Seminar
I’ve been in a seminar all day on the topic of learning portfolios. It’s geared toward faculty, which means I don’t have tons to contribute, but it’s been pretty interesting anyway. We had to do this exercise:
Teaching : Learning  is as
________ : ________
I said as filling a gas tank is to parallel parking. You give somebody the basic resources, then he/she has to use his/her skills to synthesize it into something useful. Those exercises are kind of silly, but it’s better than sitting at my desk.
The seminar is all day tomorrow, too. I need to update my voice mail, because I think I have a bunch of messages waiting for me. Giving people an off-putting greeting helps with that a lot.
Also: Denny’s back! Yay! I fetched him at the airport last night. He got in early, but luckily I arrived early too, so it was well-timed. I gave him his romantic Snickers but he wasn’t hungry. I think he may have brought it to work today.
