How to enable understanding? Wish I knew.
Well, I did reasonably well this morning and got up more or less when I wanted to. Well, my initial goal anyway. I'm going to work on getting up even earlier, but I'm working towards it. Shelved some more books. I now have two shelves done and another one empty and ready for new books to come in. I'm glad at how this seems to be progressing. I think it will manage pretty well. Or rather that I will manage it pretty well. This is one that may not even last till December as a habit, as chances are I'll have finished within a month.
The weather is gradually getting warmer outside, but the insides are still a bit cool. My putative tomato plant is looking fairly healthy. I will see if I can remember to give it some water tomorrow. I think the sage, alas, I have let grow thirsty too long. Either that or I drowned it at some point. I'm not having a lot of luck with sage. I think checking on the garden may have to be a habit that I try also.
Well, when I say 'garden' I mean the pot plants on the balcony. But hey, they're my pot plants and with summer coming up it may be time to plant some more basil and maybe some lettuce for the salad months.
Work went reasonably well. I had a workshop to start off with, and that happened, though there were some points where the students weren't willing or possibly able to engage. I think it needs more interactive stuff, and maybe a little more pointing out what (to me) is the obvious. But that is not obvious to them.
I then snaffled a little leftover morning tea for lunch (including fruit! Behold me virtuous) and settled in to do some marking. It's always the tricky thing, feedback, give too much and it takes ages. Too little and they don't learn from it and make the same mistakes over and over again. Sometimes it's something that I think is obvious, or that they've just not really understood what they were doing. Or remembered something that they did in their first year. Or possibly second year since they theoretically do electromagnetism there and surely there would be some reference to E=V/d in there. Or whatever they've managed to muck up (interestingly it's often the squaring or cubing values that gets people. When the value you are squaring etc. is something like a mm, or µm or something like that. Or even a cm, then you have to remember that it's not the same as converting without squaring. Oh well.
I've got one more to do, but they had to be run through the turnitin software first, and before I could do that I had to run it through OCR since they didn't seem to realise that scanned images are not acceptable to Turnitin.
Oh well. I had the software to OCR it so ran the pages that were typed at least through there, the results should be in by tomorrow. This is the program that we use to make sure they haven't copied their results from elsewhere. it shouldn't be, but just in case, we run the check.
OK, getting a little sleepy now, but I'm going to get this done and go to bed and try to get up pretty early. For I have my lab in the morning and it will need me up and at attention. We're playing with magnets, how do they work, except of course we've known how they work for some time now.
Using my new travel pillow to support my head as I do this for a bit. I could I suppose go do this at the table but that requires me to move and I'm really not up for that right now.
Evening was spent hanging out at
fred_mouse's place. Though the usual singing group didn't assemble for various reasons. Though some singing happened, and some chatting, and a bit of crafting, but overall just a nice quiet evening. Should have one tomorrow too. Though I hope to get some things on the way home as I'm out of this or that. Or I could try turning the pumpkin into a risotto. I wonder how pumpkin and mushroom risotto would work. Possibly not a full one though. And I'd like to turn my hand maybe to a quiche for Sunday.
Family member called with good news this afternoon which was really nice to hear. I hope all continues well there.
This is the day without exercise (apart of course from all the walking around campus that happens when you park at the back and then do lots of stairs to get to the places you are doing workshops etc).
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The weather is gradually getting warmer outside, but the insides are still a bit cool. My putative tomato plant is looking fairly healthy. I will see if I can remember to give it some water tomorrow. I think the sage, alas, I have let grow thirsty too long. Either that or I drowned it at some point. I'm not having a lot of luck with sage. I think checking on the garden may have to be a habit that I try also.
Well, when I say 'garden' I mean the pot plants on the balcony. But hey, they're my pot plants and with summer coming up it may be time to plant some more basil and maybe some lettuce for the salad months.
Work went reasonably well. I had a workshop to start off with, and that happened, though there were some points where the students weren't willing or possibly able to engage. I think it needs more interactive stuff, and maybe a little more pointing out what (to me) is the obvious. But that is not obvious to them.
I then snaffled a little leftover morning tea for lunch (including fruit! Behold me virtuous) and settled in to do some marking. It's always the tricky thing, feedback, give too much and it takes ages. Too little and they don't learn from it and make the same mistakes over and over again. Sometimes it's something that I think is obvious, or that they've just not really understood what they were doing. Or remembered something that they did in their first year. Or possibly second year since they theoretically do electromagnetism there and surely there would be some reference to E=V/d in there. Or whatever they've managed to muck up (interestingly it's often the squaring or cubing values that gets people. When the value you are squaring etc. is something like a mm, or µm or something like that. Or even a cm, then you have to remember that it's not the same as converting without squaring. Oh well.
I've got one more to do, but they had to be run through the turnitin software first, and before I could do that I had to run it through OCR since they didn't seem to realise that scanned images are not acceptable to Turnitin.
Oh well. I had the software to OCR it so ran the pages that were typed at least through there, the results should be in by tomorrow. This is the program that we use to make sure they haven't copied their results from elsewhere. it shouldn't be, but just in case, we run the check.
OK, getting a little sleepy now, but I'm going to get this done and go to bed and try to get up pretty early. For I have my lab in the morning and it will need me up and at attention. We're playing with magnets, how do they work, except of course we've known how they work for some time now.
Using my new travel pillow to support my head as I do this for a bit. I could I suppose go do this at the table but that requires me to move and I'm really not up for that right now.
Evening was spent hanging out at
fred_mouse's place. Though the usual singing group didn't assemble for various reasons. Though some singing happened, and some chatting, and a bit of crafting, but overall just a nice quiet evening. Should have one tomorrow too. Though I hope to get some things on the way home as I'm out of this or that. Or I could try turning the pumpkin into a risotto. I wonder how pumpkin and mushroom risotto would work. Possibly not a full one though. And I'd like to turn my hand maybe to a quiche for Sunday.
Family member called with good news this afternoon which was really nice to hear. I hope all continues well there.
This is the day without exercise (apart of course from all the walking around campus that happens when you park at the back and then do lots of stairs to get to the places you are doing workshops etc).
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