Lecture 2

Better day today. I sat in on the meeting for the corresponding lab course, which is being run by a wonderful coordinator and ace group of grad students. Then I went over to the lecture hall early, and found out I wasn't the only person having problems with PowerPoint. Thankfully, my pdf worked just fine. So did the new clicker remote, and that meant I could walk all over the place. Being able to walk all over the place is important for being able to hold student interest. It is very hard to focus on a person who is just standing still and talking. Amazingly, the microphone also seemed to work fine. Phew.

At the end, I checked in with the students about the pace of lecture (just fine for the majority), and how confident they felt about their knowledge of the material (familiar, but they knew they'd need to study). Phew, good feedback. I think this course might just work.

From lecture, I have headed straight to the airport. Back to California to load up my junkstuff and then drive on back.

In recognition that January can often be a hard month, for so many different reasons...

*****GROUP HUG********

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