Things went quite well today in both sections.? I presented the parameters of the class, let them know that college writing was going to be something quite different from their high school classes, and introduced the technologies that keep my classroom paper-free.? I never can tell which students if any are going to drop out and seek out smoother waters in another class, but this group didn’t seem inclined to bolt.? When we reconvent Thursday, I suppose we’ll see.
Creative Commons

Hardly the Last Word by Nathan P. Gilmour is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.Archives
Books I’m Reading
Good Books
Academic Theology
Christian Reference
eBook Resources
Education Blogs
English Literature
Family
Friends' Blogs
God Blogs
Language Resources
Miscellaneous
Philosophy
School Affiliations
Shopping
The Christian Humanist Podcast- Episode 68: Romanticism
- Episode 67.2: Good News for Anxious Christians
- Episode 67.1: The Office of Assertion
- Episode 67.03: The Best Music of 2011
- Episode 67.02: St. Nicholas at Nicea
- Episode 67.01: Singing Faith
- Episode 67: A Christmas Carol
- Episode 66: Desert Island Books
- Episode 65: Academic Conferences
- Episode 63.11: Technical Difficulties
-





I asked them if anyone was planning on dropping. No one moved. I said, “Feel free. I don’t know you yet, and it’ll be one fewer paper for me to grade.” They laughed nervously.
That’s cold, man. That’s cold.
And no one dropped after all! NUTS.