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November 29, 2004
First Day of Winter Quarter
First day has gone decently. My 8am class was sparse. Only 8 people present and 12 on the books. That's a 66% attendance rate. Not so good. And at least one of them has a conflict, so... not sure how that will resolve. Chad showed up to become my teaching assistant... Not sure if I'll get to keep him though, with the class as small as it is. The lecture itself went well, but my Powerpoint is acting up on my laptop (or maybe it's the laptop, itself), but I can't get the dual-screen presentation feature (that shows me the screens on my own computer with notes, while it shows the regular slide to everyone else) to work properly.
Lunch with Lori at the Pita Pit... Love the Chicken Ceasar Pitas. Mmmmm. Oh, and we bought the last two pitas that we needed to get a free one on that buy 10 get the 11th free card... Cool.
Taught my Human Factors class at 2pm. Had a lot of fun being an amateur comedian for the first 20-30 minutes of class. Felt a little out of sorts because I didn't know that I was going to be teaching the class all that early, and so some of my materials are still old... and Just a few hours before the class, I got to talk to someone who taught it in the Spring and got some great new ideas... So I went into class thinking that I really wanted to change quite a bit of the plan for the quarter. Urgh... I think tomorrow's section will go a little more smoothly.
Now I have some free time before the first CCC leaders meeting of the quarter. It will be interesting because Joel (our student president) is back! This is good. Takes more of the burden off of me, and lets me concentrate on some other things. We're just about to roll out a new Mailing List for the club that doesn't require us to use Yahoo! Groups which was reallyl cramping our style. We need to be able to add bunches of people to our Mailing List all at once right at the beginning of a quarter, and Y! Groups limits you to 10! which is just unworkable for us. We have lots of people that still need to be added to the list. So that's something that I'll now concentrate on for the next couple of days.
That's about it at the moment.
Posted by Andrew at November 29, 2004 04:35 PM