What a week! Ok so not so much for my masters work but otherwise it was exceptional. I spent the week in Green Bay learning advanced usage of Solidworks, ArchiCad, Google Sketchup Pro and a little A+Cad. The downer of the week was the 790 question, 5 hour test on Friday for ADDA certification. I actually spent 16 hours studying for this test. If I don't pass I'll be pissed.
The beauty of the week was that I got to see what a school is capable of when it has stupid money. Bay Port High School is a gorgeous school with loads of beautiful toys to play with. What most other schools can only dream of, they had. The sad part was that much of it was not used to the extent in which it should have been. That is a story best left for another day though.
As for the work we will be doing and have done. I'm not good at presentations and have actually spent a lot of my career so far avoiding them and finding ways in which I am good at to present information to my students. I have seen how effective quality presentations can be and have always been envious of people who were able to create quality presentations. It is my supreme hope and desire that with the teachings of this class that I will be able to at least get into the serviceable range and can then continue to learn and improve to the point where someday I will actually consider myself good at these. The scary part is that by the time I'm good at these they will likely be outdated and it won't matter anyways.
I think that the idea of Presentation Zen is a great idea and it is a method by which I can logically make sense of the instruction and apply it to my own presentations. I am excited to delve into this curriculum and become a true "Zen" like presentor. In addition, I have often heard of people completing the picture a day task and have often thought about how I wished I would be better at taking pictures as it is always neat to look back and see where I had been over the last month. I'm always so busy that it is easy for me to forget what I did and when I did it and pictures are such a great way of adding a visual stimuli that will spur those memories. I look forward to the conclussion of this task and looking back at not only what I've done over the last month but also to look back and see my growth as a photographer over that span.
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The fun of trying out the picture a day is that there are no bad pictures. I too have found myself grabbing the camera more often and snapping pictures everywhere. In fact I think I've taken over 150 pictures in the past 18 days - I don't think I usually take that many in the span of a year. Thank goodness we now have digital cameras or I would be broke from all the film and developing!
ReplyDeleteI also think that your plan of moving forward with presentations is great. If we fear mastering a skill because it may be outdated by the time we get there than no growth will ever occur. It's unfortunate that as we start the race the finish line is continually moved farther away but I guess that's what life long learning is all about!