When I was making Powerpoint presentations for the summer class, I had to put them together in a hurry. For illustrations, I pulled from the Internet, but I did not like many of the ones that I had to use. Since I have a few weeks before the next class… Read more“How I’m Spending My Summer Vacation”
Category: anthropology
How I Spent My Summer Session
My summer physical anthropology course has ended, so my summer vacation has officially started. I get a few weeks of relatively less work to think about how prior classes turned out and start improving on the next semester’s version. Here are a few quick notes and lessons based on my… Read more“How I Spent My Summer Session”
Summer Nights
I have passed the halfway point of my physical anthropology class, so it is a good time to check in with an update of my experiences! First, hi class! I inadvertently blasted my site’s address on the projector screen when I was demoing Anthropomotron for my forensic anthropology lecture. This… Read more“Summer Nights”
Cultural Anthropology Final Exam: ‘Dee-Now-Ment’
And so the course comes to an end. Getting ready for the final, I greatly underestimated the time I needed to make the final exam. The previous exams went relatively smoothly: the first exam had fewer than fifteen questions and the second was mostly done in an hour and a half… Read more“Cultural Anthropology Final Exam: ‘Dee-Now-Ment’”
Cultural Anthropology Week 15: The Final Countdown
The last lecture wraps the course material back around from globalization and applied anthropology back to the fundamentals of anthropological research. Like a good conclusion, the last lecture should not have any startling new materials, so I created it out of past slides. I took the most eye-catching and discussion-generating… Read more“Cultural Anthropology Week 15: The Final Countdown”
NPR: Will Your Job Be Done By a Machine?
Seems like I’m safe, even though they automated getting a picture of me.
Cultural Anthropology Week 14: Field Trip!
Ever since a student joked that we should go to the San Diego Museum of Man as a class, Week 14 was going to be special. In addition to the trip, the day also marks the end of the poster project that was started after spring break. The plan was… Read more“Cultural Anthropology Week 14: Field Trip!”
Cultural Anthropology Week 12: Getting Very Near the End
How to cover globalization in two and a half hours? I broke up the topic into three parts. The first is the lead up to world systems theory, delving again into how anthropology is conducted to show how the field has switched from viewing cultures as contained systems to seeing… Read more“Cultural Anthropology Week 12: Getting Very Near the End”
Cultural Anthropology Week 11: Make It On the Run
The second exam brings an opportunity to work on my exam-making skills. The first exam had some things I wanted to change. I might have gotten too into making the test go from easy to hard, with easy being really easy (“What is anthropology?”) and the hardest was very hard… Read more“Cultural Anthropology Week 11: Make It On the Run”
Cultural Anthropology Week 10: Preparing for the Future
Week 10 (!?) is a shakeup of the usual class schedule. For the first time, even including the first class, there was no new lecture material. Instead, the first hour was a review for the second exam, and the rest of the time was poster work time. When I was… Read more“Cultural Anthropology Week 10: Preparing for the Future”