas of what I was requiring (and of what might be doable) were too fuzzy without actually having written the damn thing.<br /><br />(So, impute less virtue to me...)Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-58698855227969671872015-01-21T18:08:39.554-05:002015-01-21T18:08:39.554-05:00Wow! Congratulations!Wow! Congratulations!Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849272391043604637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-57121959737399085342015-01-20T23:44:23.266-05:002015-01-20T23:44:23.266-05:00I did this for my Shakespeareans this semester. I ...I did this for my Shakespeareans this semester. I like having the assignments laid out at the beginning so they can plan ahead, but also, I really like knowing what I'm having them do so that I can tailor what we're doing a bit. Perhaps I'm naive, but I'm hoping that having the assignments early will get them to start thinking about them now. Gosh, I'm such an adult... planning is my adult thing. I was never a planner as a college kid. Fie upon this quiet life!https://www.blogger.com/profile/12047096700049201873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-11940735495923243042015-01-20T23:11:25.938-05:002015-01-20T23:11:25.938-05:00Good work!
I love having all the assignments in t...Good work!<br /><br />I love having all the assignments in the syllabus, for just the reasons you hint at: students can see how the class works as a whole to some extent, and where the map leads.Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.com