Today was our annual tech fair at work. For me that means helping to haul a lot of equipment over, set things up, man a booth, talk to a lot of people and help out in whatever way I can. Sometimes I get frustrated here and there, but overall it’s a great experience. This year I was manning the Turning Point booth and had a couple professors with me showing examples of what they do in class.
If you don’t know, Turning Point is a classroom response system that works as a plugin to PowerPoint. You essentially install it, get an extra toolbar in PP, put some interactive content in your slides, hand out the clickers to your students/audience and then give your presentation. You can keep track of who is associated with each clicker or you can keep it totally anonymous. It can be pretty cool and useful if you do it right.
I need to do some more work on Harry Potter. I’ve never really read a book in spanish before, plus, I haven’t done much with the language in a while so it’s been a challenge. I’m thinking of either starting up another blog or just making it a part of this one; I want to chronicle my journey through the process. I’d like to summarize each page and also list any new phrases and words I picked up along the way. I think it’ll help me retain more. I think I spent about 30 min on the first page. That may sound like a long time but I looked up some words and also got stuck on a couple phrases. However, after reading through the whole page 4 times, I pretty much had it memorized.
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