1. Yesterday we spent a half hour reading in each class. Hack, hack, cough, cough, hack, sniffle, hack, cough, cough. I walked around with a Kleenex box, but there were few takers. This is an English class, but maybe I should take a few moments to lecture on the Germ Theory of Disease.
2. An administrator came by to check on a student who's been absent seven days. No one noticed the one who has yet to show up, but miraculously is still on my attendance list.
3. Yesterday's tie was declared "not as girly."
4. Students took umbrage at a letter to the editor (the first one, the "just kids" one.)
5. Today we're examining specific blog entries from different classes, talking about what makes for effective, non-doofus writing in an online environment. It's tough to drag students away from bad habits garnered from AIM or MySpace. Gratuitous exclamations and ROTF LMAO don't exactly add credibility.
6. Freshfolks are having a class discussion where I type up their thoughts on screen as they talk. Powerpoint works okay for this, but if there's a way to edit in fullscreen mode, someone tell me. Thanks.
1 comment:
Instead of "just kids" how about "just a bunch of dumb suckers, for whom we feel a little sympathy, having been dumb suckers once, except for the ones that we suspect will be more successful in life than we are."? I don't know, "just kids" does have succintness going for it.
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