genevieve is…

So we started out today by talking about the “micro” teaching assignment each of us has to do tomorrow. Basically I just have to do a 15 minute lesson plan to five peers and an experienced instructor. This seems quite doable…my job is to introduce my course theme by using some sort of primary source. I’m going to focus particularly on research questions and how asking a certain set of research questions might lead me to my primary source because I feel like it’s rather impossible to just come up with a primary source when you haven’t thought of what you might like to research. So…I was thinking about using some examples of facebook groups to ask questions about whether it’s possible to have community on facebook and under what circumstances communities might exist given the rigid form each facebook group must conform to. I’m sure people have written about this sort of thing, but that doesn’t matter much; I just need to get people thinking about what kinds of limitations space might put on community development and what kinds of communities would seek certain spaces.

The second half of the morning and most of the afternoon (after a group picture and lunch provided by our publisher which was no other than Jimmy John’s because those mediocre sandwiches are following me) was spent in the computer lab giving us the opportunity to familiarize ourselves more with the library resources and Carmen aka D2L. It turns out that those awesome librarians have actually come up with some really nice resources for us, down to the powerpoints we can present and the activities we can have our students do in class and for homework. I love librarians! Especially when they make my job easier )

I admit that I have my entire D2L site set up, down to the grades all entered (we’re required to teach a pretty rigid curriculum so much of it was like data entry).

Oooh, I think it’s going to rain. It just got kind of dark in here. I’m picking Lisa up at the airport tonight at 10:30…I am currently counting down the minutes!!