{"id":166,"date":"2002-09-07T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2002-09-07T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=166"},"modified":"2002-09-07T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2002-09-07T18:08:18","slug":"first-time-adjustments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"First-time adjustments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ah, the first time teaching a course, and you have to shift everything around &#8230;<\/em> Some students in my on-line course ordered the books from Barnes and Noble, which didn&#8217;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 course, the adjustment is simple, merging the discussion threads for the whole book so I don&#8217;t evaluate <em>anyone<\/em>&#8216;s comments until after the whole period, and also delaying the first paper a few days.<\/p>\n<p>The students, all of whom are in a vocational\/technical teacher education program, are more skeptical of the &quot;established order,&quot; economically speaking, than I expected, heavily criticizing a recent Florida Chamber of Commerce report (which was the first reading).  So I need to finish up evaluating their first week&#8217;s worth of comments, make some general remarks, and finish my essay for next week (which I need to put up on the web site this weekend).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the first time teaching a course, and you have to shift everything around &#8230; Some students in my on-line course ordered the books from Barnes and Noble, which didn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-2G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}