been a while since I got a report card...

[lagilman]

The "Blending Genres" workshop critique notes from last weekend's conference just hit my in-box -- I got an overall score of 4.67 out of 5 (yay me) and a lot of satisfaction from the students, as well as the suggestion that maybe I have a little less caffeine next time. Heh. Yeah, I'd had to get up at oh god early and drive three hours to get there in time, so I was a little wired. Also, not knowing how many people I'd have (as in "zero, or twenty-five?") in the class until several minutes into the session was... distracting.

The only downmark (a 4/5) was in not having handouts -- I'd chosen to work off the whiteboard, since pre-conference information was, hrm, sketchy at best, and I had reason to doubt any material I sent would be printed out properly, and I didn't have time or energy to make an unknown number of copies on my own dime. Next year the conference runners should have a better idea of what they've gotten themselves into, and will be able to juggle/delegate better.

Nice to know I still have my teaching skiz, though. I'd like to get back to doing more of that. *ponders*

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[filamena.livejournal.com]

See now, I was just thinking about the Con my husband and I will be speaking at in October and how brilliant I am because 'I can just use a whiteboard and I don't have to worry about all that handout nonsense."

Of course, that would be on my dime, so yeah, I think I'll just have to hope the audience forgives us being a little cheap.

[lagilman]

Yeah, the trick is to work within what's available -- originally the conference said there would be a number of display options available, then it went down to "well, a whiteboard and if yous end us your files we can run them off." At that point I figured I'd rather rely on what I could do myself, and not have to worry about it.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I got an overall score of 4.67 out of 5

Whoo Hoo!