Monday, December 5, 2011
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bearshortyIt is the end of the semester so that means my weeks are ridiculously busy and I have no time to update. I just make small notes and try to catch up on the weekends. One more week of the madness left.
Today was the last day of class at Local College with just finals left next week. That means I just gave a map quiz and evaluations and reviewed for the final and listened to paper presentation. And graded papers. So a mild teaching day – it is all about grading now. And to that end two amusing and/or slightly eye rolling stories.
1. You know what you shouldn’t do, student who wrote seven pages and needs eights and who therefore changed the font from 12 to 12.5, you should not email that said paper to your professor to print since it was late. Said professor will easily see the change on the Word Document and change it back before she prints. And even if you didn’t, she would still see that the font is bigger. Really, student!
2. Three of my students, who are performing arts majors, decided to “collaborate” on their last paper. Instead of just discussing the readings like you can do, they also sat down and outlined together and picked quotes and pretty much wrote the same paper. They didn’t understand why that is considered plagiarism. I talked to a few other professors in the department and we decided since they put some effort into the papers and seemed to do this out of ignorance, I would give them a C, which I think was a right call after I talked to them. The students seemed genuinely apologetic. One boy was almost crying and another girl emailed me later to apologize again hoping I won’t think less of her as a student since she really didn’t know you couldn’t do that. I did give them a chance for extra credit a bit.
HIMYM Ah, show. Why must you make me so sad for Robin even with that mean trick you pulled. I’m sort of glad Robin never has kids because that is how it works in reality. I don’t like – you either have a career or kids for women on TV, though. Ted or Marshall never had to wrestle with those questions. I just wish the show would settle all the shipping questions. Ted was great at cheering Robin up, I just hope it will not turn into love triangle again – or a square in this case.
Today was the last day of class at Local College with just finals left next week. That means I just gave a map quiz and evaluations and reviewed for the final and listened to paper presentation. And graded papers. So a mild teaching day – it is all about grading now. And to that end two amusing and/or slightly eye rolling stories.
1. You know what you shouldn’t do, student who wrote seven pages and needs eights and who therefore changed the font from 12 to 12.5, you should not email that said paper to your professor to print since it was late. Said professor will easily see the change on the Word Document and change it back before she prints. And even if you didn’t, she would still see that the font is bigger. Really, student!
2. Three of my students, who are performing arts majors, decided to “collaborate” on their last paper. Instead of just discussing the readings like you can do, they also sat down and outlined together and picked quotes and pretty much wrote the same paper. They didn’t understand why that is considered plagiarism. I talked to a few other professors in the department and we decided since they put some effort into the papers and seemed to do this out of ignorance, I would give them a C, which I think was a right call after I talked to them. The students seemed genuinely apologetic. One boy was almost crying and another girl emailed me later to apologize again hoping I won’t think less of her as a student since she really didn’t know you couldn’t do that. I did give them a chance for extra credit a bit.
HIMYM Ah, show. Why must you make me so sad for Robin even with that mean trick you pulled. I’m sort of glad Robin never has kids because that is how it works in reality. I don’t like – you either have a career or kids for women on TV, though. Ted or Marshall never had to wrestle with those questions. I just wish the show would settle all the shipping questions. Ted was great at cheering Robin up, I just hope it will not turn into love triangle again – or a square in this case.