{"id":129,"date":"2013-01-07T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/?p=129"},"modified":"2013-01-07T16:16:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:16:41","slug":"worlds-worst-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/2013\/01\/07\/worlds-worst-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s worst blogger?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a trend, I tend to post a few blogs early each semester and then stop.\u00a0 Not enough time. Nothing interesting to write about. etc etc etc.<\/p>\n

I’ve also said it before that I would do better to write a bit m ore often.\u00a0 Once again I’ll make this ‘resolution.’\u00a0 Maybe this time I’ll actually follow through.<\/p>\n

For now, I’ll just share what I am looking forward to this spring semester.\u00a0 I am looking forward to what looks like an excellent\u00a0 student make-up in my experimental psychology course.\u00a0 I’m changing up some of the ways that I relay material (less direct instruction, more ‘constructivist’ methods) and I am hopeful that this will make the course more engaging for the students. Strangely, each spring I look forward to teaching stat.\u00a0 It’s a class not loved by most students, but I do get to have a lot of student contact with the activities and worksheets.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to finalizing my sub-committee’s section of our HLC self-study.\u00a0 This is a task that though extremely important, I would love to have off my plate! I’m looking forward to ‘hopefully’ having a good solid draft of a new curriculum by the end of this semester.\u00a0 It’s been a bit of a slog this year, this semester we MUST make some decisions and get this concrete.\u00a0 I REALLY look forward to when the revision of the curriculum is over!\u00a0 Again, important work – don’t get me wrong – but it is mentally and emotionally taxing because of the political nature of curriculum reform.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more importantly though I look forward to working with my research students on their senior thesis projects.\u00a0 This is one of the great joys of my job and I love the point when the student gets to the end of the process, presents his or her research to others, and I can see that they can see the great accomplishment that they have made. I am hopeful that many will chose to present at a regional conference this year.<\/p>\n

So what am I not looking forward to…well the usual: grading homework, giving detailed feedback on writing, long hours,early mornings, meetings, college politics, problem-child students.\u00a0 In my mind this is actually what they pay me to do…..the rest I would do for free if I were independently wealthy.<\/p>\n

I guess one last thing to look forward to.\u00a0 For the new semester I get a new haircut and color.\u00a0 I also plan sometime to add a bit to my wardrobe with the gift cards I received for Christmas.\u00a0 Pretty things are always something to look forward to sharing!\"Sp13<\/a><\/p>\n

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I have a trend, I tend to post a few blogs early each semester and then stop.\u00a0 Not enough time. Nothing interesting to write about. etc etc etc. I’ve also said it before that I would do better to write a bit m ore often.\u00a0 Once again I’ll make this ‘resolution.’\u00a0 Maybe this time I’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6424,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-a-prof","category-professional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/christopherson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}