2 posts tagged “video”

Good lord.  I always hated watching myself on video acting, too, but this is so much worse.  There are no scripts for this and I have not had months of rehearsal to prepare myself for this role.  I've had nine 50 minute sessions of rehearsal and that just doesn't cut it.

If I had been sitting there in that lesson, I would have gone to sleep for sure.  At least let my eyes drift closed for a while.  Granted, it was a revising essays session, so they definitely had plenty to do, it was just that watching the video was so boring!

What I noticed: Since I wasn't teaching for more than 7 minutes, it was hard to really tell what was wrong with it.  I did notice that Ann was right and that I repeat myself too often in giving directions.  But seriously, I do it in the hopes that one or two of the kids will understand it better the second time.  Doesn't work, usually, but I am the eternal optimist.

I noticed also that J is ridiculously defiant.  Toward the end of the class, zi (the neutral pronoun, because I really don't want everyone to know who I'm talking about) got up and got out of zu's desk to walk to another student's desk while my back was turned helping another student.  J has impeccable timing, too.  I turned my back just before zi got up and just before I turned back, zi sat down. 

Also what I noticed: My butt is even bigger than I thought it was.