Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

Just one more item about the Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lab class I was talking about yesterday: some of the students submitted their first written individual reports, and I sent one back.

This is because it had no analysis, even though there was a one-sentence conclusion.

I don't know from whom the students got the report format (or if it was from their general science requirement mechanics lab last term and if it was graded high written that way) but for one student, I sent the paper back, telling him what part to add and that he can pass it the next day without any deductions.

Now, this can be deterred by returning their papers rated after the first report, and as a lesson for the others, but then when I do this I feel obliged to allow those who submitted the first reports to pass an extra fourth report to be able to compensate for the low scores they got in their first reports.

And despite giving them a warning that anyone who asked for their notebook back after it had been submitted would get a deduction for the group, there were still people who did not copy the data while performing the experiment, even after I suggested writing all their measurements on scratch first before putting in the notebook. Is this part of a rush to finish early?

In the meeting for the seventh week of the first term of the first section of my Engineering Computer Aided Drawing and Design class, besides the solid with diagonals that I had one of the "accelerated" students to render, I also gave them one of their plates from the Manual Drafting class two terms ago that they had to make in the 3D software (and thus automatically have the isometric views) and to repeat the whole plate in the parts and assemblage system of the mechanical engineering symbols in the first software that we had used.

Afterwards they were supposed to compare and contrast their preference between the three (including manual drawing), in a text file.

Some students couldn't finish the third part (and obviously the last part, too) although most completed it - albeit going to the third hour of the session, so I'm not sure if I will give allowance to those who arrived late and worked slow.

Session 1201 doesn't seem interested in the class. Class dismissed.