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OP, if you remove the spam filter from your email, you will receive many offers for quick, cheap, reputable online degrees which will lead to well-paying, interesting work as an educator. As a bonus, you will receive interesting offers for many other products of equal value.
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« Reply #16 on: July 10, 2008, 12:46:00 PM » |
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ps: I'd vote for kssciguy as a real guy. Or a bot seriously working overtime.
I would also say he's real; consider that he didn't link to any spam websites, but just suggested OP Google stuff. Unless they've managed to fiddle with Google to make their spam website come up near the top, that would not appear to be a useful spammer strategy. On preview: OP, if you remove the spam filter from your email, you will receive many offers for quick, cheap, reputable online degrees which will lead to well-paying, interesting work as an educator. As a bonus, you will receive interesting offers for many other products of equal value.
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« Reply #17 on: July 10, 2008, 12:49:32 PM » |
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Hi! I’d like to be an educator but I’m not sure which good education degrees that I can specialize in? The ones with good pay and don’t take so long to complete? I’d like to pursue the courses online.
OP, assuming you're serious, if you want to teach K12, you need to check with the department of education in the state(s) in which you want to work to find out the requirements for licensure. If you are asking about college teaching, you need a PhD, and online PhDs are generally frowned upon in much of higher ed. (That may eventually change, but higher ed is extremely conservative, so don't hold your breath.) |
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__________ Zharkov's Razor: Adapting Zharkov a bit to this situation, ignorance and confusion can explain a lot.
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« Reply #18 on: July 10, 2008, 06:44:32 PM » |
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If the OP is a real person, wow... just scary. How can you want to teach but not care what you are teaching? Teaching should come from a passion, or at least a general interest, for the discipline one teaches, not a desire for the easiest path to money.
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« Reply #19 on: July 10, 2008, 07:58:23 PM » |
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I vote for sock-puppetry here. If the OP is serious, I'll echo what an earlier poster said: becoming a teacher is all about interpersonal communications, and one way you demonstrate that is with, well, real interactions with real people.
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Prephd, in all that black, you are like the anti-pink-me. Freewill is a beeyaaatch
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« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2008, 10:45:57 PM » |
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And the spam has landed! Has anyone got a knife? I need a snack.
Eat up, everyone. You will be happy to learn that: "you can learn flexible and at your convenience." Sadly, however, you will not learn to write in standard English.
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« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2008, 10:51:56 PM » |
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Surely it's a coincidence.
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« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2008, 10:59:08 PM » |
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I see from the spambot's link that
"Online Phd programs give you the chance to earn a highly regarded academic honor - a doctorate degree."
My PhD is the regular old non-online variety - am I still honored and highly regarded?
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« Reply #23 on: July 10, 2008, 11:18:28 PM » |
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I see from the spambot's link that
"Online Phd programs give you the chance to earn a highly regarded academic honor - a doctorate degree."
My PhD is the regular old non-online variety - am I still honored and highly regarded?
Yes, but only by us old-school types, awash with misoneism¹ and tied to that oft-discredited notion that quality matters. ¹It's a good word, from this site, for those of you who didn't recognize it from the A.Word.A.Day mailing list. It's better in several respects than "Luddite" or its variants to describe the kind of thing it describes. |
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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« Reply #24 on: July 10, 2008, 11:28:43 PM » |
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Why all this harsh-itude?
Neutralname, did you make up this charming word? Three Hello Kitty stickers for you! Why thanks, pandora. I came up with the word myself, but I'm far from the first. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hars***ude you can also find many instances putting it into a search engine. |
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« Reply #25 on: July 10, 2008, 11:32:44 PM » |
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Heh. Interesting manifestation of the CHE's s***-filter. |
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« Reply #26 on: July 10, 2008, 11:49:06 PM » |
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Heh. Interesting manifestation of the CHE's s***-filter. Yes, I was impressed when I found that it will let by "asshat" but if you replace "hat" by "clown" it balks. I wonder why? Nobody thought of using the former as an insult? |
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« Reply #27 on: July 10, 2008, 11:54:38 PM » |
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Heh. Interesting manifestation of the CHE's s***-filter. Yes, I was impressed when I found that it will let by "as shat" but if you replace "hat" by "clown" it balks. I wonder why? Nobody thought of using the former as an insult? (italics added) Also, since it will delete parts of words, it apparently doesn't know what "shat" is the past tense of. |
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« Reply #28 on: July 11, 2008, 08:20:04 AM » |
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Regarding the spam, which was removed pretty quickly: it does seem a lot of effort for people to go to: first placing the inquiry, and then putting the fake reply with the link to the site. I agree that it wasn't a legitimate request for info, but I'm surprised that someone would make such effort to promote their site when it had such little chance of success. The spam post was up for a few hours, maybe, if that. Would this be a blanket strategy on lots of education discussion groups, or do you think the CHE fora were carefully selected? Is anyone actually making money from any of this?
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« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2008, 08:33:51 AM » |
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Heh. Interesting manifestation of the CHE's s***-filter. Yes, I was impressed when I found that it will let by "asshat" but if you replace "hat" by "clown" it balks. I wonder why? Nobody thought of using the former as an insult? There was, at one point, a fora-wide innundation of "assklown" led, I believe, by Prytania. I think the mods had to add it as a special case. |
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