all things cbl

So the class I have been teaching, CIS3700 at Dixie State is now officially over.

This morning at 7:00AM my students all showed up to take their final exam. I ended up making a written and a hands-on portion of the tests. Reason being is I wanted them to prove what they knew on the Cisco router.

Last night before going to bed I chatted with Billy, one of my students. He suggested that I bring donuts.. or was it, that we figured nobody was going to bring any, so I ended up volunteering to bring donuts again.

Well, upon arriving in the entry way of the Udvar-Hazy building at school, those that were there busted up laughing upon seeing I brought donuts. Seems Matt (another student) also brought a dozen assorted donuts from the same place I did.

So we had 2 dozen donuts to pick from.. wow!

Later Billy showed up with some donuts that AJ picked up last night. There were only 6-7 left, but still.. Two and a half dozen for a class of 8 people. Needless to say, we didn’t finish them all. But it was a great way to end the semester.

I ended up getting the finals back to most of the students before they left, and posted their grades before I left to go to work. A pretty good spread of grades (A, A-, B+, B, C, C-, F) so I feel ok about it, knowing that the majority passed the class and will not have to retake it next spring.

Now that the class is over I get to figure out a book for next fall’s CIS3600 – Database Design course. So far I have 6 enrolled, and I believe I have the fear struck in most people that are considering it because of my first semester and ‘pushing’ them too hard. We shall see how many enroll.