Setting up the lecture schedule
I wanted to get a good visual layout of how the course will proceed week-by-week. So I made a grid (using an adornment) for the weeks and when the class meetings are, including the dates that have no classes.
Part of this is to map out the topics versus time, and part of it is to coordinate things that need to go together. Of course, it will be helpful to use the visual display to indicate what parts are fully prepared and which still need work (which, right now, is all of them!)
Each week will have a homework assignment related to material in both lectures, so that gets its own column.
Laying this out took me longer than I hoped. The grid adornment looks nice, but the way I’ve done it so far doesn’t maintain the relationships of rows and columns in any automatic way, and I haven’t internalized how to tweak the formatting of the notes easily.
Coming up:
- Filling out the details from the Word document version of my simple week-by-week topic outline
- Figuring out how to indicate status (and what bits of data I need to indicate)
- Seeing if I can work out a better way to manage the grid layout