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Getting back to reading
Finished one batch of short papers yesterday for the undergraduate class—had graded it the prior week (which is easy, as it’s pass/fail, and grading is much harder than providing comments) and had gotten bogged down in a number of things while trying to provide comments. Then I got through two batches of quiz answers for […]
Keeping up
It’s a holiday, but I still need to get some things done before my family heads out of Tampa for the day: time to update some quizzes from last semester and upload them to Blackboard. Time to download student responses from last week and read/grade them. A former student e-mailed me a few days—very nice […]
Technology standards
I’m in the PT3 workshop right now, on campus, and thinking about how to use this in the initial-certification courses I teach. The relevant standard is the sixth one: social, ethical, legal, and human issues. The question is how to integrate an assignment with this standard—the standard isn’t the problem, obviously, since it’s right smack […]
First day of class
Absolutely wonderful first day of class. Relaxed, only moderately cranky equipment, and the class began to rethink its collective interpretation of the 1640s Mass. general-court decrees on education.
Main job this morning
Time to get a few loose ends tied up from the fall. A student who had a car accident right before the final is taking a make-up this morning, and I need to grade a few papers that came in late, get some stuff to student groups from my undergrad course, and then move on […]