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Tried
- Experimented with a new way to make feedback videos responding to student work. Instead of actively pausing/unpausing the recording, I filmed myself reading (and responding) to the work, and then used Recut to cut out all the silences. Now it’s a more accurate recording of my initial response upon reading. It wasn’t as smooth as I’d hoped, but I think I’ll try it again. I just have to be a little more performative (and consistently loud) when voicing reactions. And I could also combine both features, for example to pause and collect my thoughts for final remarks/evaluation at the end.
Made
- I printed the text of Ingrid Robeyn’s 2019 Van Hasselt lecture as a little booklet to gift to my faculty’s dean. Reminded me how fun it is to make simple little booklets/zines. I did a series of those a while ago. Perhaps I should do more of that again. Easy way to be creative.
Notes / Other stuff
- Today was my last meeting as a teacher in the first year ME design project courses (because I’ll start to work part-time at Architecture starting February 1st). I wonder whether I’ll miss it. Probably. But it also felt like a good moment to step away.
Published
- Delta column ‘Free of Expression’
- YouTube video ‘Why you SHOULD be critical when brainstorming’. Made this one in a single day. Morning spent setting up and recording, edited the whole thing in the afternoon. Mostly an excuse to try my new teleprompter. Next time I think I should spend more time polishing the script, and to be more conscious of the tempo/rhythm of the video. It goes from hasty to slow and back again a few times now.
Learned
- Discovered BlackMagic’s Resolve lessons and followed ‘Introduction to Editing’. So many little things I would never have figured out on my own.
Notes / Other stuff
- Submitted Comenius grant application this week. Reasonably happy with the project proposal, in the end. We’ll see.
- Thursday was my very last afternoon coaching first year Mechanical Engineering students! I wonder whether I’ll miss it. And looking back I’m struck by how difficult students seem to be finding things this year. In previous years, we got much more in-depth with modelling (even Python scripts) than this or last year. Way more tinkering and way less engineering that I remember from earlier years. Then again, the end-results were always dodgy so perhaps I’m misremembering… In any case, I find myself thinking I would change so much if I were the boss of these courses (do less better). Which means it’s good I won’t be doing it anymore, as I’m not in that position.
- So yeah, I think I might try to do weeknotes weekly-ish for a while and see what they bring, inspired by Russel Davies‘ book ‘DO Interesting’ that I read but never did anything with before.