Halloween Weekend

I spent time with the family on Saturday, keeping my 325 project in the back of my mind for much of the day. The 325 project is the "Business Methods" course culminating project that Robert and I need to complete by Tuesday. Using a course outline that Robert turned in a couple of months ago, we are to create two unit plans, four lesson plans, appropriate assessments and lists of student and teacher supporting materials. This would be much easier if we had an assignment sheet or some complete rubrics to go with it, but we don't, at least we can't find any at the online site for the class.

This is most irritating.

I talked over the project with Robert on Saturday evening and got to work on Sunday. I am putting together an "Introduction to PowerPoint" unit. Robert has already put together most of his parts of the project, an "Introduction to the Internet" unit. I already have a couple of lesson plans sketched out in my head regarding good PowerPoint projects, but I have to put all of these ideas down into a form that Dr. Yohon will like. What a pain in the ass!

There is a lot of duplication of effort involved here, trying to follow what we think she wants in her project and the outline of the unit plans, etc. It is driving me nuts. I spent most of Sunday afternoon on it and think that I am pretty close to having it all wrapped up. I will be SO glad when this course is over this week!

"Paul," you say, "why haven't you been working on this project over the last three or four weeks, like a good student, so that you don't have to rush at the last minute?"

"You," I say, "are nosy and need to keep your questions to yourself." "However, I feel justified in not working on this much yet, as I haven't had more than 10 minutes of free time to do anything but catch catnaps."