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Well this class I'm teaching on Wednesday will be interesting considering how the requester left me hanging for a month before getting back to me. And in it's a subject I've never taught. And it includes a library tour and *I've* never had a library tour. But anyway, let's go!
"we're going to learn TOGETHER!" - Jenica
This is business as usual, my friend. - Jason P
I'm learning that to be the case. - Derrick
My lead for tomorrow's class is definitely going to be "tell me about the projects you have coming up." - Hedgehog
Mine too, Hedge. - Jason P
Oof. I have one this afternoon where my approach is basically "I haven't been told much about what you folks are doing, so let's workshop this together because research is CHAOS and FUN, whee!" - Regular Amanda
Good to know I'm in good company. - Derrick
Yeah, this is all my new classes when I teach. #stress But it usually works out. #itsallgood - Eric - Final Countdown
Yep. What I know about tomorrow's grad class: their topics are "all over the map," and they have to write a "literature review, etc." - Jason P
totally SOP. This is why having a lesson plan that includes the phrase, "and then go from there" is a Good Idea. - Catherine Pellegrino
I've pulled together quite the lesson plan in two hours AND also found an instruction classroom that was open. I got this. - Derrick
Go, Derrick, go! - Anne Bouey
been there done that. in fact, I think that's gonna happen to ME on Wed. But I've taught this class to many other sections before. You'll rock it! - Stephan!e•CogSc!L!brar!an
Aw, Steve. Thanks man. The class in question is part of a special program for first year, first generation college students. These are communication and graphic design majors (mostly) and the assignment is Visual Literacy, so I'll be doing some stuff on comics and design, taking them to where art, photography, and other like work are housed (and giving them titles to find cause I'm interactive), so I think I'll be good. Thanks so much everyone. - Derrick
The class went well. So, again it was on visual literacy. I wrote call numbers of different art books I liked from when I was in school, Cindy Sherman, Mapplethorpe, vintage hip hop photographs, Jeff Koons, architecture, Robert Gober, etc. and had them find the books in the stacks. I had them convene in the classroom, look through the books and find images they found powerful, awesome, or disturbing and then talk about it. How does one "read" an image. Then we talked a bit about the history of the artists and their influences and then I went through some subject guides about how to find things. Went pretty well considering. - Derrick
Very different from what I usually do as well, but given what I had to go on (which wasn't much and this class is overseen by a senior level student) I tried to integrate the tour with books and call numbers, a little discussion and then some of the library resources. In fifty minutes, even. - Derrick
I wish I could have taken that! Sounds awesome. - Stephen Mack
Where do I sign up? - bentley
Derrick, dude, you ROCK. That is an awesome lesson plan, and one that I should think about emulating, especially in some hypothetical future class where students are working on super-sexy topics. I especially like the bit about "images they found powerful, awesome, or disturbing." - Catherine Pellegrino
Catherine, it was a lot of fun. And yeah, that one Cindy Sherman image the students shared was really kind of troubling once you started looking a little deeper. Thanks everyone! - Derrick
Wow that class sounds great but I must admit I am amazed that you managed to do all that in 50 minutes! How many students did you have? Was it difficult to wrangle them back into the classroom after having them roam the stacks? - Fiona Jones
Well the art books are all in one localized spot and I pretty much led them there from the beginning. Finding the books took maybe 5 minutes, then back upstairs to the classroom, so there really wasn't a lot of roaming. - Derrick