I came into work today to find out that the instructor of a class I TA is sick and he wants me to teach class. Since 2 hours is not enough for me to effectively create a lecture, I decided to try a “fun” activity. The class would be split into small groups and would choose a topic to “research” and present a short presentation to the class. The only problem… how many students would show up for class? There are about 50 currently enrolled in the class, and that would be too many for my “fun” activity idea.

Luckily (I guess), there were only 15 at the start of class. A few more wandered in after a few minutes. It was an interesting exercise. I’m not sure of the success of the activity; I don’t know if they learned more or less today than on days with a traditional lecture. Anyhoo, I think I’m going to try to convince the instructor to make the presentation they gave worth a fair amount in their final grade - about the same as a regular homework. I suspect that the students did about the same amount of work in class today as they did outside of class for a recently turned in homework assignment.

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