Today, I held a calculator workshop for my 9:00 AM Intermediate Algebra students. I covered the basics and gave them activities to model. Then, I covered graphing rational functions, finding the function value, and finding the point of intersection.

Response was mostly positive although most of the students appeared to feel insecure about using graphing calculators. For that reason, I attempted to be (and was) very cheerful, entertaining and optimistic.

I gave students an assignment that would be graded as homework: I asked them to email me from My NWACC Connection. I did this for two purposes: 1) to make sure students' email was working properly and 2) to increase the probability that students will repeat their email contact should they need help.