polly_mer
teaching science to the masses one person at a time
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Do you want a career in science? Sure, you do!
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« Reply #9765 on: October 26, 2009, 07:00:33 AM » |
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I was sent a jewel last night. Dear Dr. Mer,
I got a zero for quiz X. I did quiz X. Explain to me if you can why I got a zero for a quiz that I did.
thanks,
Student-who-is-worried-about-the-wrong-things-because-failure-is-so-an-option The reply I did send was:
Dear Student,
Your quiz was blank; no answers means no points.
Best,
Dr. Mer
Well, obviously that wasn't the correct answer because this morning I read:
Dear Dr. Mer,
It had answers when I submitted it. How did it become blank?
Student
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It is only a match if you shout back. Otherwise it is your colleague acting like a lunatic.
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marigolds
looks far too young to be a
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if it ain't ruff it ain't me
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« Reply #9766 on: October 26, 2009, 08:44:10 AM » |
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I guess "magic?" wouldn't set the science-y tone you're going for in this class, huh?
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"You and your mom are hillbillies. This is a house of learned doctors."
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dr_evil
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« Reply #9767 on: October 26, 2009, 08:47:23 AM » |
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In the brief moment between when the answers were written and she hit "submit," some nasty thief came in and stole all the answers. They are now being held hostage. |
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Drinking a lot always helps.
Wheeeeee! You go, oh evilicious one.
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« Reply #9768 on: October 26, 2009, 09:03:16 AM » |
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This issue of online "submission error" is becoming quite popular. For future classes, I will probably be adding into the syllabus some remarks about every student verifying completion of their online assignments as they occur.
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conjugate
Compulsive punster and insatiable reader, and
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Tends to have warped sense of humor
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« Reply #9769 on: October 26, 2009, 09:25:49 AM » |
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Well, obviously that wasn't the correct answer because this morning I read:
Dear Dr. Mer,
It had answers when I submitted it. How did it become blank?
Student
Who wants to help me draft a reply? Dear Student: It is your responsibility to understand the workings of our CMS. It would appear that you failed to indicate your answers properly before submitting. Please make sure you understand the process in the future, and see me if you need additional help, or contact our IT department at <contact information for IT>. |
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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anthroid
Proud yod dropper
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No happy socks because nobody gets Manitoba.
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« Reply #9770 on: October 26, 2009, 10:34:24 AM » |
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Dear student:
The answers you provided were so stupid that they wriggled, in embarassment, off the screen.
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Do you hail from Planet Hello Kitty? It's like an action movie, but boring.
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galactic_hedgehog
Procrastinating, Python-quoting, Blue Blazer-drinking, chocolate-chip cookie-eating, Pastafarian, Not So
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Mind Ninja
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« Reply #9771 on: October 26, 2009, 10:52:08 AM » |
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For our system, the answers must be saved before submission, otherwise they are not recorded. Of course, if they haven't done so, a pop-up warning appears, indicating this. (Not to mention, on the side of the window, the system keeps track of questions that are unanswered, answered but not saved, and answered and saved.) I still get one or two submissions like this per semester. I point this out to the students and say, "Sorry, but I do not know what your intended answers were."
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"A pun is primâ facie an insult to the person you are talking with. It implies utter indifference to or sublime contempt for his remarks, no matter how serious." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Hedgie loves to read. |
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gennimom
Somewhat Southern (Have I really posted that much?)
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Let's get summer over with! Me want snow!
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« Reply #9772 on: October 26, 2009, 10:55:58 AM » |
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I had a student send me a message last Friday that went something like this:
Dr. Gennimom,
I haven't been able to log in and take my quiz. The system has been having trouble since this morning. Can you extend the time to take the quiz?
Not quite there student.
The problem with this? He sent the message on the system he said he couldn't log into. He still had 5 HOURS to complete the quiz when he logged in. At the time he said the system was having trouble, several other students logged in and took their quizzes, both before and after he messaged me. He never took it.
I saw his response the next day and sent a message back along the lines of, "Why didn't you take it while you were on to send this message?"
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...only after reading gm's post, my new mantra is "always listen to gennimom".
Monday reeks! - Garfield The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a person (or something like that). |
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fosca
Peripatetic Professor
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« Reply #9773 on: October 26, 2009, 01:28:40 PM » |
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I just had a student also claim that she had completed her assignments for the class, but our CMS must've eaten them, as nothing has been posted for her.
I let her back in the class and told her to e-mail me the next time or two that she submitted something, so I could confirm that it actually existed. It should be interesting to see what happens. I'm also not letting her make up what she missed, but given that I drop a certain number of assignments and quizzes each semester, it shouldn't hurt her too badly.
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They equate learning with "understanding magically everything that [the professor] teaches us because it's all so easy" not "expanding their knowledge and ability to apply that knowledge to new situations and problems." |
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mystictechgal
Happy in my "full, rich adulthood", and as a
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One step at a time
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« Reply #9774 on: October 26, 2009, 02:09:52 PM » |
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Anyone have a silly animal picture? We need to get this into icanhascheezburger.
lolprofs! Chaucer's blog is awesome, even if Phillipa is addicted to Vespers, a new work about sparkylng vampyres. Someone beat us to it.Excellent! My favorite so far was the Noam Chomsky "Noam Noam Noam" one. I followed a link, and found Chaucer's blog. I am greatly impressed, even though I can hardly read it. I never learned (like most of my classmates) how to decipher the prolog of the Canterbury Tales. I hope others here will be pleased and impressed. My God, people! Did you read the one about the MLA? "And right so it befel in dede that a volvo did pulle up and a voys from it seyd, “You going to Philadelphia?” And thys creatur seyd, “I go to MLA,” and the voys seyde that MLA was part of Philadelphee and thus sche cam with hem. And in the volvo was a cumpany of thre yonge scolers, to wit I woman and II men. And thys creatur spak to them and seyd, “Tell me what maner ffolk ye aren.” And oon the men seyd, “My dissertation addresses the pressing question of the relation of the Owl and the Nightingale to the paradoxes of materiality and to changing ideas of spirituality at the same time that it questions what I would call outmoded models of allegoresis. Essentially, I propose that this heavily mediated text engages with debate poetry not as a generic exemplar but rather vis-a-vis an interstitial combination of truth claims and bestiary passages about cephalopods.” And thys creatur was soore confusid, and sche prayid to ower lord and wepid gret teares for the passioun of the child Jesu who had been born in a maunger to taak awey the synnes of all ffolke and also to deliver her from MLA." That's great! :-) I'm liking that blog. Thanks, conjugate. |
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If a pouting pluot ploughman planted pluots in a plot, and the plot were ploughed on Pluto, would his pluot ploy play out?
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« Reply #9775 on: October 26, 2009, 02:54:35 PM » |
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A student emailed me and addressed the email, 'Dear Secret.' I'm not cool with that, so I signed my response 'Dr Weapon.' In response:
'Dear Secret,
Thankyou miss. Hope to see you soon.
Yours,
Student'
Miss? I know some people wouldn't get the hint that I had signed my email with my last name, but Miss?
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If you want a cookie, bake a cookie.
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« Reply #9776 on: October 26, 2009, 03:05:09 PM » |
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A student emailed me and addressed the email, 'Dear Secret.' I'm not cool with that, so I signed my response 'Dr Weapon.' In response:
'Dear Secret,
Thankyou miss. Hope to see you soon.
Yours,
Student'
Miss? I know some people wouldn't get the hint that I had signed my email with my last name, but Miss?
I once had a student tell me he thought it was rude that students called me Professor or Dr. instead of Mrs. and Ma'am. But if you're only Miss, well then, perhaps your student thinks you are a Victorian milkmaid or a nervous young lady being introduced by Mrs. Hudson to Holmes and Watson. |
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Oseph....you are right and you make sense.
For your future comments, I insult very directly.
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gennimom
Somewhat Southern (Have I really posted that much?)
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Let's get summer over with! Me want snow!
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« Reply #9777 on: October 26, 2009, 03:06:38 PM » |
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I had a student send me a message last Friday that went something like this:
Dr. Gennimom,
I haven't been able to log in and take my quiz. The system has been having trouble since this morning. Can you extend the time to take the quiz?
Not quite there student.
The problem with this? He sent the message on the system he said he couldn't log into. He still had 5 HOURS to complete the quiz when he logged in. At the time he said the system was having trouble, several other students logged in and took their quizzes, both before and after he messaged me. He never took it.
I saw his response the next day and sent a message back along the lines of, "Why didn't you take it while you were on to send this message?"
Okay. WOW. I just received another message from this student. He said he misunderstood the submission time for the assignment and thought it was that morning, not that night. Then he just said have a good day and see you in class. No begging for mercy, nothing. WOW. |
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...only after reading gm's post, my new mantra is "always listen to gennimom".
Monday reeks! - Garfield The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a person (or something like that). |
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lousia
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« Reply #9778 on: October 26, 2009, 04:54:57 PM » |
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I had a student send me a message last Friday that went something like this:
Dr. Gennimom,
I haven't been able to log in and take my quiz. The system has been having trouble since this morning. Can you extend the time to take the quiz?
Not quite there student.
The problem with this? He sent the message on the system he said he couldn't log into. He still had 5 HOURS to complete the quiz when he logged in. At the time he said the system was having trouble, several other students logged in and took their quizzes, both before and after he messaged me. He never took it.
I saw his response the next day and sent a message back along the lines of, "Why didn't you take it while you were on to send this message?"
Okay. WOW. I just received another message from this student. He said he misunderstood the submission time for the assignment and thought it was that morning, not that night. Then he just said have a good day and see you in class. No begging for mercy, nothing. WOW. Can you clone this student? If so, I'll take three dozen for next semester. |
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anon99
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« Reply #9779 on: October 26, 2009, 05:28:38 PM » |
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I had a student send me a message last Friday that went something like this:
Dr. Gennimom,
I haven't been able to log in and take my quiz. The system has been having trouble since this morning. Can you extend the time to take the quiz?
Not quite there student.
The problem with this? He sent the message on the system he said he couldn't log into. He still had 5 HOURS to complete the quiz when he logged in. At the time he said the system was having trouble, several other students logged in and took their quizzes, both before and after he messaged me. He never took it.
I saw his response the next day and sent a message back along the lines of, "Why didn't you take it while you were on to send this message?"
Okay. WOW. I just received another message from this student. He said he misunderstood the submission time for the assignment and thought it was that morning, not that night. Then he just said have a good day and see you in class. No begging for mercy, nothing. WOW. I always like it when they say they can't download something or have been trying for an hour to do something. You then log on, check that they did indeed log on, but only for 3 minutes. |
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