#CoursePrepDrinkingGame
Okay, so the grading drinking (water) game really helped me get some water in, so I guess it's time for a new one: course prep style.

So #CoursePrepDrinkingGame loading now. (1/?)

1. Find a typo.

2. Realize you don't understand your own directions.

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January 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
12. Spend way too much time making graphics.

13. Think while making graphics, "I'm spending way too much time on this."

14. Also think, "This is LOW PRIORITY."

15. Ignore yourself, continue making graphics.

16. Go on social media.

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February 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
8. Notice your terrible posture.

9. Sit up straight/adjust laptop/pretend this new ergonomic setup will sustain.

10. Correct accessibility issue.

11. Discover you completely left something out of the course during the prior semester.

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January 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
3. Dead link.

4. Try to find working link of reading.

5. Create a PDF so you have a back up of the reading in case it disappears from the internet forever.

6. Make changes to an assignment based on a note to self.

7. Don't understand your note to self.

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January 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
17. Look at someone else's course or course syllabus.

18. Think you're teaching your class all wrong.

19. Consider adding an activity/assignment.

20. Do(n't) add the activity/assignment

21. Try to remember how you taught the class before.

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February 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
36. Re-upload a file to Canvas/LMS.

37. Re-open a file you just closed.

38. Revise a rubric.

39. Have to do math 😩😩😩 (<--- The English teacher's lament).

40. Accidentally update the wrong assignment and/or rubric.

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February 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
22. Wonder if you've ever taught the course before or if it was just some weird semester-long fever dream.

23. Overthink something.

24. Realize that something you're doing in one class should also definitely be done in another class.

25. New syllabus clause.

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February 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
26. Start to write directions, remember you have already written similar directions for a different assignment. Two sips if the assignment is for a different class.

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February 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
27. Go on a hunt to find the previous assignment. Take a sip per class you hunt through and/or assignment you click through until found.

28. Edit previous assignment.

29. Update new assignment.

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February 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
30. Edit previous assignment again for clarity, typo, etc. One sip per typo/error. Three sips if you make more work for yourself.

31. Fail to understand your own logic in arranging assignments/activities the way you did.

32. Lament having too many tabs open.

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February 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
41. Lament the fact that you have integrity.

42. Practice productive procrastination by spending an entire day working on some new thing (a liquid syllabus) instead of actually prepping your class. Drink every time you think, "I should be prepping"

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February 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM