Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Yesterday I helped my co-teacher who is teaching Graphics Two this term in preparing the exercises for the class.

Unlike the other subjects, which normally have an orientation session for discussing the class policies of the teacher, for Graphics Two we decided that they would go straight to continuing their exercises from the first subject. That is, those of them who passed in Graphics One.

Also unlike one of my other co-teachers, I could not just pass all the students because the subject is "so easy." I believe they still have to show the proper amount of effort comensurate to the level of difficulty of the class.

What is surprising is that comparing where we left off last term and where the teacher of Graphics One last year said they ended, which are not at the same point, the numbering of the exercises (at least for the first ten) are the same as last year.

This may be partially due to the fact that last year, when the license for the software was delayed from being sent to me from the distributor, we had to have one session of graphing using spreadsheet software.

The numbering will differ towards the middle of the term though, because I plan to reserve the plates (the ones where only the finished product is shown with no or little instruction) for exams other than the finals.

The teacher of Graphics Two for this meeting has already agreed to it. He also apparently understands why I volunteered to complete the exercises for the course: its for my files, in case I teach the subject again next year, and for uniformity of the material from the prerequisite subject.

One major difference between us though seems to be that coming from a completely engineering background, he says that laboratory subjects always have a passing mark of 70%, and that is what he plans to use for this term.

At the very least, since I was only able to prepare up to exercise number 28 last year and last term we reached up to 50 exercises, I will probably have to make no less than twenty more exercises, projecting that they will be able to reach a grand total of a hundred exercises for the whole instruction on the software.

That is: if there are a hundred exercises I can get from the instruction manual. Either way, my goal for the next year is that the whole manual should be taught; so if it's more than a hundred exercises, that means that I will have to restructure Graphics One again to accomodate more than fifty exercises.

Yesterday afternoon I already gave the first ten exercises (should be more than enough for the first session) and the license file for September to Emil the computer lab technician.

And it's already time. I'll write tomorrow about my mechanics labs today. Class Dismissed.