Don't pee at me.
Walking along the street tonight, minding my own business...right there, a guy doing his.
Not that there is anything wrong with peeing outside, mind you. But onto a tree or into bushes, man. Not on a sidewalk.
So, after my Yossarian-like walk through Midtown tonight, I am trying to gird the strength to go into campus tomorrow. I have no choice, as I teach. Actually, I support a teacher in the afternoon. I am modelling good student behavior to students. As I take notes, they will be projected onto the screen at the side of the room, so that they can see what I am doing. It's a spiffy set-up and I am using the experimental classroom that I used (and hated only a little) last semester. It's the only room on campus that I have seen (admittedly, out of not that many) with an overhead projector, so it works.
Le sigh.
I've been playing with the Korg for the last few days, and holy crap does good compression and a noise gate make a difference! I have found sounds in there that blow my little mind. I have to say that I am partial to the bigger sounds (deep delay that fades in...I believe it's the one called "Cathedral"...god knows what I'll do with it) and then there is a subtle, basic phaser setting that seems like it would be a good base for any number of sounds. But, experimentation is the name of the game! Woohoo! (Seriously, if you could only hear what I hear through my headphones--well, you'd probably be deaf, but if you turned it down, you'd be impressed.)
HJ
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4 comments:
Wait, you have to show students "good student behavior"? Is it that they don't know that they are supposed to take notes, or don't they know how, or both? Is that normal in this modern world? Now I admit that the freshmen where I studied a long long time ago were given a test to make sure no barely-readers fell through the cracks, but surely people get the idea that they are supposed to pay attention to the classes they are paying for. Seriously, is this kind of instruction standard? (I've been out of the country for a long time.)
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Wait, you have to show students "good student behavior"? Is it that they don't know that they are supposed to take notes, or don't they know how, or both? Is that normal in this modern world? Now I admit that the freshmen where I studied a long long time ago were given a test to make sure no barely-readers fell through the cracks, but surely people get the idea that they are supposed to pay attention to the classes they are paying for. Seriously, is this kind of instruction standard? (I've been out of the country for a long time.)
I teach at a top-notch, first tier school in Atlanta. The kids are brilliant and very few of them would benefit from such a class. But there is another group of students with...non-academic talents that the institution finds desirable. This class is for them. The problem is that the students are of such a high caliber here that even good high school students may find themselves overwhelmed, and these students are at a special disadvantage. So we want to help them "pass" as students. We are drilling them in the fundamentals of studentship. I think that we are doing alright so far, but we aren't going to undo 12 years of bad habits. We are teaching the habits of highly successful students, essentially. ("Know what your grade is at all times." "Make and keep appointments." "Your instructors like their topics, so talk to them about it." "Librarians are the most important resource at the library.") Most kids know this, so don't panic. This is an experimental course designed for a small subset of students.
HJ
Boy, I sure would be more understandable if my pronoun references were...there at all.
HJ
Thanks for the clarification.
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