A practice session at The Teaching Company (or, The camera really does add ten pounds)

You may have heard me mention that I'll be taping a course for The Teaching Company's Great Courses catalog. This week, I went up to Chantilly for my first practice session. (Incidentally, I've been asked not to talk publicly about the content of a course that's still very much in development; fine with me, as I expect the course will be mutating as I write it. So I'm not going to tell you what the course is about. Yet.)

I've used Teaching Company lectures for the kids. In fact, right...