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Monday, January 3, 2011
Jan. 3rd, 2011 09:45 pmNot going on the internet until 6pm except for work stuff is a really useful resolution. Go work! I need to keep maintaining this. I had a good productive day alternating my own writing with my Global class prep.
This morning, I called Professor S. who is teaching the other section of Global class since I needed to see if the books had come in already. And they have. So I went to Local College and got my books in addition to other books I could scan online. In the next two weeks I need to read the Silk Road book (it is short so I will read a chapter a day and finish it on Saturday) and I will read Marco Polo once I finish my second Riverworld book. I already read the first chapter of Silk Road book and I like it. Prof. S. doesn’t want to make students buy the whole book, but I think I will include some chapters in PDF on their online site for them to read. I was working on the class plan for my first class today and I think I will actually use that ‘town meeting scene’ from “Nightmare Before Christmas” to introduce the concept of how we all view things from with our own cultural baggage before I will bring up one primary source that we could discuss. Bear promised to burn that scene for me off my DVD so I can put it into Powerpoint for easy access.
Anthony Grafton, “History Under Attack” Perspectives on History , January 2011 - a really great article that defends why history and history teaching and research is relevant in our society and in academia. The link only works if you are a member of American Historical Association so I will copy it here because it was such a great article.
( Grafton article )
Exercise: 30 minutes Yoga on Wii (I have a 30 minutes routine set, which I haven’t done in a long time. It was a nice change of pace. I miss my Yoga class.)
Cross-stitch: all eyes and noses in satin stitch are done.
This morning, I called Professor S. who is teaching the other section of Global class since I needed to see if the books had come in already. And they have. So I went to Local College and got my books in addition to other books I could scan online. In the next two weeks I need to read the Silk Road book (it is short so I will read a chapter a day and finish it on Saturday) and I will read Marco Polo once I finish my second Riverworld book. I already read the first chapter of Silk Road book and I like it. Prof. S. doesn’t want to make students buy the whole book, but I think I will include some chapters in PDF on their online site for them to read. I was working on the class plan for my first class today and I think I will actually use that ‘town meeting scene’ from “Nightmare Before Christmas” to introduce the concept of how we all view things from with our own cultural baggage before I will bring up one primary source that we could discuss. Bear promised to burn that scene for me off my DVD so I can put it into Powerpoint for easy access.
Anthony Grafton, “History Under Attack” Perspectives on History , January 2011 - a really great article that defends why history and history teaching and research is relevant in our society and in academia. The link only works if you are a member of American Historical Association so I will copy it here because it was such a great article.
( Grafton article )
Exercise: 30 minutes Yoga on Wii (I have a 30 minutes routine set, which I haven’t done in a long time. It was a nice change of pace. I miss my Yoga class.)
Cross-stitch: all eyes and noses in satin stitch are done.
