Clouds

Due to the upcoming Friday International Woman's Day holiday, the Friday typhoons presentation was combined with the Wednesday El Niño presentation. This also put the climate change playlist on Thursday morning. The climate playlist at present runs 55 minutes. 

Brenda watches the climate change playlist.

Attendance was light at the start, but by thirty after the hour the class was in place. 


Having the newest information at the end continues to work well. By 9:07 the clouds playlist was started after a brief wrap on the climate change playlist.

Hedweag, Margarette, Lomalinda

After the clouds playlist wrapped just after 10:00, the class undertook cloud drawings.

Darx, Jasen, Kaylem

Shirleyann, Brenda, Harriet

Lomalinda works on her cloud

This laboratory continues to provide flexibility to run videos, such as this term, on climate change and clouds to cover for the loss of Friday class to a holiday. The coloring is a nice change of pace for the class and enriches the overall experience. I would not think one could ask college students to color with crayons and get a positive response, but term after term the students really work on their drawings. At this point in the term they trust me and roll with the directions given. The class is a safe space for the students, including for coloring with crayons.

Mesenda works on her cloud drawing

Lilly Rose, Leila Rose, Lisa Praise

Chauncey, Mandalee checking out online photos.

Joyleen and Mesenda 

Drawings

Sketch paper needs restocking. 

The cloud images assignment was altered spring 2024. Submissions were limited to .jpg and .jpeg. This had the unintended consequence of forcing students to make three separate submissions - which proves problematic in SpeedGrader. I am wondering if the follow-on assignment should be altered in some way. Either a return to document submission or covering the use of SnapSeed to label the photos. Maybe a Google Slides submission... something different. This might mean coverage in class which would also drop out the coloring. But perhaps it is time for a change. Training in Google Slides might be functional and useful to the students in the future. 


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