There were some ups and downs with the course, mostly ups. I had an issue with the question of letting students create a gripe session without an outcome. That was marked as a true statement, but the fact that the question asked if a situation without an outcome could be effective told me that it was a false statement. Also, the suggestion of taking photos of students at the beginning of class seemed a bit strange. Perhaps it's because that I'm a male instructor who spends quite a bit of time at a nursing school (i.e., majority female students), but that seemed a bit off-kilter. I can say that I might feel strange if my instructor was photographing me. However, the class-opening writing assignments just reaffirmed what I have always believed about teaching -- that they can help focus a student's mind on a topic and square them into the academic mindset that carries them through a class to success, one day at a time.