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November 18, 2009, 2:00 pm
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15 Responses to Open Thread Wednesday!
William Patrick Wend - November 18, 2009 at 4:49 pm
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What do you do/is there anything that can be done about students lying about email? On our campus, the newly implemented email system for students has been quite troublesome. Emails get dropped, lost, or don’t arrive for days at a time. Now, I know many of my students have legit problems with this but I am starting to encounter students who use “whoops the email system sucks” as an excuse for not submitting work on time or as a crutch for poor work/attention to things I send out.
Julie Meloni - November 18, 2009 at 4:59 pm
“guest lectures” or “invited speaking” are popular places for things like this, as you build your CV (so I’ve been told). I filled in for 5 weeks in a colleague’s class and put that in a different place. But yeah, anything that shows your ability to do stuff, I’ve been told, can legitimately find a place in your CV.
OPIEWeb - November 18, 2009 at 2:53 pm
About a year and a half or so ago, a couple of programmer/bloggers combined their efforts and built Stackoverflow.com, a really powerful Q&A site for software developers. One of those bloggers (Jeff Atwood) runs that site, and the other (Joel Spolsky) runs a software company. In early October, the software company turned the code that powers StackOverflow into a reusable package called StackExchange so that people like me could bring you sites like OPIEWeb, the Q&A site for Organizational Psychology.
Some of the benefits of this technology are: easy search-ability, voting on both question and answer quality helps the cream rise to the top, user reputation helps to build trust both with the system and other users, and decentralized, wiki-style editing capabilities allow for real community control.
Like-minded individuals have built similar sites for various subjects – most of which have reach into the academic space. I wanted to take this opportunity to show you a few:
Neuroknowledge.net covers Neurology and Neuroscience
RunSubmit.com talks about the SAS statistical program
MathOverfllow.net gets into research level mathematics
Merspi.com helps folks studying for their VCE in Australia (I hear it’s really tough)
The complete list of sites is available at StackExchangeSites.com. I suspect you will see many more of these as word gets around. If you want to build your own, check out StackExchange.com for details.
Disclaimer: Aside from being a beta tester on the original StackOverflow and creating my own site (OPIEWeb.com) as part of the StackExchange beta, I have no ties financial or otherwise to any of the sites listed.
Brian Croxall - November 18, 2009 at 5:15 pm
This problem is one of the reasons that I stopped accepting assignments that were emailed in most instances. (Another was that I found that I couldn’t grade very well when looking at a computer screen.) If they have to turn in a hard copy, then their email isn’t a problem.
Of course, they could have a problem with their printer…but I make it clear to students that technology has been known to fail and that they shouldn’t count on it working at the last minute if they’re trying to get an assignment printed. Admittedly, I don’t score how on the mercy scale, but I can always adjust to something really catastrophic that happens.
Julie Meloni - November 18, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I usually say that I understand, and will simply look to the file creation or last modified date in the document properties. The vaaaaaaaaaast majority of students don’t know that data exists, and 99.9999% wouldn’t know how to change it if they were really trying to game the system. That allows me to say that yes, the email system sucks, but hey, look at that! the last-modified date of your file was before the deadline, so it’s ok. Or, more likely, it’s after the deadline and you can calmly point out the discrepancy/lie and work off that.
William Patrick Wend - November 18, 2009 at 4:50 pm
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A CV question: I filled in for a week (two classes) for a colleagues’ upper level English class. Is this something that should/could go on my CV?
William Patrick Wend - November 18, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I like the term “guest lecture” (that ended up being, more or less, what I did). Thanks!
Derrick - November 18, 2009 at 7:07 pm
My system: if they don’t get a reply from me saying just “got it,” then I didn’t get it. Period. It is their responsibility to make sure that they get a response. There needs to be a paper trail. I only send the message when I’ve actually been able to open the document as well.
OPIEWeb - November 18, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I think Derrick’s solution is the closest to ideal that you can get. There are no absolute certainties when tech is involved (anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something).
No confirmation email means it wasn’t received. It’s as clear as you can be and the worst case scenario is that the confirmation email gets dropped along the way prompting the student to follow up.
Julie Meloni - November 18, 2009 at 9:01 pm
I should note that’s what I do (the email confirmation, etc) but if a student is pressing the issue, like specifically trying to get away with something, I fall back on the ol’ file properties deal. I’ve only ever had to do it twice.
William Patrick Wend - November 19, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I do the same thing: send back an “got it” email. I’ve only checked the last file update in properties once so far…
Jason - November 29, 2009 at 11:59 am
I just put it in the service section–which is probably just a catchall section for all the things that one needs to capture but that most people reading your cv don’t really care about.
William Patrick Wend - November 29, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Thanks Nels: Manuscript reviews sounds like what I want to use. Excellent.
Nels P. Highberg - November 28, 2009 at 6:49 pm
William, I have a section on my CV called Manuscript Reviews, and I list the companies and journals for whom I’ve done such reviews. I have it at the end of my CV before the service section, but I list the publishing companies that have asked me to review textbooks and the academic journals that have asked me to review articles. I bet some people split the two, but you can have it in some kind of review section.
William Patrick Wend - November 28, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Another CV question: Earlier this semester I was asked by the company who published a book I am using in my classes to answer some questions about it and read potential supplemental/replacement essays/stories for an upcoming edition. If that goes on a CV (yes? no?) under what sort of heading would it go?
Again thank you Julie for your help: your CV was influential in the most recent remix of my own (still need to upload it!).