That Was Fun!

Tonight was the first ENG 113 class, and I loved it!

8 seated students

8 students taking the class online/by camera

Relaxed atmosphere

It felt so good to be back in front of a class again.

There were a few tech glitches, like...I forgot to 'share the screen' until AFTER the powerpoint was explained.  Oops!  One of the students gently suggested that the other students might be able to see it a little better if I shared my screen with them.  I completely forgot about doing that!

There Moodle completely stopped just as we were starting the Discussion Board.  But it came back again.  Whew!

I jokingly told them when I was talking about planning and organization and jotting things down on paper that I had a list (and I held it up) of things we needed to accomplish tonight and that when we were to the bottom of the list, we were done.  Well, at 8:30, i was at the end of the list.  We reviewed once again the assignment for next week, and that was it.  We left.  I was home early!

Now I know it won't be that way each night, but it was a good way to start!

Plus my fear about walking out to the car alone?  Not gonna happen.  One of the male students said it was his responsibility to be sure we were all to our cars safely.  A small group stayed, chatting, while I turned off the tech stuff, turned off the lights, and we went out the door together and to our cars.

I just really enjoyed teaching tonight and I am looking forward to the rest of the class.  

Now if I can just figure out how to grade the discussion boards like Lori showed me on Monday........