Posted in University Life on Sep 9th, 2008
For my grump du jour about superfluous technology in the classroom, I need to talk about the actual consequences of that value-added bullcrap they shrink-wrap with textbooks. This semester I bought about half of my books from the Amazon marketplace, whose sellers often have new copies for the price the campus bookstore charges for used. [...]
Posted in University Life on Sep 8th, 2008
I’m going to bitch again about misuse of technology in the classroom. In one of my classes today we were dismissed a few minutes after arriving because the prof couldn’t get the desktop PC that projects the Powerpoint slides to boot. This despite the fact that almost all of the students had printouts of the [...]
Posted in General Science, University Life on Aug 26th, 2008
You know what’s annoying about the first day of classes? Not much of the time is spent on, you know, the content of the classes, or even on meta-level expostulation about the content of the classes. It’s all a drudging plod through the syllabus, complete with a bullet-pointed version of the grading system and [...]
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