Recently I presented a lightning talk on the topic of lightning talks.
Yeah, I know, I'm not very creative with my topic ideas.
Thursday 19 July 2018
Wednesday 4 July 2018
Intermediate level Python workshop - review
It didn't go as terribly as I'd expected. I got lucky with my improvisation and pulled off some off fairly successful exercises. However, there were mistakes - so many mistakes. You can't help but admire the people at the top because of their incredible preparation.
Simply trying not to destroy your own workshop with a critical mistake requires hours upon hours of preparation. Devising a workshop where there are relatively few observable flaws is on a completely new level.
Unlike Starcraft, teaching doesn't have replays. The best you can do is write reflection blog posts after the fact about things that you remember. But the valuable lessons cannot be found in the things you remember. The valuable lessons can only be found in the things you didn't notice, or the oversights you made, or the things you forgot.
This is why I think it's really important to take a video of yourself when you're presenting so you can identify and revise flaws in your own teaching. I think the reason I can motivate myself to do this is because I've learned of the value of replays and how important it is to revise the things that you yourself failed to notice.
Watching replays of yourself exposes all your flaws. It's damned painful sometimes. But you've gotta do it. You've got to keep moving forward.
Simply trying not to destroy your own workshop with a critical mistake requires hours upon hours of preparation. Devising a workshop where there are relatively few observable flaws is on a completely new level.
Unlike Starcraft, teaching doesn't have replays. The best you can do is write reflection blog posts after the fact about things that you remember. But the valuable lessons cannot be found in the things you remember. The valuable lessons can only be found in the things you didn't notice, or the oversights you made, or the things you forgot.
This is why I think it's really important to take a video of yourself when you're presenting so you can identify and revise flaws in your own teaching. I think the reason I can motivate myself to do this is because I've learned of the value of replays and how important it is to revise the things that you yourself failed to notice.
Watching replays of yourself exposes all your flaws. It's damned painful sometimes. But you've gotta do it. You've got to keep moving forward.
Classroom visit
Recently I visited my friend's hs classroom (thanks alice!).
My time and motivation is so limited recently. I'll try to cut this down to just the most important things. I have way too many posts left in Draft state.
Without people, there is no motivation. I'm just blogging to an empty audience.
My time and motivation is so limited recently. I'll try to cut this down to just the most important things. I have way too many posts left in Draft state.
Without people, there is no motivation. I'm just blogging to an empty audience.
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