Mid-course Review

I have enrolled at Prescott College - where "education is a journey not a destination,"
well, that's what it says on my sweatshirt anyways. The deal is, I design the classes and so don't have to attend classes! I find mentors here in Boise ID who essentially become an adjunct at Prescott, and I have a prof. there in Prescott who makes sure I am actually working and not dragging their name through the local mud.

SO anyways, I am a bit behind with this first go at a self-guided education. but I have a time line ready to go for my first class of Learning Theories.

I have always closely held a dialectic between Hacker and Slacker; to defeat the latter, I... well, I putter, that is, I hack. I hack away at the problems until they wither away under my relentless puttering over them. todo lists, weird ass solutions only a man would devise usually involving duct-tape. Thus, I will blog my journals - hoping that no one but my professors and the odd random will find them...

AND so, here is my first todo list... It's a doozy

1. read three books:
a. This traditional teacher's education book centering around behaviorism I got from a co-worker at the school I work at.
b. Something about Logotherapy by V. Frankl
c. 50 Strategies for Experiential Learning, edited by Louis Thayer
2. read "Tools for Transformation" - create a Google Calendar
3. A communication blog for Gary et. al. (that's this!)
4. read 5 articles
a. something about Howard Gardner
b.
c.
d.
e.
5. Write an annotated bibliography of above articles
6. Write an assessment rubric
7. Conduct community interviews and a write a community issue outline
8. Mid course Review

So yeah, the last bit on the list is where I an supposed to be at... looks like to the average reader that the Slacker side of the dialectic is winning out... well, I DO have a buttload of excuses, but I 'd really rather not dwell on the problems...

onto solutions, the best thing about todo lists is checking em off

let me know if you know of any great articles.