Colorado Daily | Post-Super Bowl hangover at CU-Boulder?
Look for some penetrating commentary and analysis by Professor Kim….
I ordered this…
…but this arrived instead….
I use the i>clicker student response system in my large lecture class. I requested to receive a complimentary instructor remote from the i>clicker company to use during lectures. There was a delivery problem with my initial request from two weeks ago, so I contacted the sales rep again last week. She apologized for the problem and told me she would send a remote out to me via 2nd day delivery.
The package arrived today, but inside was not an instructor remote nor a remote of any other kind. It was a children’s book titled “Easy as Pie”! Apparently, sending something out correctly is not as easy.
Prezi — Delivering Your Idea
I’m highly intrigued by this new presentation tool/paradigm. It would need to come with a good presenter control interface to be most effective. [HT: ProfHacker]
The Hunt for a Good Teacher
I do have some students every semester that come up to me and tell me that they heard good things about my classes and/or my teaching and that’s why they signed up for my class. For what it’s worth I do always try to meet or exceed the expectations, with which those students enroll.
A Professor’s Prayer
Lord, grant me the courage to fail the students I cannot pass, the strength to grade 100+ finals and 20+ lab reports, and the cockroach-level survival skills needed if a mentally unstable grade grubber gets an A-.Won’t be saying this prayer until December. [Via The Monkey Cage]
A Long Waiting List for the IPE Course
I just checked the enrollment for the international political economy (IPE) course I will be teaching in the fall. The enrollment limit is 40. There are 40 students enrolled and 17 students on the waiting list. I doubt that it’s my reputation that has resulted in the long waiting list.
How to Educate (Undergrad) Students
I’m very explicit to my undergraduate students that universities and professors are not very good at training students to be creative—“novel problem-solving.” What I do try to teach students is to always keep an open mind and to question their underlying assumptions, so they can be open to new ideas.
United Nations Reform
A student in my summer term class lifted this whole essay as his final research paper. I haven’t been teaching for too long, but I certainly could smell a plagiarized paper right away.
Shoot me…shoot me now!
This is the opening sentence of a student’s final paper I’m grading:
When evaluating the importance of environmental issues within the international community empirical happenings, especially within the United Nations hold clues as to how environmental issues are pegged.
Okay. After reading it over three times, I think I finally get what the student is trying to say. It’s 4:43PM right now. I will see how long it takes me to read/grade this paper.
[Update: It all went downhill from the first sentence on. I took two short breaks, and it’s 5:27PM now.]
