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First-time adjustments
Ah, the first time teaching a course, and you have to shift everything around … Some students in my on-line course ordered the books from Barnes and Noble, which didn’t have them in stock. So, inevitably, that was the book that we start in the second week of the course. So, its being an on-line […]
A personal touch
Because I’m paranoid about technical problems, I’ve been trying to call all my students in my distance-learning course as I can, and I’m discovering something—I’m learning some stuff about the course that’s entirely unrelated to technical problems, as students read the syllabus and ask me questions they may not have if they only had e-mail […]
Classes begin
I’ve started my first distance-learning course this semester and had the orientation session with most of the registered students on Saturday. They seem a nice bunch, and apart from the complete lack of tech support to show them the system—and except for the fact that most of them didn’t have the proper net access—it worked […]
Plagiarism again
I discovered two cases of plagiarism over the last few days. I feel rotten for the betrayal of ideals and the time I had to spend tracking it down instead of reading other students’ work. I’d like to spend a minimal amount of time on this and not let it get to me, but my […]
I think I’ll be trying—gasp!—Blackboard’s
I think I’ll be trying—gasp!—Blackboard’s chat facility over the next week with my undergraduates. It’s java-based and so incredibly clunky, but I’m not sure how else to do this. Requiring students to sign in to the web portal will also be clunky, so we’ll see how it goes.