Almost Ready....Really I am ready, and How to Lab

 Two more work days until the students show up, about dang time.

I don't know about you, but I have a difficult time really fully planning until I meet the class. I know most of the students, and all of my physics students were in chemistry last year, but it is hard to get a feel for how things are going to go. Not to mention how things are set up this year- I don't want to get into that again, check my first post. 

Spent a fair amount of time on figuring out how to do labs in chemistry and physics. Going to give this a whirl. Each class is meeting on Google meet, including the in class students. From this each in class student will be paired with an online student to do the lab. The in class person will do the work and report observations, while the online person will do the data and observation recording.  There is a way to manually set up break out groups in Google meet, but today I found an extension to help automate the process, called of all things, Google Meet Breakout Extension. Messed around with it a little, seems good. Will see how it works next week.

Had a workshop on how to use an extension to take attendance during Google Meet. Gave me a headache. Do we really need to have one, I can just take attendance manually as I would normally. But what do I know? There are just so many things people are pushing on us to use, that we are losing sight of the actual teaching.

Anyway.....