I’ve always enjoyed teaching. There is something in it that makes me feel good. I don’t know what is that though. Maybe I feel the satisfaction from the process. Maybe it is easier to see the results. Maybe it’s all the communications envolved. Or maybe I like well defined goals.
Anyway, it seems that I will be enjoying whatever is that I am enjoying so much about it again. This time though it is teaching on steroids. Instead of single students, I will have a whole group of about 10 people. I will give them a 12-hour course (3 hours a week for one month) on effective data mining. It’s just a fancy title for a bunch of common knowledge though.
The course will include a brief overview of search engines, detailed coverage of Google, and a bunch of new tools and services such as RSS, Atom, blogosphere, BlogLines, del.icio.us, Technorati, Flickr, and stuff like that. I don’t yet have course notes or anything for that matter except for course outline, but I hope I will develop all I need during the next week and a half. The course will start from the beginning of October and I think I have plenty of time to do everything properly.
In the meantime, if you have any links that you might think I will find useful, let me know via comments.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Vips U // Sep 22, 2005 at 12:41 am
Can you reveal more about how you found out about the opportunity to teach? Are these ‘regular’ people who are taking the course?
Also, check out researchbuzz.org . I used to be subbed to her list but unsubbed when I moved and haven’t made it back yet. There were truly some interesting resources that I heard about from that.
2 Zinaida // Sep 22, 2005 at 9:38 pm
Teaching is in your blood like in mine.
3 Leonid Mamchenkov // Sep 22, 2005 at 11:22 pm
Vips U,
The friend of mine is working in the school. I talked to him and asked if the school would be interested. He discussed it with the school management and they though it would be interesting. I guess, even if I didn’thave a friend working there, I would end up asking the school myself.
The group that I am about to teach is all ‘regular’ people. Most of these are high school students aged 17-19. There are a couple of adults also - a teacher and school’s dean. ;)
Btw, thanks for the link, I’ll check it out.
4 Leonid Mamchenkov // Sep 22, 2005 at 11:22 pm
Zinaida,
I wonder how it got there in the first place… :)
5 Zinaida // Sep 24, 2005 at 9:54 am
I am not sure… May be because of my grand-grandfather he “tought” people in the church…?
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