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« Reply #705 on: March 16, 2007, 02:45:23 PM » |
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Why would anyone make email a two-step process?
Probably because they want to use the spellchecker function in the word processing software. Some web-based email applications are very rudimentary. You do realize that we are talking about students, right? The same students who can't be bothered to staple papers, address instructors by their correct titles, etc. Maybe they are plagiarizing their email messages, cutting and pasting from a website that provides grade grubbing arguments, class-missing/late-homework excuses etc. I wouldn't be surprised if such a site existed. I have a friend who works in res life. Students who were found guilty of doing dumb things and getting caught had to write essays as part of their punishment. One student plagiarized a "I have learned that alcohol poisoning is a bad weekend activity" essay from a paper mill. The paper even had details about going to a hospital in where you were supposed to [insert name here] and this bright young thing did not bother to fix that part. Oopsie. |
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« Reply #706 on: March 16, 2007, 06:33:50 PM » |
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Here's a letter I received from a student who introduced herself to me after a lecture on cell division the second week of the semester. She offered to email me her father's slides. Apparently she didn't like mine. I was completely shocked but still managed to politely decline. I got this that night anyway. And it really made me crazy because I taught this well and yet here's some kid's dad telling me how to do my job! Now I can laugh about it because as the semester went on, she turned out to be a good student and a bit of a brown-noser ...so this was about her brown-nosing, not my teaching skills.
Dear Dr. Minnow,
I talked to you after class today and told you my dad was a bio teacher and might have some overheads that you might like. I told him you didn't really care for how our text described it and asked if he had any diagrams that you might like better, and he sent me these [attachments], along with this message:
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KEY DIFFERENCES IN THE PROCESSES…
Mitosis produces 2 “body cells” that are genetically alike. It is one set of divisions.
Meiosis produces 4 “sex cells” that show some variation. It is two sets of divisions (Meiosis I, Meiosis II)
Meiosis I reduces the chromosome number from the full number 46 (2n) to half the total 23 (n). Meiosis II then is the same process as Mitosis.
In mitosis, during metaphase, the chromosomes align “End to End” (all 46) across the equator of the cell. In anaphase which follows, the chromosomes are split into chromatids that later replicate their missing half during interphase.
In CONTRAST, during metaphase of Meiosis I, the chromosomes align IN PAIRS (23) across the equator of the cell and instead of being split, the pairs separate from one another (Mendels Law of Segregation). The impact of this is to reduce the chromosome number to one half. Then when Meiosis II starts you have 2 daughter cells that essentially go through the same process of mitosis when the chromosomes in Metaphase II have to line up end to end since they are no longer a pair. The result is 4 cells that eventually become sex cells.
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I hope that you do not take any offense to me sending you these. I, personally, totally understood what you were trying to convey in lecture, but I sensed that you felt like you wished you could illustrate it more completely. If I was wrong, please forgive me. I hope that you can find these useful.
Cheers!!
Amanda Love
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« Reply #707 on: March 16, 2007, 09:05:32 PM » |
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yea...you're gonna take direction from someone who calls gametes "sex cells".
I'm glad your student turned out not to be a total pill.
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« Reply #708 on: March 16, 2007, 09:06:05 PM » |
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I just saw someone call someone a wanker in a TV show. Hee! (I wonder if the broadcast censors know atalanta's definition?)
I have become thoroughly acquainted with the term "git" from reading the Harry Potter Books. My use of vulgar language has started to take on a rather sophisticated tone since I started reading that series. |
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« Reply #709 on: March 17, 2007, 01:47:22 AM » |
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This just in at 11:30pm on a Friday.
Dear professor,
I had version A on the final, and on one of the questions it asked about
President Bush. I don't have the final on hand, but I know that I put A) down
for my answer and I got it wroong. I thought that question on the test was all
based on opinion rather than anything scientific. I was wondering if there's
anyway you could explain to me my error. If you could get back to me that would
be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Student
Now, while this may simply look like a student protesting a question to which she didn't know the answer (and who does that, anyway?), a very interesting footnote to this is that there was no question about President Bush on my *science class* final.
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« Reply #710 on: March 17, 2007, 09:11:41 AM » |
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This just in at 11:30pm on a Friday.
Dear professor,
I had version A on the final, and on one of the questions it asked about
President Bush. I don't have the final on hand, but I know that I put A) down
for my answer and I got it wroong. I thought that question on the test was all
based on opinion rather than anything scientific. I was wondering if there's
anyway you could explain to me my error. If you could get back to me that would
be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Student
Now, while this may simply look like a student protesting a question to which she didn't know the answer (and who does that, anyway?), a very interesting footnote to this is that there was no question about President Bush on my *science class* final.
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« Reply #711 on: March 17, 2007, 11:23:18 AM » |
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Now, while this may simply look like a student protesting a question to which she didn't know the answer (and who does that, anyway?), a very interesting footnote to this is that there was no question about President Bush on my *science class* final.
Hmmm. Perhaps, in addition to not knowing the material for hus exam, your student also doesn't know which professor of hus teaches which class. |
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« Reply #712 on: March 17, 2007, 06:41:17 PM » |
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I knew of a radio DJ that got into trouble talking about ***s one day. Problem was, he was British, and he wasn't talking about gay people. He was using the term as he knew it, to refer to cigarettes. :0
I'm British. A Canadian friend was very shocked when I told her that when we did cross-country running at high school, some people would stop to smoke a ***. I'd be shocked too. It's just like spending an afternoon at the gym, and then scarfing down half a chocolate cake. Maybe there's only a niggardly amount of health information available.... Cheers! Jeff Deutsch |
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« Reply #713 on: March 19, 2007, 11:51:49 AM » |
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I knew of a radio DJ that got into trouble talking about ***s one day. Problem was, he was British, and he wasn't talking about gay people. He was using the term as he knew it, to refer to cigarettes. :0
I'm British. A Canadian friend was very shocked when I told her that when we did cross-country running at high school, some people would stop to smoke a ***. I'd be shocked too. It's just like spending an afternoon at the gym, and then scarfing down half a chocolate cake. Maybe there's only a niggardly amount of health information available.... Cheers! Jeff Deutsch The cross-country running was compolsory. Have you seen 'Chariots of Fire'? Most of them had a cigarette before they ran the 100m. |
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« Reply #714 on: March 19, 2007, 12:11:51 PM » |
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How about....
"I missed the exam because I **unexpectedly** got called in to court to testify. Here is the number for the police officer involved: Lt. XXXX, number XXX-XXXX. You may call him to confirm."
As if the judge called this student the night before the exam to ask if he/she would be so kind as to clear his/her schedule and arrive in court.
As if the police officer would not mind if I randomly called him up and asked him if he could validate my student's absence.
Lovin' it.
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« Reply #715 on: March 19, 2007, 01:43:16 PM » |
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Could be true. A sheriff's deputy came looking for my husband to testify once. They needed him that day. Unfortunately for them he was out of town. They came to ask me and other members of his family where he was.
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« Reply #716 on: March 19, 2007, 05:46:28 PM » |
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Could be true. A sheriff's deputy came looking for my husband to testify once. They needed him that day. Unfortunately for them he was out of town. They came to ask me and other members of his family where he was.
Whoa, not to hijack this thread, but gennimom, you could start a thread telling us about this incident. It could be a wonderful place to post about our students' il/legal lives as well. :) |
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« Reply #717 on: March 19, 2007, 08:47:23 PM » |
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How about....
"I missed the exam because I **unexpectedly** got called in to court to testify. Here is the number for the police officer involved: Lt. XXXX, number XXX-XXXX. You may call him to confirm."
As if the judge called this student the night before the exam to ask if he/she would be so kind as to clear his/her schedule and arrive in court.
As if the police officer would not mind if I randomly called him up and asked him if he could validate my student's absence.
Lovin' it.
Call! I love calling the cops! And once, the absolutely inane story that my student was telling was proved to be true. The rest of the time, the cops & I just had some good laughs. (Campus police...) |
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« Reply #718 on: March 20, 2007, 10:39:40 AM » |
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I just received this one -
"Hi im a student at hooover and i want to know what are your reqeirments for getting in to your college."
The subject line had reqierments as the spelling.
Not only are the chances not rosy, it was sent to my email and I have nothing to do with who gets into my college. I don't know how the student got my email address?
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« Reply #719 on: March 20, 2007, 10:41:21 AM » |
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I just received this one -
"Hi im a student at hooover and i want to know what are your reqeirments for getting in to your college."
Not only are the chances not rosy, it was sent to my email and I have nothing to do with who gets into my college. I don't know how the student got my email address?
notaprof, I get emails all the time from folks who are not students at my university but want to know if course X will meet requirement Y for a professional exam, or if I can explain concentration Z. I have nothing to do with these things. I think being too early in the alphabet on the faculty list is a definite drag at times. |
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