I've been advising students on what classes they need to take all day. It's actually been kind of fun having them come in, relay style, to have me register them. I've got about 30 minutes now of free time before the parade begins again. My coworkers were nice enough to go in on a pizza today so none of us had to leave campus to get food for lunch, and I'm currently feasting on a handful of Hot Tamales in order to 'keep the sugar rush going'...
I went up to the nursing department and picked up an accu-chek lancet pen for tomorrow's microbiology lab. We're going to type my students' blood, which means I have to make them bleed. I figured that using blunt lancets and stabbing them manually last year was a little harsh, so I collaborated with people who know what they are doing this year and got better equipment. Still, I can tell people I've been stabbing my students and getting away with it.
We had our first real cadaver labs yesterday for A&P, and my students were incredibly well behaved/respectful as well as very interested in the structures we were looking at. It is a promising sign!
I made an avatar on SecondLife to do some research for my boss on the viability of teaching online classes through the service. I don't think my little Dell laptop is up to the 3D rendering task of having my avatar move through the world, it was quite frustrating trying to get it to work, but then again I might just have to get used to it. I was never into stuff like Everquest or anything, so I might just have a learning curve.
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Wow...no whiners or "that's so gross" students?! Impressive!
They got the 'that's so gross' out of the way a couple of weeks ago when I took the cadaver out from under its covering during the bone lab just to let them see it. Nobody touched it, and we weren't studying it, so I didn't consider it a real cadaver lab. I had one girl actually cry the first time she saw it, bless her heart...
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