busy with preparations

I've started the preparations for the course of 2009.
We have a nice room at our disposal, where we can experiment with various formats for communicating science.

I'm doing a course myself, to become an official university teacher. I use it to improve my materials, handout, presentations and the lot. It's great fun. My issue is that P&P as it was previously is marvelous to do, both for me as for the students, but I cannot handle it for large groups. Thus I'm thinking about new formats. So far I think about introducing peer reviewing and peer feedback.

I designed a schedule yesterday including a feedback session. I still have some questions, I 'll consult my tutors.
Now I need to write a manual, basically for all the separate sessions since they are all different and serve a different purpose. I'll start with some obvious elements, and then try to work out the part about peer feedback (works also for my own port folio). Next week I'll attend a meeting on designing a complete course, I might discuss my schedule for P&P. And then it can also be put into my port folio, after assessment by my peers and tutors.

I already defined the deliverables and their weight in the grading: small talk, search strategy, paper, peer feedback, presentation.

Today I worked on finding books to serve as back ground information during P&P. We have nice books on searching, writing and presenting. Found some e-books, and go to check the physical library to see the quality and value of some printed books.