Pariah Posted October 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2022 It's amazing how much grading you can get done when you don't have students interrupting you every 15 seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 18, 2022 Report Share Posted October 18, 2022 Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 Question: "What did Johannes Kepler have that Tycho Brahe lacked?" Student answer: "A nose. HA!" Well, she's not wrong. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 19, 2022 Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 In the process of grading the exams I gave Monday. Same structure for this class as always (*always = since fall 2014, when I started teaching this version of the course): essay format, 8 questions, 20 points each, best 5 scores make your exam score. I've got one student who only attempted two questions. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 There's your -2σ right there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 19, 2022 Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 Since total enrollment in the class is about 40, yeah, bottom of the class is -2σ. Mind you, I blundered upon a post somewhere on these boards where I noted the scores on the final, with 160 possible, ranged from 140 down to 12 (and there were two at 12). It seems to come as a total surprise that (1) no, you can't simply coast through college coursework like you could in high school, and (2) the old regurgitate the prompt technique for high school essays gets you nothing here. Makes me want to don my old Dr. Satan identity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 19, 2022 Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 I haven't taught for years, but I still see things that make me think "I can't wait to share this with the class." Then I get sad. But it doesn't last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 Students always ask how the subjects they learn in school apply in the real world. This book may help. Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 Hint for students: If you go to a teacher the last week of the quarter and tell them you need miraculous assistance to pass their class because you were too busy with the golf team (or football, or volleyball, or the school play, or choir, or whatever) to keep up with the coursework, you'll find that approximately 0% of your teachers are impressed by this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 Depends on the school play. What? Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 The relation to Greek and Latin explains it. That's why non-Greco-Roman terms in English have no unnecessary letters. Like "Gloucester" or "Edinburgh" or "knackered" or "colour" or "Featherstonehaugh". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 23, 2022 Report Share Posted October 23, 2022 I watched a few more videos, and I like him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novi Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 So, I find myself as a special education bus driver this year. I'm clearly not a teacher, but do I get any partial credit for having to drive student around? I do have to deal with the district bureaucracy telling me to ignore common sense and follow the rules. Especially when they're ones where who lost the paperwork causing the issue. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 Bonus points if you have parents criticizing you on top of all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 The conference last week had this one running through my head. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 You cynics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 I can see four physically different USB connectors on my desk without moving my head, and that doesn't include USB3 (which is also Thunderbolt) or Type B or any of the weirder micro connectors. Don't get me started on video connection "standards". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 I still remember Firewire being sold to me as the wave of the future! Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 It still is. ( 😜 ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 25, 2022 Report Share Posted October 25, 2022 Is it the future where Ming the Merciless conquers Earth after telempathically enslaving Wilma Deering and putting a slaver earworm in Buck's head? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 26, 2022 Report Share Posted October 26, 2022 No, it's the future where Spock shouts "WITNESS MEEEE" before heroically leaping into the radiation chamber, saving the Enterprise and becoming a Hulk in the process. He then takes Wilma Deering as his concubine, and their son becomes the Kwisatz Haderach, riding giant slaver earworms in the desert. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 26, 2022 Report Share Posted October 26, 2022 Oh yeah. Firewire, as opposed to fire water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2022 I still have a ZIP Drive with a parallel port connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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