LCI application submitted

[topaz]

Just sent off my completed evaluation exam for the LCI seminar the weekend after next.  It wasn't long -- 50 multiple choice, 25 true/false, and 10 short answer -- but cripes, some of them were hard.  At least one question ("what is the most reliable guide for monitoring your level of power output when bicycling on level ground in still air?") appeared to have no prior art anywhere in our class literature -- or, as far as I can tell, on Da Intarwebz.  Moreover, I am convinced that the question about how to change a flat tire has no correct answer, and was planted strictly to guarantee that no one can achieve a perfect score on this test.

Anyway.  Now I have to start practicing parking-lot drills.  They're also going to assign me something to present in class, in order to evaluate my teaching ability.

Public presentation.  Now that's something that reaches down and invokes cold, clammy fear in my lizard brain.  But hey, that's what this is all about, right?  Right?

Comments

[gothtique.livejournal.com]

Don't present to the "whole class"... talk to them one at a time... from the front of the room.
Seriously, run a pattern in the back of your head, making a point to look at every person in the room as you speak. Between remembering what the hell you are talking about and trying to run the subroutine, your little lizard brain will be too busy to freak out.
It works for me anyway.
Good luck!

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

yup, something like that. I do try to remember those things and usually succeed. And when I'm talking reasonably well in my element I generally loosen up before long. But it doesn't quite keep me busy enough to keep from doing the freak-out thing :-)

Thanks for the good wishes!