John, Sounds like you had what I call a "Floating Talking Head" experience. It's happened to me before.
Basically, you are in the middle of teaching, presenting, or briefing, and you experience a trippy sensation of almost being outside yourself. As you talk, your self awareness gets distorted, and you become very aware that you are forming sounds with your mouth. You are like "whoa! I am talking about stuff!" to people! Whoa! This of causes messes up whatever it was you were trying to say, or you speed up, or get goofy. There is no cure, though some professors try leather elbow patches and a pipe. Best just get some cookies and coffee and chalk it up. Tomorrow, if I were you, I'd review what you were covering when you experienced FTH just to ensure that your students are on the same sheet of music. HTH, Charles ""John Neiberger"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I just feel the need to rant/vent for a bit and I knew there were a > bunch of you who might be able to relate to this. I've started teaching > a short, one-session general networking class for some of the people > here at the bank. The first session, which was really just a runthrough > with a handful of students, went fairly well. In fact, it went so well > that they increased the number of overall attendees to about 60 or so. > > Last week I had another session that went exceptionally well, except > for a couple of students who really didn't want to be there. I couldn't > have asked for it to go better, and my boss heard lots of good things > about it. One person even said I should be a professor! :-) Now, that > brings us to today.... > > Today I had an afternoon class, and in my opinion it sucked rotten > eggs. I feel embarrassed to have been involved with it. I can't > think of too many ways in which it could have gone worse. I rambled, I > flew through 2.5 hours of material in about an hour, I lost my place a > lot. I'm not certain that I ever formed a train of thought longer than > a couple of cars, and I think even those trains were without engine and > caboose. > > Have any of you other instructors had days like that? As I even > mentioned in class, I felt like my 'explainer' was broken today, and it > certainly was. I'm hoping that I could get some sympathy from other > instructors with similar experiences. > > Okay, I'm going to go drown my disappointment in some coffee! > > John Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=62829&t=62826 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
