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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Jan. 18th, 2011 10:35 pmFirst day of school. I feel I just got done with folder review and here we go again getting up at 6:30.
The morning was really dreadful in weather. First it was sort of rainy, that in between rain and snow sleet that makes the roads icy. It was really hard to walk on campus, especially in the morning. One had to walk very very slowly and careful and sometimes ice skate so as not to fall. By about eleven the roads turned into sludge and the rain kept pouring. I actually preferred sludge to ice. This will not be a fun week.
In the morning I caught up on HIMYM episode (which was moving) and got breakfast before my non-stop day of photocopying and getting ready for all my classes – both writing and history since the University were I teach my writing classes has a better and more accessible copy machine. I bought index card holder to go with my index card where students put their personal information for my easy use. I photocopied syllabi, reading guides, grammar presentation sign up sheets, rosters and notes for tomorrow and some readings to put online for my history class. I had a whole big list which I worked through. I also went to the other campus to finally turn in all the financial paperwork that we have to fill out every semester. (In the sludge. At least another professor was heading there and she gave me a ride. I took the bus back.)
Then I got lunch and went to teach my two writing classes. I do have a nice group of students and I can already tell that I will like my second class a bit more; they are friendlier and the room is better. For the first class, only one person bought the book already so we couldn’t do a reading exercise I wanted. I let them go early. For the second class, I made photocopies of the pages I wanted them to read so we had a better discussion.
So I’m assigning that Jenkins article on Harry Potter wars and the intersection of the old and new media. In each class, maybe five people actually read Harry Potter, not that it matters for the purposes of this class. They need to analyze the article in front of them, no matter the context. I just find it weird since they were children right in the midst of the craze.
I also felt very weird and jarring to have to explain what ‘fandom’ meant. I’ve been living in the fan world for at least the last five years and the high percentage of my internet use is fandom related, mostly TV and books. And I did start with Harry Potter although I was a Star Trek fan since my teenage years and went to a Star Trek convention right before I turned sixteen. And I live in my head so much that I really forget that most people use internet differently. But I went around the room and make each figure out if they were fans of anything and then what would it mean to be part of ‘fandom.’ One guy who said he was a fan of Batman found the idea of going online and talking about Batman weird and too nerdy. Hee. I kept thinking of Bear’s Joker animation of “The Killing Joke.” I am looking forward to the discussion of this article to see what they think of this world foreign to them.
Exercise: 30 min on Wii. The Island Run was a bit too long for me – 11 minutes, I get bored easily, I’d rather do the bike I think. But it was nice to do something physical after being so brain tired from work.
Cross stitch: light green today for little bear’s pajamas.
The morning was really dreadful in weather. First it was sort of rainy, that in between rain and snow sleet that makes the roads icy. It was really hard to walk on campus, especially in the morning. One had to walk very very slowly and careful and sometimes ice skate so as not to fall. By about eleven the roads turned into sludge and the rain kept pouring. I actually preferred sludge to ice. This will not be a fun week.
In the morning I caught up on HIMYM episode (which was moving) and got breakfast before my non-stop day of photocopying and getting ready for all my classes – both writing and history since the University were I teach my writing classes has a better and more accessible copy machine. I bought index card holder to go with my index card where students put their personal information for my easy use. I photocopied syllabi, reading guides, grammar presentation sign up sheets, rosters and notes for tomorrow and some readings to put online for my history class. I had a whole big list which I worked through. I also went to the other campus to finally turn in all the financial paperwork that we have to fill out every semester. (In the sludge. At least another professor was heading there and she gave me a ride. I took the bus back.)
Then I got lunch and went to teach my two writing classes. I do have a nice group of students and I can already tell that I will like my second class a bit more; they are friendlier and the room is better. For the first class, only one person bought the book already so we couldn’t do a reading exercise I wanted. I let them go early. For the second class, I made photocopies of the pages I wanted them to read so we had a better discussion.
So I’m assigning that Jenkins article on Harry Potter wars and the intersection of the old and new media. In each class, maybe five people actually read Harry Potter, not that it matters for the purposes of this class. They need to analyze the article in front of them, no matter the context. I just find it weird since they were children right in the midst of the craze.
I also felt very weird and jarring to have to explain what ‘fandom’ meant. I’ve been living in the fan world for at least the last five years and the high percentage of my internet use is fandom related, mostly TV and books. And I did start with Harry Potter although I was a Star Trek fan since my teenage years and went to a Star Trek convention right before I turned sixteen. And I live in my head so much that I really forget that most people use internet differently. But I went around the room and make each figure out if they were fans of anything and then what would it mean to be part of ‘fandom.’ One guy who said he was a fan of Batman found the idea of going online and talking about Batman weird and too nerdy. Hee. I kept thinking of Bear’s Joker animation of “The Killing Joke.” I am looking forward to the discussion of this article to see what they think of this world foreign to them.
Exercise: 30 min on Wii. The Island Run was a bit too long for me – 11 minutes, I get bored easily, I’d rather do the bike I think. But it was nice to do something physical after being so brain tired from work.
Cross stitch: light green today for little bear’s pajamas.
