(written 22:32 Wednesday 11 December 2019 JST)
I got to work on time and traded contact details with students who wanted to do homework over the holidays.
Chatted with Joanna, who I had met at Rin’s animalistic yoga event. We seem to have similar calendaring systems; i.e. we use them and follow them. We set up a meeting for mid January 2020.
Worked a bit on AB, but I could not do as much as I wanted because the wifi at the internet cafe (DiCE) was not working properly. I did not want to download a bunch of stuff via my phone, so I worked on preparing a list of my websites for my friend Deneys to look at in terms of doing copywriting. I composed this email to send him tomorrow once his schedule settles.
Hi Deneys
There are several different projects that I judge could use some help in promotions.
- promoting my workshops as Barefoot Rob
- promoting my art (Marble Track 3 animation)
- promoting my art (drawings)
- promoting MKP Japan
- promoting my art (mazes)
I don’t know if copywriting is part of promoting, but if there is a match here, I would love your guidance and help. In order of need (1 being the highest), if any of these speak to you, let’s talk about how I can make them better.
1. these are for my workshops as Barefoot Rob
- Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Tokyo-S%C5%8Dl-barefoot-more/
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/barefootrob/
- personal site https://www.robnugen.com/
2. these are for Marble Track 3
- personal site https://www.marbletrack3.com/
- Youtube channel https://channel.marbletrack3.com/
- Youtube playlist https://mt3s.marbletrack3.com/
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/marbletrack3
- Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.com/store/marble_track_3
3. These are for my drawings
- personal site: https://art.robnugen.com/art
- SmugMug: https://thunderrabbit.smugmug.com/
- Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.com/store/brightcolorfullines
4. This is for MKP Japan
- organization site https://www.mkpjapan.org/
5. These are for my mazes,
but I am doing the colorful drawings more than mazes now
- Personal site: https://www.amazeaweek.net/
- Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.com/store/amazeaweekdotcom <— this name should change to end with dotnet
Basically then headed in to work at JB and talked about the lesson for BP tomorrow. I made several corrections to the lesson plan and Eriko made the fixes. Super grateful for her making the lesson plans; relatively easy for me to go in and do the teaching part.
A good idea popped into my brain for the kids lesson at 15:30. We have worked on “what’s your name?” enough that the know to parrot back “my name is ______.” To help them with pronouns (and eventually reported speech), I ask “what’s her name?” or “what’s his name?” or “what’s my name?”
They like to play velcro ping pong ball darts, and this is where the brainstorm came. I used the same pattern to ask about scores. “What’s your score?” “What’s her score?” etc. We went through about 8 sets of having the kids ask each other the question and write scores on the whiteboard. Then went to “What’s your total score?” but I did not emphasize the word ‘total’.. I just gave them a chance to practice adding up numbers.