I'm getting somewhere!

[gremdark]

I finally figured out what I want to do with my sample lesson, after sifting through approximately eight billion options. I've written up a couple-paragraph outline, so I just need to convert that into a set of slides and some bullet-point speaking cues, and I'll be good to go. 

And I need to time the damn thing. Evidently the five minutes is a firm cutoff point, so I'll keep a stopwatch running on my phone during the lesson itself for good measure. This is when it's good to have a gaggle of roommates. I'll make them listen to my draft presentation, and maybe that way we'll all learn a thing or two about ekphrastic poetry. 

The data interpretation element is coming along too, albeit more slowly. I have a collection of academic sources and the skeleton of a proposal, but those, too, need to be prettied up for executive consumption. I'm thinking a second, shorter set of slides, paired with an executive handout that opens with a short summary of my proposal. Then I'll do a little annotated bibliography for the sources I'm consulting outside the ones they provided.

When I type it up here, it feels so achievable. Maybe I'll survive the week after all.

Comments

[pattrose]

Good luck. You can do it.