Week One

The first week of semester is always hectic, but this one's been unusually so. In my Calc I class, I'm using an online homework/quiz setup; the students get their username and password when they pick up their textbooks. One of them, however, ordered his text from Amazon. We got him straightened out eventually.... My Linear Algebra course was put in one of our less attractive rooms. It's long and relatively narrow, with the blackboard along one of the long sides. It works well enough if you have no more than a dozen or so students, but there are twenty-four in the class this term. Some of them had to sit close to one end of the blackboard, making it almost impossible for them to see what I was writing. We managed to get it switched to another room. This one has both a blackboard and a whiteboard, and the seats are positioned facing the whiteboard. I've never worked with a whiteboard before.... (W, who has that room just before me, handed me a few markers as he was leaving, and it just hit me that I left them in the room. Eep. If they were his - as I suspect they were; he seems to like whiteboards - I'll have to replace them, most likely.) At least my E/NE Geometry course has met with no hiccups as yet.

I'll get back to the Renovation report later today.

Renovation, Day Two (8/18)

I seem to have come home with a mild but persistent case of Con Crud - a touch of a sore throat, not much more than that.

( On the Second Day )