OK So That Was... Well It Was Something

[toosuto]

I am willing to entertain edumacational hijinx from other ejumacators on my f-list now. So I I figured that going over the syllabus, my expectations, our limitations (in terms of material) and general stuff would take up today's teaching time. It took 15 minutes out of 50. I did remember that we needed to assign drawers in the dark room which took another 5-7. Then I had nothing, and they had no questions yet. Tomorrow I am giving a brief (but hopefully not too brief) overview of the history of photography and maybe an introduction to camera mechanics... I have no idea how to stop today from happening to me again!

Fireflies, originally uploaded by toosuto.

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Filling in teaching time

[murfomurf.livejournal.com]

How about always having a few open questions in reserve probing what the students think and what THEIR expectations are? How do they think cameras work? DO any know how photography started? Do they know if there is more than B&W vs. colour? Did they do the course because they thought it would be easy- a doddle? Or because there is a family interest? What about career-minded people? Getting a visual aspect to their education so it is not all words or numbers? DO they know the names of local photographers? Famous ones? What different genres could be done in a class? What couldn't be? What about the relative expenses of different types of photography? How environmentally friendly is it? What other subjects might benefit from the use of photos? Go through the subjects available on campus- see if a use can be found in all of them...
I had years of lecturing 18- 21 year olds on child development and the number of times I didn't have enough ready couldn't be counted- just like the times I had too much!