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[Love_Is_Blonde]

It’s not a competition is it?!? I know a wide and varied bit of rpg history and lore but I’m sure others know plenty I don’t. That’s what makes seminar classes fun though!

I have no horse in this race. I don’t know how to play either. I’ll stick with Catan.

 

[baise]

Teacher For a Day​

Summer is over and school is just about to begin. How did summer slip by so quickly?? Anyway, I’m thinking about this school year and setting goals for myself. “THIS year is going to be different. THIS is the year that I’m going to ___. I’m going to be more organized. This is one part of the job that is really beneficial. There is a fresh start in a way each year. It isn’t the same slog for years on end. You get to start anew and try to do things even better than before.
Ok. All that aside.
Let’s say that YOU had to teach a class. Or you GOT to. You get this wonderful opportunity to teach a class on anything you want to. It can be academic, or a skill or a hobby or a life skill or ANYTHING.

If it is something that is a mature theme, it would be for adult audiences 18+ .
Think Literature, skiing, woodshop, crochet, dog agility, cooking, auto mechanics, ANYTHING.

1. Teacher credentials: What background or experience do you have in this area?​
2. What is the title of your course?​
3. What materials if any will they need for this class?​
4. What would your students be able to do at the end of your class?​
5. How will you collect grades?​
6. What is the recommended next course of study? ​

Have fun and be creative

1) I was a university lecturer in French language and literature, now retired. I am no good at anything else.

2) Existentialism and the Problem of the ‘Other’ in Sarte’s play Huis Clos (No Exit).

3) A copy of the play and some paper and a pen to take notes in case I say anything interesting.

4) Nothing Practical, but they would learn a bit about one of the most influential philosophies of the 20th century and how Sartre brilliantly illustrates abstract ideas in a concrete play.

5) I would get them to write an essay on the play.

6) it would depend on their interests. Perhaps something on the Theatre of the Absurd, another important aspect of French literature in the last century.

It sounds heavy but it can be fun discussing the play

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Lights, Camera…ugh!​

You just heard that your beloved book is being turned into a movie. How do you feel about that? My usual reaction is something between outrage and mortal terror. Oh please ohpleaseohpleaseohplease don’t let them fuck it up. But there have been only a few instances that I can recall in which I felt the movie held a candle to the book.
Cartoonist Tom Gauld captured a few ways that literary works are “enhanced” when turned into a movie. (You can find more of his work in his book, You’re Just Jealous of My Jetpack. )
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My question to you is, what movie do you feel really mangled the book upon which it was based, AND (this is a two-parter), were there any movies that you felt were well done or did a service to the original work? TV shows count, too.

Apologies for being late once again...

One film adaptation that got it completely wrong: Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand. Released more than 20 years ago, it bothers me to this day how the filmmakers missed the mark. The film should have been a classic. This is my favorite "sports" book of all time, and even if you don't like sports, this is an amazing book about a sports underdog and the amazing bond between man and animals. Seabiscuit's story resonated so deeply with Americans during the Great Depression that is was said in 1938, the horse received more media attention than President Roosevelt.
What makes the book so incredibly heartwarming and special is missing in the adaptation.

One that got it right: The Remains of the Day by Kasuo Ishiguro. This is a quiet, yet powerful book that was expertly adapted and perfectly cast with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. A story about regret, suppressed emotions and a longing for connection-- the two story lines in the book / film perfectly mirror one another. Superb acting and direction. This is one of my favorite films from the 90s.

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Hey there! Nice to see you!

One film adaptation that got it completely wrong: Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand. Released more than 20 years ago, it bothers me to this day how the filmmakers missed the mark. The film should have been a classic. This is my favorite "sports" book of all time, and even if you don't like sports, this is an amazing book about a sports underdog and the amazing bond between man and animals. Seabiscuit's story resonated so deeply with Americans during the Great Depression that is was said in 1938, the horse received more media attention than President Roosevelt.

I hadn’t thought about this film in ages!

One that got it right: The Remains of the Day by Kasuo Ishiguro. This is a quiet, yet powerful book that was expertly adapted and perfectly cast with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. A story about regret, suppressed emotions and a longing for connection-- the two story lines perfectly mirror one another. Superb acting and direction. This is one of my favorite films from the 90s.

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I never saw this one. I’m going to have to rectify this immediately especially because I love both of these actors so much! Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[hotwords229_A]

The Remains of the Day

I never saw this one. I’m going to have to rectify this immediately especially because I love both of these actors so much! Thanks for the recommendation.

I never read the book, but the movie is excellent. Painfully beautiful.

 

[Endless_Night]

Teacher For a Day​

1. Teacher credentials: What background or experience do you have in this area?​
2. What is the title of your course?​
3. What materials if any will they need for this class?​
4. What would your students be able to do at the end of your class?​

1. I've taught genetics and environmental science to undergraduates. (Part of a Phd course.)
2. How to Make Yourself Crazy in Ten Easy Steps.
3. Their own mind.
4. An ability to introvert and overthink any situation.

On a more serious notte, I don't feel expert enough on any subject to teach.

I could possibly tutor science. Maybe.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

1. I've taught genetics and environmental science to undergraduates. (Part of a Phd course.)
2. How to Make Yourself Crazy in Ten Easy Steps.
3. Their own mind.
4. An ability to introvert and overthink any situation.

On a more serious notte, I don't feel expert enough on any subject to teach.

I could possibly tutor science. Maybe.

FWIW my one year teaching math taught me that subject matter expertise is a very different skill set than education. And my life as a student has taught me that some of my best teachers weren’t subject matter experts themselves . Juts knew enough to help guide the discussion.

 

[Mei5ter]

Teacher For a Day​

Summer is over and school is just about to begin. How did summer slip by so quickly?? Anyway, I’m thinking about this school year and setting goals for myself. “THIS year is going to be different. THIS is the year that I’m going to ___. I’m going to be more organized. This is one part of the job that is really beneficial. There is a fresh start in a way each year. It isn’t the same slog for years on end. You get to start anew and try to do things even better than before.
Ok. All that aside.
Let’s say that YOU had to teach a class. Or you GOT to. You get this wonderful opportunity to teach a class on anything you want to. It can be academic, or a skill or a hobby or a life skill or ANYTHING.

If it is something that is a mature theme, it would be for adult audiences 18+ .
Think Literature, skiing, woodshop, crochet, dog agility, cooking, auto mechanics, ANYTHING.

1. Teacher credentials: What background or experience do you have in this area?​
2. What is the title of your course?​
3. What materials if any will they need for this class?​
4. What would your students be able to do at the end of your class?​
5. How will you collect grades?​
6. What is the recommended next course of study? ​

Have fun and be creative

I'm going to have to answer this slightly obliquely. I'd be sharing a little more than I'm comfortable with if I'm specific about what I'd teach, and why I might be qualified to do so.

I've done a bit of this, always with adults. Some has been in a more formal academic setting, other things have been creative/musical. I'm much more comfortable saying that I have virtually no formal qualifications to do either of these things, which is true if slightly disingenuous.

What has interested me is how the people I've taught/trained/lectured have behaved differently in different settings.

For more formal academic things, it's felt very adult-to-adult. It clearly doesn't feel anything like school to them - much more like a workplace environment - and I didn't feel as if I was in charge and knew stuff while they weren't and didn't.

For amateur music...completely different. If you're directing a bunch of amateur musicians, people revert to a grown up version of school. You get the grown up versions of the kids you remember - the one who's always late, the one who never has their music, the hyper-keen boy asking pretentious questions, the three girls who are always giggling but annoyingly know exactly where you are, the vague boy who's looking the wrong way, the kid who drops their pencil...all of them. And somehow that environment makes all those adults revert.

And yes, speaking for myself as a straight man, that does include grown up versions of the girls who have one too many uniform buttons undone, and the girls who want attention, and definitely the girls who love being told off for being naughty. It sounds such a cliché. Maybe it is? But it happens, and I could make a guess at why it happens in that setting rather than the more academic one.

Lit choir camp anyone?

We could be the OK Chorale?

 

[Endless_Night]

FWIW my one year teaching math taught me that subject matter expertise is a very different skill set than education. And my life as a student has taught me that some of my best teachers weren’t subject matter experts themselves . Juts knew enough to help guide the discussion.

One hundred percent agreed.

It's rather more in the nature of a personal quirk. I feel like I need to know a subject thoroughly, inside and out. For those people who ask questions outside the class proscribed subjection. Like myself.

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

FWIW my one year teaching math taught me that subject matter expertise is a very different skill set than education. And my life as a student has taught me that some of my best teachers weren’t subject matter experts themselves . Juts knew enough to help guide the discussion.

And you’ve got to be ready for the inevitability that at some point in your career, you’re going to have students in your classes who are smarter than you are. I hate to admit it, but it’s true. There’s nothing worse than a teacher who does anything he or she can to look like he or she is NEVER wrong or has never made a mistake in life. Talk about a stunted opportunity.

No, in the instances where the teacher clearly isn’t the expert, you all put on your “learning hats” together and explore! Not only do you learn the subject matter, but you learn that no matter how old you get, you never stop learning.

 

[Mrtenant]

Teacher For a Day​

Summer is over and school is just about to begin. How did summer slip by so quickly?? Anyway, I’m thinking about this school year and setting goals for myself. “THIS year is going to be different. THIS is the year that I’m going to ___. I’m going to be more organized. This is one part of the job that is really beneficial. There is a fresh start in a way each year. It isn’t the same slog for years on end. You get to start anew and try to do things even better than before.
Ok. All that aside.
Let’s say that YOU had to teach a class. Or you GOT to. You get this wonderful opportunity to teach a class on anything you want to. It can be academic, or a skill or a hobby or a life skill or ANYTHING.

If it is something that is a mature theme, it would be for adult audiences 18+ .
Think Literature, skiing, woodshop, crochet, dog agility, cooking, auto mechanics, ANYTHING.

1. Teacher credentials: What background or experience do you have in this area?​

None in the traditional sense. I have only volunteered as a coach in football, volleyball, and basketball. I've done some JA. Volunteered for Field Day and Fall Festival school events. - feels like a job interview here Ran the chess club and robotics club

1. What is the title of your course?​

American Civics While White Water Rafting

1. What materials if any will they need for this class?​

Life vest, helmet, permission slip

1. What would your students be able to do at the end of your class?​

How to fund raise, run for political office, know their constitution, separation of church and state, paddle left, paddle right,

1. How will you collect grades?​

Whoever survives the day

1. What is the recommended next course of study? ​

Running a Nonprofit While Cliff Climbing

Have fun and be creative

Of course