Oh, hi there.
So first of all, I’m going to try to write a little more here. It’s been a while. The pandemic aftermath has kept me away from much production work, but there are other planetarium things to talk about.
I ran across some posted videos from the 2017 Pleiades National Planetarium Conference, and found my joint talk with my extrovert friend Patty Seaton, titled The Power of Introverts in Your (Planetarium) Classroom. I hadn’t seen it in a while.
Introvert kids may just clam up during activities that reward group participation. It’s important that teachers don’t mistake that reaction for a lack of interest or engagement. Me, I’m an off-the-scale introvert, and I could think of nobody better than Patty to team up with to talk about these introverts and extroverts, and how they may react differently in a classroom setting.
Since Patty is in a school system dome and I’m at a science center with a tight schedule and a large tourist crowd, she’s in a better position to put some of her tips into practice. This is a good reminder to me, though, to give the quiet kids a chance.
Anyhow, I almost never like watching or hearing myself talk. I especially didn’t like seeing myself staring into my iPad for notes – but the truth is this would have been a really difficult (and personal) topic for me to talk about without notes. At least not without a lot of practice and, frankly, memorization. It would have been less fun.