Showing posts with label MN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MN. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Online Curriculum Development: BDS, 7-2-13

I have a development meeting tomorrow (fancy way of saying going over to my friend M's house, chatting about the online course, and laughing for a while), so I decided to work on my online course development for my Brief Daily Session today. 

For each of our units, we have overview documents that explain what our activities, goals, and expectations are for that unit of work. We already have most of the content organized and shared, but there are many of these overview documents left to create. 

These are interesting yet difficult to write up. There's a lot of information we need to convey to students, and how to do that in a purely textual environment is a completely different experience for me. I found myself constantly deciding what would be important for students to know, and what we could expect them to learn/figure out for themselves. It's fun to keep my pedagogy hat on, but it also takes time because there's so much to think about. 

Luckily these aren't long, and I got through about 5 overview statements in the 60 minute BDS I did tonight. 

I think the fact that I have a meeting tomorrow (albeit with my friend) has contributed a little bit of stress to the process. We have very different methods for getting things done, as well as a very different methods for interpersonal communication. I'm sure it will be fine, but when my mind trailed off of the task, it was usually because I was thinking about the meeting. 

I also have the MN Twins game playing on the radio in my ear buds. There's probably something there as to why I'm distracted, but oh well. There're some sacrifices I'm not willing to make (even though they're bums).

 




Monday, July 1, 2013

Introductions are in order.....

Hello to those of you who have found your way to this blog.

My name is Maxwell Philbrook and I'd like to welcome you to my blog. I'm a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition in the English Department here at Mizzou. I study the movement of texts in an increasingly global world, and I am especially interested in how arguments about food circulate transnationally. I received a MA from the University of Minnesota Duluth and I'm glad to be here.

I'm originally from Minneapolis area Minnesota, home of the Minnesota Twins, Atmosphere, and mosquitoes so big you need a tennis racket to smash them. Minnesota is a wonderful place to live, but Columbia is a close second.

My plan for this space is to chronicle my writing during a four-week summer session course as I begin to incorporate mindful practices into my writing process. I am currently in the process of working on my comprehensive examinations. In the English Department, we have a comps process where we write an essay over our comps year, instead of locking ourselves in a room examination-style. I'll be doing some work for that on this blog, but I'll also be reflecting on my mindfulness practices that I incorporate into my comps process.

For now, you can get to know me better around the web:
https://www.facebook.com/maxwell.philbrook
https://twitter.com/philby311
http://english.missouri.edu/gradstudents/514-maxwell-philbrook.html

You'll definitely see me commenting on your posts, so please feel free to do the same. It'd be great to hear from you!