tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post8587004644845875457..comments2024-01-28T03:35:51.182-05:00Comments on Reassigned Time: Itching for the Semester's End - A Post about TeachingDr. Crazyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12457967076373916629noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-21554168942239365622008-11-15T15:19:00.000-05:002008-11-15T15:19:00.000-05:00I too do 4 preps per semester, by choice. For many...I too do 4 preps per semester, by choice. For many of the same reasons, so reading your thoughts is helpful.<BR/><BR/>One thing for the online stuff: your experience sounds much like my own. For those times when you are saying the same things over and over, have you considered doing podcasts to provide that extra repetition for the .... laggards isn't the right word. Or is it?<BR/><BR/>I use some that I developed for a course I teach every two years. The students tell me that they use them a lot to remind themselves of what the various steps are, and they like the ability to get answers 24/7. Just a thought.Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849272391043604637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099192.post-86307454669938060492008-11-14T12:29:00.000-05:002008-11-14T12:29:00.000-05:00Well, as always, I appreciate what you have to say...Well, as always, I appreciate what you have to say about your work in the classroom. I also like teaching new courses; even when I teach the same course number the course undergoes a radical reinvention every semester (with one exception). I'm finally at the point that next year in my Upper Divison Course in My Field that I'll cycle back through some material I haven't done in about five years. What I do do to keep things "easier" for me is that I try to teach many of the same texts on a fairly regular rotation (though the context changes). I've taught Cool Memoir, for instance, in two incarnations of a gen ed course in my department, the intro to my field course, and will try it in a new gen ed course in the spring. That will make teaching the 5+ books I've never taught before much more pleasant and manageable :)gwinnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840990153103781272noreply@blogger.com