bibliomane hope over fear

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today 1 year ago

I’m teaching a one hour Ovid MEDLINE class. Wish me luck.

The first time I taught this, my boss told me I left stuff out and didn’t go into enough detail. The second time I taught it, he told me I went into too much detail and that I should try to be funny. I haven’t figured out yet how to make MEDLINE searching entertaining, much less funny. Apparently, I would make a poor stand-up comedian, since I seem to have trouble being funny under pressure.

I’ll stop feeling so nervous eventually, right? I hope so, if I just keep getting up and talking to groups of people.

Feb 15, 2007, 06:11AM PST | 1 cheer


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bibliomane hope over fear

well, it went okay

I had a different librarian observe my MEDLINE class today. She said that I didn’t seem nervous, that I seemed natural speaking to people. So, that is good, since I was actually nervous, although not as nervous as I was the last couple of times. And, we were able to talk about what how I did and discuss some ways to improve the next time. Eventually, perhaps I’ll stop feeling so darn nervous!

Feb 15, 2007, 06:37PM PST | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

{Turandot} feels naughty, disgraceful and lucky

Dear bibliomane

(by the way, why do you call yourself “bibliomane”, it has a meaning in italian, as far as I know, but in english what were you aiming at?)
I just wanted you to know that I share your fears, and found some good help while reading R. Boice’s book “Advice for new faculty members”, which deals with teaching in the first section (pp. 11-101) and in particularly pp. 47-74.
Let me know how you are doing!
I’m starting my first course at university in a month and am indeed very nervous myself…

Mar 06, 2007, 12:48AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

bibliomane hope over fear

thanks for the support

I shall seek out that book, thank you!

What will you be teaching??

re bibliomane: what does it mean in Italian? I just checked it really quickly in babelfish and they translated it as “bibliomaniac”, which is pretty much what I’m going for, but I know babelfish isn’t always accurate. The meaning I intend is something along the lines of: avid, perhaps compulsive, collector of books.

Mar 06, 2007, 07:20AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

{Turandot} feels naughty, disgraceful and lucky

:-)

I’ll be teaching philosophy, and am actually quite excited, beyond being a little worried.
Yes, bibliomane means what you wrote.

Mar 06, 2007, 08:05AM PST | Respond to this


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