You know Andree,
I once gave a presentation live in a classroom. The instructor required the other students to provide feedback. Everyone said all kinds of nice and cuddly sayings. However, one fellow, whom I really respected wrote me a note that hurt me for years. The sad part, was that what he said was not really that bad. All he commented on was that I had apologized for myself at the beginning of the presentation.
Years later, I attended a Dale Carnegie Seminar and read a number of his books. This very principle was demonstrated before our eyes. This beautiful confident woman had done incredible mental gymnastics before our eyes. Her trainer was there supervising her whole first time as a trainer for us. What did she do? She apologized. It ruined our entire experience.
A third time this lesson came to me as well. I now no longer apologize from a place of weakness and shame. I simply say with the skin of a rhinoceros, 'sorry', or 'my apologies.' The difference, is that I have released the baggage and the 'extraneous editorialism.' Know that your classmates are learning too. As you go on in the course work you will have perhaps more of these experiences. Try not to take them personally.
We are all on our own paths in different places to where we want to be.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Student finds error on date to turn in
Hi Candida,
Glad you are back and that you had an enjoyable break. It always helps me best to receive an exact copy and paste of what you are reading that led to the misunderstanding. I did look at the Week 8 Checkpoint Worksheet in the Course Materials room to find that while having moved all my due dates from Fridays to Saturdays for the Checkpoints, that I had indeed overlooked this on this specific resource and I should have changed that due date to Saturday so that it would be consistent with the Syllabus and the Class Calendar. Was this the resource you were speaking about?
As far as knowing the difference between the Checkpoint and the Assignment, I am looking at the posts in the main that have been there since break began and I see that the Checkpoint called Energy Resource Challenges Checkpoint is due on Saturday, and that the Energy Resource Plan Assignment is due Sunday like all other assignments as is on the Course Calendar and on the Syllabus.
The Checkpoint is asking you to fill in the Worksheet and the Assignment is a choice between turning in a PowerPoint Presentation OR a paper, your choice. Does this clear things up?
Karen H. SCI 275
Glad you are back and that you had an enjoyable break. It always helps me best to receive an exact copy and paste of what you are reading that led to the misunderstanding. I did look at the Week 8 Checkpoint Worksheet in the Course Materials room to find that while having moved all my due dates from Fridays to Saturdays for the Checkpoints, that I had indeed overlooked this on this specific resource and I should have changed that due date to Saturday so that it would be consistent with the Syllabus and the Class Calendar. Was this the resource you were speaking about?
As far as knowing the difference between the Checkpoint and the Assignment, I am looking at the posts in the main that have been there since break began and I see that the Checkpoint called Energy Resource Challenges Checkpoint is due on Saturday, and that the Energy Resource Plan Assignment is due Sunday like all other assignments as is on the Course Calendar and on the Syllabus.
The Checkpoint is asking you to fill in the Worksheet and the Assignment is a choice between turning in a PowerPoint Presentation OR a paper, your choice. Does this clear things up?
Karen H. SCI 275
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