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Six weeks in: where did September go?

As I expected, things have been generally hectic so far this semester. Teaching every day means that I don't get a work-at-home-gather-my-thoughts day, so this usually falls to the weekend. I am not too behind on grading so far, but do have a virtual* pile of grading to do right now. Here are a few observations of how things have been going: The online quizzes seem to be working out pretty well for GEO 121. Students have from Monday morning until Friday night to go in and take the quiz. I've already had one slip-up where I forgot to post the quiz, so I gave the students an extra day to take it (even though I only posted it two hours late!). Then there was a Blackboard outage this morning, so I extended the time even longer. I'll be sure to get my quiz for next week posted today! I have still been dealing with technical problems in our lab, but I am optimistic that things will finally be settled in the next week or so. Our setup for logging into the computers was changed ove