Comments on: dy/av : 003 : on the office /2008/dyav-003-on-the-office/ less helpful Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: kate /2008/dyav-003-on-the-office/#comment-241807 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:43:07 +0000 /?p=851#comment-241807 Dan Thank you for your blog and your vodcasts. It has been fantastic to find your emphasis on quality teaching. I will be using this video in a presentation in grad school ( with full credit to you I assure-) as we are completing a course on classroom management. I have long thought the “don’t smile before Christmas” myth to be irrelevant. I hope this catches the attention of my class. :)

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]]> By: Per /2008/dyav-003-on-the-office/#comment-125781 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:57:41 +0000 /?p=851#comment-125781 I (and most of my friends) have some new courses and some old ones. Since that is what I know I cant really say how the dynamic changes if you have all new but I can speculate.

I think it would take you longer to find your flow if you have all new classes since you will have to spend more time on the low level problems (what problem should I use to teach the law of cosine) so you don’t have time to reflect on the more higher level question (My 2nd period class is much more engaged than my 4th, what is the difference and how do I adapt?)

In my opinion you need to fight to find time to reflect on the higher level and you cant do that until you have some premade preps to save you that time and some experience with many situations to think about.

But I do hope that all new classes a few years in doesn’t feel as hard as the 1st year since I am transferring from a regular Swedish high school to an IB school this fall and I will have a new syllabus and I will go from teaching in Swedish to English…. Wish me luck ;-)

]]> By: JackieB /2008/dyav-003-on-the-office/#comment-125741 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:44:31 +0000 /?p=851#comment-125741 Per, it sounds like you are teaching the same classes from year to year. How does that dynamic change if that’s not the case?

]]> By: dan /2008/dyav-003-on-the-office/#comment-125730 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:11:14 +0000 /?p=851#comment-125730 @Tim S.: Film has always been an abiding interest and occasional pay-job for me. Lately it’s been a bit obsessive.

I have a behind-the-scenes episode scheduled somewhere in the latter half of the season but it focuses mostly on the structure of creating a vodcast and how that relates to structuring a lesson.

If I were to run a technical clinic is there anything in particular you’d like to see? (I use a Canon GL-2, which I steal from a nearby camp. I have a $100 microphone. And I use Final Cut Pro + Adobe Photoshop + Adobe AfterEffects.)

@Nate: what bomb? where?

@Matt: if I wanted to could go back and add a title card linking to your CSI rebuttal, I would. Great stuff.

@Christian: Dang, Christian, we’re just not meeting anywhere lately. Resist the vogue temptation to hate on remakes and, particularly, American remake. We ate the UK’s fish-n-chips with this, I promise. They went, what, like sixteen episodes? Way to go, mates.

]]> By: Christian Long /2008/dyav-003-on-the-office/#comment-125721 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:45:52 +0000 /?p=851#comment-125721 Personally, I ache to go back to the 1st season of the BBC version.

If you could give me a tenured Ricky Gervais roaming the school hallways, late bell whistle in hand and all, able to dodge the the necessary etiquette police in Wed afternoon faculty meetings, I’d be all about re-calibrating the worshiping curve on this one.

Plus, he might bring his guitar:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/06/20/the-office-bbc-episode-4/

And you know kids just love educators who play guitar.

]]> By: Matt Bardoe /2008/dyav-003-on-the-office/#comment-125703 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:16:24 +0000 /?p=851#comment-125703 Teaching techniques that I have learned from CSI Miami.

1. How to put on/take off sunglasses to make a point.
2. How to dress like a pro (I think we all know what I mean).
3. How to use the nifty computer where I can move things with my hands.
4. How to deal with Brazilian Gang Members (shoot them).
5. How to deal with comatose (or actually dead) students with real empathy.

Just saying there are things to learn everywhere.

Matt

]]> By: ken /2008/dyav-003-on-the-office/#comment-125660 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:31:45 +0000 /?p=851#comment-125660 I like to smile. Mommy says it’s one of my most redeeming qualities.

In the early 1990s, education professors over at Temple University warned us not to smile. In fact, I took a class where I had to “teach” in front of other would-be teachers. Videotaped the lesson and had to create a time teaching vs. overt facial expressions chart.

True story.
Sad story.

I would have cried about it, but it would have cost me a full letter grade.

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