Analogies

When I'm teaching a class or trying to make a point, I try to use a sports analogy. I feel its a much easier way to convey what I'm talking about.

For example, when the state decides to conduct a survey of "best practices" to develop standardized instruction and standardized tests, I think a sports analogy is helpful.

It would be somewhat like Auburn winning the BCS resulting in securing the National Championship, followed by the NCAA declaring that all upper division schools must use Aburn's offense and defense. Everyone would immediately scoffs at the concept and rejects it out of hand...and yet we will subject every student and teacher in the state to this same illogical conclusion when it comes to curriculum.

I'm currently creating a course for the SBDC at CSI. It's called "SEO Basics" and covers three basic elements of optimizing content for the web. It doesn't matter if someone is building a website or just maintaining a Facebook Album, updating their LinkedIn account or just posting content in blog or images to Flickr  or Picasa...these required are basic skills and processes to be follow...or it's like showing up to a baseball game in your shorts, t-hist and flip-flops...or like showing up to the any game without knowing how to play.

Hey, I think the analogy holds.