Today's hilarity [Teaching in the Time of the Coronavirus, Phase II]

[rebeccmeister]

So I don't know whether I actually mentioned this or not, but when I've been saying "We" for the whole Science in the Kitchen series, it's because I am developing everything for the course in collaboration with a colleague. Each of us is teaching our own individual section, but we figured we'd do a better job with the whole shebang if we divided and conquered.

And so today we got to talking about our course introduction videos, and realized that we would probably need to explain why some other professor would be appearing in half of the instructional videos throughout the course!

So we quickly drew up a script, and put together a little back-and-forth introductory video.

It was WAY less awkward and way more fun than the individual introductory video I made for my other course.

There is still a lot more work to do to get ready.

Comments

[thisnewday]

I think it's great that you and your colleague are doing this collaboratively. My first experience with collaborative teaching/learning was about 15 years ago in a graduate writing class called "Seminar in the Composing Process."

One of the sourcebooks was Nancie Atwell's "In the Middle," in which she discusses collaborative reading and book discussion for middle schoolers. Although her book was already in its second edition, it was still a new concept to some of us and I was impressed with its positive potential and with the results she'd gotten in the classroom.

My best wishes to you and your colleague in this effort and for the coming school year...