#6 Great Class

I think I taught a great class tonight. It was a class in Communications Ethics for Suffolk University, and I did something different. I set up two stools in the front of the classroom, and I warned the student that they would each have to come up and sit with me like a guest on a talk show. Each would have to talk about one of four topics: An article about a controversial cartoon that was published, something from Chapter 5 on confidentiality and the mass media, something form Chapter 6 on conflicts of interest, or the clipping they brought in that day. So they came up one by one and each talked for two or three minutes in response to my questions. Sometimes the other students asked them questions. The cartoon stimulated a very heated and emotional debate about the war in Iraq. I think the conversations taught them a lot about communications ethics. I was very pleased with the class.

I am way behind schedule in some of my committee work, but when it comes to teaching, I feel like I am really on top of things, and that feels good.