Blogging VS Blackboard

The students in my MW morning small group communication class would rather that I use Blackboard than the blog I've set up for them. Sigh. I guess I'll have to make the change.

New Start

My three classes this quarter are lively and many of the students seem engaged.

This, at least, is my beginning observation. It may just be that there are a few loud people in each class who chit chat, engage with me, and generally make noise. The week has been a bit chaotic with people needing to get into classes and the school encouraging us to do everything we can to let as many people as possible in.

I'm teaching two sections of small group communication and one section of interpersonal. I also have two weekend workshops: Listening and Team Skills. I put the team skills class into the schedule just before registration as a way of getting people an "anchor" class -- a way of getting into the system so that they can register early in November. My service to the college, as it were. And also, because I'm going to be hiring a new part timer to teach the spring one credit workshop, Conflict Management, I needed to pick up and extra load unit.