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Feb. 14th, 2014 02:39 pmI believe I can now say with absolute conviction that I can't sleep the night before I have to be at work hideously early. I couldn't do it for two years for P&R and I couldn't do it for the curriculum blueprint meeting in September, and I couldn't do it for the curriculum design workshop this morning. (Although there was a lot of light coming off the snow outside, too, and that woke me up once.) I'm debating whether I should caffeinate myself like mad and stay up late tonight getting stuff done, or whether I should go home and collapse and get stuff done sometime like Sunday afternoon, after it gets done snowing. Speaking of which, is it ever going to give up snowing once or twice a week?
The workshop was fascinating, and I got to both learn stuff and help figure some things out for the CE course. That's the next great big hairy thing with warts on it, but it's not happening until April, so I don't have to actively worry about it all the time yet. The current course design model is to start by figuring out what you want the audience to learn, and then working backward and figuring out how to teach it to them. A CE course is different because instead of being a captive audience (thou shalt attend this course if you want a dental degree), it's an audience that wants specific things, and won't think the course is worthwhile if it doesn't get those things out of it. So before first, you figure out what the audience wants, and then you figure out whether it's what you want to tell them, and THEN you figure out how.
I seem to be completely over Shame You're (Still) Single Day. Partly I've had other things on my mind, but mostly I don't even care these days. I've given up wanting Orlando Bloom to fall through my ceiling (as an abstract concept; I don't want to deal with the real Orlando Bloom and the baggage thereof), and I'm OK with the fact that nobody's beating down my door to date me. I've decided dating is too much like playing mao; too many rules you don't find out about until you break one inadvertently, and I don't have the patience for that on a this-will-affect-the-rest-of-my-life scale. Granted, I may be somewhat biased due to exposure to polyamory.
Never mind. The point is, I'm willfully missing the commercial point of February 14. And I'm fine with that.
The workshop was fascinating, and I got to both learn stuff and help figure some things out for the CE course. That's the next great big hairy thing with warts on it, but it's not happening until April, so I don't have to actively worry about it all the time yet. The current course design model is to start by figuring out what you want the audience to learn, and then working backward and figuring out how to teach it to them. A CE course is different because instead of being a captive audience (thou shalt attend this course if you want a dental degree), it's an audience that wants specific things, and won't think the course is worthwhile if it doesn't get those things out of it. So before first, you figure out what the audience wants, and then you figure out whether it's what you want to tell them, and THEN you figure out how.
I seem to be completely over Shame You're (Still) Single Day. Partly I've had other things on my mind, but mostly I don't even care these days. I've given up wanting Orlando Bloom to fall through my ceiling (as an abstract concept; I don't want to deal with the real Orlando Bloom and the baggage thereof), and I'm OK with the fact that nobody's beating down my door to date me. I've decided dating is too much like playing mao; too many rules you don't find out about until you break one inadvertently, and I don't have the patience for that on a this-will-affect-the-rest-of-my-life scale. Granted, I may be somewhat biased due to exposure to polyamory.
Never mind. The point is, I'm willfully missing the commercial point of February 14. And I'm fine with that.
