Greetings Citizens. Marky is tired, so the posting will be short and sweet. I now have nineteen students in my black & white class. Some students bailed out because of their workload (including the person who brought treats today). The class is manageable and I think they all will do okay. We began crunching numbers today. They all sort of left with the deer-in-the-headlights look which doesn't surprise me. (Marci, if you're lurking, you can attest to what that look feels like)! But I think they are all bright enough to figure it out eventually. I had the students look at and respond in writing to a slide today. It was a Jacob Riis image. They wrote all these silly sentences without saying a word! That was a disappointment. But no fear. It provides me another teaching moment, I suppose. I want them to get used to the notion that they have something important to say when they respond to an image. I think if this idea works out I may get more lively discussions during critiques. We'll see.