I think this week’s lecture was pretty good. We covered a lot of useful things and it was nice to get to talk about online distributed learning versus in-person learning. It was kind of surprising to hear how well online lecturing worked for some of the people in the class. I found that I had really opposite experiences in a lot of aspects and really struggle with online classes. I was luckily and only really needed to do a semester (and a half) of school online before finishing my degree. I felt like I would have needed to take time off from school and just worked or something instead if I had to take more online semesters. They caused me a lot of stress and disruption compared to normal classes and I didn’t want to suffer academically because of a different learning mode.

I thought that “Mad Tea” Liberating Structure was fun. Learning about Liberating Structures was really great, I think a lot of them will be really useful resources. There’s a lot of nice flexibility in them as well, finding things that could work well for science education and then fine tuning them seems like a really great tool to engage students with pretty abstract concepts.

I’m definitely behind on my free inquiry project. I’ve been doing more figure drawing practice so I might just post that and discuss it a bit. School has been so busy recently that I unfortunately haven’t really had much free time in any form. I think discussing the practice I’ve been doing could help, I just feel a bit bad about it not being something that’s all that new.