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Jun. 17th, 2007 07:39 pmI've decided to see how long it takes to stretch Russell's nerves from gentle fretting to a complete nervous breakdown. I'm a good friend, aren't I?
Today I taught the second day of worldbuilding. If yesterday was intensive teaching, today was doubly so. During the two days, I taught three different approaches so that students could pick the one that suited their research and writing style plus their world-building needs. We made lots of maps and I have much less butcher's paper cluttering my work area. Mostly, though, I taught them to extrapolate from what they understood and how to extend their understanding. We talked about everything from water flow to educating the elite.
The thing I've learned (which I already knew, but keep forgetting) is that I can't do much work of an evening when I have spent the full day teaching. It takes physical and emotional energy. I kept up a steady stream of bad jokes, too, which must have been taxing.
My printer went on strike this morning, so I couldn't print out this. Same thing happened the day before I left for Convergence, so I didn't get to hand it out there or in my course, but I did promise people I would link to it and so I have and all is well. All is well for everyone except Russell, who is going to be noble and generous yet again and defer to the fact that I can hardly type straight.
Today I taught the second day of worldbuilding. If yesterday was intensive teaching, today was doubly so. During the two days, I taught three different approaches so that students could pick the one that suited their research and writing style plus their world-building needs. We made lots of maps and I have much less butcher's paper cluttering my work area. Mostly, though, I taught them to extrapolate from what they understood and how to extend their understanding. We talked about everything from water flow to educating the elite.
The thing I've learned (which I already knew, but keep forgetting) is that I can't do much work of an evening when I have spent the full day teaching. It takes physical and emotional energy. I kept up a steady stream of bad jokes, too, which must have been taxing.
My printer went on strike this morning, so I couldn't print out this. Same thing happened the day before I left for Convergence, so I didn't get to hand it out there or in my course, but I did promise people I would link to it and so I have and all is well. All is well for everyone except Russell, who is going to be noble and generous yet again and defer to the fact that I can hardly type straight.