July 27, 2008
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First response: Overwhelmed!
Second response: Need a plan-of-attack!
Third response/theme: Quality of prep time over quantity!> How much time should I really spend prepping for fall?
> How much time should I spend revising my eCompanion shells (because I could potentially spend too much time with those)? I need to figure exactly what and how I’m going to revise them before I get online…
> How much time do I spend prepping the new class (1 credit, First-Year-Experience,…once a week)?Reason for questions: I think I typically over-prep. I think I also need to take my eCompanion shells and make them as malleable as possible (so when I switch up my themes/topics/books, I can easily incorporate them into eCompanion without much hassle). For sure, the English 110 eCompanion needs to go from weeks to units. And maybe I should really think of that course in chunks… 7 of ‘em, for example. Seven units instead of trying to plan out each week way before that week even pops up in my life. And perhaps the English 120 eCompanion (on-campus) needs a similar structure, although I don’t want to change that up so much that it’s too different from the online one.
Prepping for fall mentally = It’s like working out physically: “WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER.”
Estimates… I think revising English 110 (since it’s a new theme) will take the most time. Perhaps 3 days of prep (say, this week). Then English 120 (on-campus) would take maybe 2 days… English 105, maybe 2 days at the most. The new class? Maybe 2 days at the max? (All next week…?) I’d like to try to have my syllabi over to the Copy Center no later than Friday, August 15…
