Class was a little frustrating this week. We were teaching them about editing, but only six students came out of 12. Only two students had their own audio, and the rest had audio on the equipment that was checked out by the missing students, argh. So they wound up just editing other people’s sound. I talked about destructive and non-destructive editing, and had them do one edit just taking out pauses, ums, and sound they didn’t think was interesting. That first one was a destructive edit. Then I had them do a second edit that was non-destructive, cutting and pasting out clips into new files, and arranging those in a multitrack.The students who were there were pretty into the whole thing. The computers are slow, but workable. I am feeling challenged by Rachel somewhat, because we prepare and discuss lesson plans together for our Monday classes when I am not there, but then she doesn’t always stick to them, and then I feel unprepared for Wednesdays. Also, the Wednesday schedule changed again, so school ends early on Wednesdays, and now there is lunch, then my class, then advisory. The elective and advisory are both mandatory, but I am concerned people will skip because there are no more “real classes” in the day.