Summer Classes
May. 30th, 2010 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zhieI never teach in the summer, since my course doesn't translate well to a six week course. So summer is for me to be a student. [I never cease being a librarian, lol] (I need two certification credits every three years, plus for every sixteen continuing education credits I take, I move up another step on the pay scale. Basically, if you want a raise, you have to do a little work for it.)
Last summer, I took ten credits, two for certification, and the rest to move up to my next level. So I'm back at zero again for both. This summer, I'm taking five; I figure if I spread things out, and do 5-5-6, I can keep a pretty good three-year schedule.
One class is advanced Word, another is advanced Excel. Specifically, the 2007 versions were so different than anything before, I've been retaking all the MS Office stuff to pick up all the new and different things (by the time I get those courses done, it should be time for Microsoft to change it all again.)
Another class is on how to incorporate social networking into the curriculum. Then there's a super-fun one on how to integrate the Discovery World Museum into the curriculum.
Finally, there's my 'geek' class. 'Don't expand your vocabulary, deepen it'
The course went live today, so here's the intro page:
Hello and welcome.
Our class begins on June 2, and I will try to make the BlackBoard site available by no later than June 1.
I hope you will enjoy our course this summer, and by mid-July you should have a stronger, deeper vocabulary and will be able to read and write with much great confidence and accuracy.
We are going to start with a very brief history of the English language. This history will provide you with context for the rest of the course.
After you read the brief history, we will begin working on etymology. Since so many of our words (and often the most difficult ones) come from Latin or Greek, we will focus mostly on the etymologies of words taken from Latin and Greek.
Awwwwwwwwwww yeeeeeeeeeeah!
I'm way too excited about taking classes...
Last summer, I took ten credits, two for certification, and the rest to move up to my next level. So I'm back at zero again for both. This summer, I'm taking five; I figure if I spread things out, and do 5-5-6, I can keep a pretty good three-year schedule.
One class is advanced Word, another is advanced Excel. Specifically, the 2007 versions were so different than anything before, I've been retaking all the MS Office stuff to pick up all the new and different things (by the time I get those courses done, it should be time for Microsoft to change it all again.)
Another class is on how to incorporate social networking into the curriculum. Then there's a super-fun one on how to integrate the Discovery World Museum into the curriculum.
Finally, there's my 'geek' class. 'Don't expand your vocabulary, deepen it'
The course went live today, so here's the intro page:
Hello and welcome.
Our class begins on June 2, and I will try to make the BlackBoard site available by no later than June 1.
I hope you will enjoy our course this summer, and by mid-July you should have a stronger, deeper vocabulary and will be able to read and write with much great confidence and accuracy.
We are going to start with a very brief history of the English language. This history will provide you with context for the rest of the course.
After you read the brief history, we will begin working on etymology. Since so many of our words (and often the most difficult ones) come from Latin or Greek, we will focus mostly on the etymologies of words taken from Latin and Greek.
Awwwwwwwwwww yeeeeeeeeeeah!
I'm way too excited about taking classes...
