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

In my Intermediate Robotics class today, I wrote several topics on the chalkboard for our next topic, which is sensors and transducers.

Then I told the students present that they had to pick a topic by pairs that they had to report on. This is an advantage rewarded in acknowledgment to the students who arrive early for my class.

I also told them afterwards that the order of the reporting (two per meeting that we have) would be as I had written them on the board, since it is in order of simplest to most complicated.

Surprisingly (although not much, after all this still is a class made up of regular third year students), there were students who decided on the first topics even after they knew they would have the shortest amount of time to prepare their report.

I also told them about the proposal for the project required at the end of the term is due on Wednesday, with the budget and the time table.

They also have to include one of the sensors we will be talking about.

By the way, last Thursday, the seminars class had their first four presentations by the students, and there were very informal.

Too bad the director (and the brother president) weren't there or they would have emphasized again the need of the students for more oral presentation training, maybe even bring up the suggestion again of more English units for them.

The unfortunate part about this subject is for the students to be able to apply what they learned it has to be taught to them near the start of the term.

Nothing important can be left for so close to when they're finishing their project.

The last part of the term may just have to be all progress reports.

Session 1863 has to use some alternative teaching methods to lectures. Class dismissed.