My T Th class is all over but the make-up speeches at the final exam. This has been a particularly lively class. Most of them have done very well with the delivery part of the speeches. Some have also been spectacular at marshaling their supporting material. There are a few who have chosen to do little of the homework and pretty much just bs their way through the speech situation. But only two or three. Most folks have done their best and some have done very well. Next year I think I'll get permission from folks to use their names so I can talk about the best speakers here in my blog.

As for the interpersonal class, the presentations have been good, a couple of them very good. I got the final test finished yesterday. I hope people study for it. Nothing on it should be a surprise.

The essays for the conflict management class came in this week. Some folks never opened the text for that class. Much as I love Crucial Confrontations, I think I need to go back to using a Crisp publication -- something that we can actually work on in class. It looked like at least half the writers didn't quote from the text (an automatic C). And at least one person bombed out by talking about a political conflict instead of an interpersonal one. Sigh. I'm always learning about stuff I need to make more explicit.