End of Week 1...
Today has been a bit hectic...
Class went well last night....tons of reading and intimidating case presentations. But I'll like the class. The prof is a Lacanian (and my supervisor from last year) so we're of course paying lots of attention to slips of the tongue. And we got to talk about our Oedipal Underwear idea.
The cat "expressed himself" on the professor's book...to which he replied: Well, then, double royalties for me!
I got here at 7:30 this morning for an 8:00 that didn't happen.
The DVD did in fact work, but the freaking volume is set WAY too high in the classroom, and you can't get up there to change it. I had students on desks trying. Eventually a professor showed up and asked if I could turn it down (I had already told my students that it was only a matter of time, and I tried to just show the most relevant clip.) I politely invited him to help me with the volume. He tried and failed.
The discusison didn't go so well...after reading over their written reflections, they were thinking on a pretty high level, but I think that they're still scared freshman and not quite ready for big discussions. Next time, I'll put them in small groups instead. Less scary for them.
Right now, I'm summarizing their reflections into a handout for all of them. Goddamn time-consuming feminist value system! It's so much easier to not care if students have a voice ;).
I ran into two of my students from the Spring (I had 7 last semester) and that cheered me up. Both have changed to Psych majors and said that they missed my class. I really like students!
And in a final piece of good news, the Cult Book Lady came yesterday and I am now the proud owner of $220!!!!!!!! (The textbook companies send us all these free copies that say "not for resale." The Cult Book Lady doesn't care...)
Back to work for me....
Class went well last night....tons of reading and intimidating case presentations. But I'll like the class. The prof is a Lacanian (and my supervisor from last year) so we're of course paying lots of attention to slips of the tongue. And we got to talk about our Oedipal Underwear idea.
The cat "expressed himself" on the professor's book...to which he replied: Well, then, double royalties for me!
I got here at 7:30 this morning for an 8:00 that didn't happen.
The DVD did in fact work, but the freaking volume is set WAY too high in the classroom, and you can't get up there to change it. I had students on desks trying. Eventually a professor showed up and asked if I could turn it down (I had already told my students that it was only a matter of time, and I tried to just show the most relevant clip.) I politely invited him to help me with the volume. He tried and failed.
The discusison didn't go so well...after reading over their written reflections, they were thinking on a pretty high level, but I think that they're still scared freshman and not quite ready for big discussions. Next time, I'll put them in small groups instead. Less scary for them.
Right now, I'm summarizing their reflections into a handout for all of them. Goddamn time-consuming feminist value system! It's so much easier to not care if students have a voice ;).
I ran into two of my students from the Spring (I had 7 last semester) and that cheered me up. Both have changed to Psych majors and said that they missed my class. I really like students!
And in a final piece of good news, the Cult Book Lady came yesterday and I am now the proud owner of $220!!!!!!!! (The textbook companies send us all these free copies that say "not for resale." The Cult Book Lady doesn't care...)
Back to work for me....
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