Class
I'm feeling much better about my class for university. After the class schedule came out, the first two people who told me they were enrolled in my class (both of whom are awesome) made me a bit nervous because I was then afraid of teaching a beginner/intermediate class on a topic that is relatively new to me and having it be full of costuming gurus. While some of the others in the class are experienced costumers, most are intermediate level or are people I've never met. There's at least one Viking guru on the list, but she's a sweetheart, so I'm not worried about her being in the class.
I'm almost certainly fretting over nothing. I have most of my notes (what I'll say) mostly done, and I'm realizing that I probably won't have time in a one-hour class for the topics I still need to finish (will just skim over accessories, shoes, etc. - you could easily spend an hour on any of those alone). I'll finish my speaking notes later this week, then get a couple of people to look at them and start my handout, which I hope will include some photos and illustrations. I have no layout/graphics skills or software, and most of my pics are from books (might be able to find a few of them online...), so I'll probably be photocopying, literally cutting and pasting, then photocopying. Happily, we have a nice printer/scanner at work, so getting good scans won't be a pain. I wonder if I could get our IT people to put a screen shot program on my laptop in the next week or so. . .
Oh wow. I just learned how to do a screen shot without special software, and it turns out that I still have MS Publisher on my desktop. Maybe MS doesn't completely suck. Oh wow. That is really nifty. I just need to scan my pics into PDFs at work, then print screen and paste them into Publisher to crop. You can learn to do anything on the internet. . . Nifty.
I'm almost certainly fretting over nothing. I have most of my notes (what I'll say) mostly done, and I'm realizing that I probably won't have time in a one-hour class for the topics I still need to finish (will just skim over accessories, shoes, etc. - you could easily spend an hour on any of those alone). I'll finish my speaking notes later this week, then get a couple of people to look at them and start my handout, which I hope will include some photos and illustrations. I have no layout/graphics skills or software, and most of my pics are from books (might be able to find a few of them online...), so I'll probably be photocopying, literally cutting and pasting, then photocopying. Happily, we have a nice printer/scanner at work, so getting good scans won't be a pain. I wonder if I could get our IT people to put a screen shot program on my laptop in the next week or so. . .
Oh wow. I just learned how to do a screen shot without special software, and it turns out that I still have MS Publisher on my desktop. Maybe MS doesn't completely suck. Oh wow. That is really nifty. I just need to scan my pics into PDFs at work, then print screen and paste them into Publisher to crop. You can learn to do anything on the internet. . . Nifty.