... and then there was one.

My One week left. The project is in, more or less, minus a few more responses. What did I learn?

My thoughts in one-sentence forms: Assessing attitudes with any degree
of accuracy is a real pain.
I was wondering about the deliverable part, considering the level of
detail that I had tried to do, but I found that even with all that
detail, there was a lot that I didn't understand until I got to
putting together the slides. Lots of details that I didn't think of.
I'm not sure that I would ever take the assessments myself...
Good up-front planning makes the whole thing a lot easier. At least
the focus isn't on what to teach but how.
I really wish I had had time to do that Monty Python style animated
SME.

And a few more: I think the important one was about the planning. Like I said, it was still tough to get the thing done, the issue was delivery more than content. And it was really nice working with the group that I did, Carl and Kevin. I have a tendency to overdo, and they were good about being able to see when I was running too far afield. I was still thinking about that element of not making the assumptions that a teacher does about delivery of content--- (I can fix it on the fly.) It seems a bit double edged having worked through this: I think more about the exact content that I'm going to deliver, but as a result don't always write it down... 'Cause, after all, I thought it through more carefully.... Yeah, well.

I was also thinking about this as I was sketching up the idea for tomorrow's IDET class. I think I'm getting a little better at seeing the problems, but it also means that at some point I just say, "Run it once and find out if you are really seeing problems or just imagining them."

11:40 pm. Oh the crap that is coming up from my lungs today. Guess I better head for home. So I'll probably take one more crack at another posting- make it an even 12... or is it 13?

Tonight's haikus from an "attended" moment walking back from the shed, and an NPR moment that has stuck with me this week:

Southwest sunsetting

winter light warming breath clouds

both fading faster.

Hands releasing from

a fog dewed gun grey railing.

Now I want it? Now?