Thanks, everyone!

I have added your suggestions to others made by some other equally generous knappers. I am assembling YouTube and other video-type resources and hope to add those you recommend.

Being a stubborn guy, I used my frustration with the class as motivation to use the Internet to spend many hours trying to figure out knapping. I wish I had done that before the class!

I have just heard from my instructor and it is my hope our failure of communication will just become a funny story to tell in the future. I suggested we start over and, with some more personal instruction, I think there will be a happy ending to this story.