We're small enough of a university that the first few days a sign-in sheet gets passed around, and then the professor just knows everybody and can tell whether you're there or not based on whether you're there or not.
On the rare occasions there is a class big enough where this isn't possible, there is usually a card-swiping setup near the entrance. The professor will sit nearby and watch the monitor to make sure you aren't swiping somebody else as you come in.
As a small mercy it's done via sign in sheet passed around at about the midpoint of the class. I had a class that took verbal attendance like that many many years ago and promptly left that institution and never went back.
Awww sign in sheets ain't no thang.
It gets you your class participation mark without having to actually speak
sometimes at least
My biggest issue is that it encourages people to show up, when I'd rather they didn't, and worse still, it was specifically stated that attendance =/= participation, so these same people are encouraged to talk. All the time.
Yeah. Passively tracking who is actually here is one thing, but encouraging every 19 year old eager beaver to put forward their opinion on the myth of climate change or how religion has it all wrong, man is quite another.
Zen VulgarityWhat a lovely day for teaSecret British ThreadRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
Sometimes instead of asking a hundred questions you should just talk to the professor after class
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
Unless your question is actually salient, like when a prof explains the Howey test and then neglects to mention whether it is conjunctive or disjunctive.
Unless your question is actually salient, like when a prof explains the Howey test and then neglects to mention whether it is conjunctive or disjunctive.
You givin 2nd year arts students too much credit
the questions are not question they're like
"I just wanna say that I disagree with taking pictures of dead bodies"
Unless your question is actually salient, like when a prof explains the Howey test and then neglects to mention whether it is conjunctive or disjunctive.
You givin 2nd year arts students too much credit
the questions are not question they're like
"I just wanna say that I disagree with taking pictures of dead bodies"
ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
My second-8-weeks course later this semester will be a second year fine-arts course. First one I've taken. We'll see how that goes. I'm kind of looking forward to it
some people in my class get really pissy about this one guy who asks a bunch of questions each class
the same people who are running through warcraft dungeons during the lecture
I mean at least dude is listening
the thing is most of the time if one dude is asking a question out loud, a good proportion of the class is also asking the same question in their head.
Also the opinions of the "shit heads" in any class are irrelevant. Like people who bitch about a bunch of projects being due in the same week... when we've had all semester to work on them. Fuck those people.
Meeting today at 3:30 with website people to give them all of our research and shit
This week has been so long
So tired, haven't been able to nap at all this week to catch up on sleep because I've had to be out meeting with people or working on project shit until like 5 or 6 at night, so if I took a nap I wouldn't be able to sleep that night and then my schedule would be messed up and I'd be more out of it
someone kill me
I might pass out when I drive to my meeting today
only thing keeping me going is that I promised myself a milk shake.
This is far away from being a problem for me, but I just found out about the new GRE, and I am pissed that their solution is, like the SAT, making it a damn hour longer. It makes sense that they are trying to make the verbal easier by killing the analogies/antonyms and the quantitative harder by adding stuff, because the average for the quantitative is far too high for being out of 800, but argh, I can't focus and sit still for four hours at a time.
To clarify: I'm not going to be teaching high school.
As a professor I plan on saying "get your fucking laptops the hell out of my class."
good
luck with that
the professor that i'm teaching for has a rule that if 3 people are caught on facebook, nobody will get to use laptops for the rest of the term
the first day, eleven people were on facebook or msn
the second day, she gave everyone a second chance
this time, the guy in front of me tabbed back and forth between a pdf he wasn't reading and msn
no more laptops
Sure a tenured prof can make all the crazy rules she wants
I'm just speculating that by the time Callius is a full on prof with Tenure and a rockin beard, barring computers from classrooms is going to be next to impossible. Especially since so many universities are implementing paperless everything today.
But hey, reach for the stars kid, maybe there'll be a massive EMP rendering all the world's electronics unusable.
To clarify: I'm not going to be teaching high school.
As a professor I plan on saying "get your fucking laptops the hell out of my class."
good
luck with that
the professor that i'm teaching for has a rule that if 3 people are caught on facebook, nobody will get to use laptops for the rest of the term
the first day, eleven people were on facebook or msn
the second day, she gave everyone a second chance
this time, the guy in front of me tabbed back and forth between a pdf he wasn't reading and msn
no more laptops
Sure a tenured prof can make all the crazy rules she wants
I'm just speculating that by the time Callius is a full on prof with Tenure and a rockin beard, barring computers from classrooms is going to be next to impossible. Especially since so many universities are implementing paperless everything today.
But hey, reach for the stars kid, maybe there'll be a massive EMP rendering all the world's electronics unusable.
I, too, believe that paperless means putting stuff online and then everyone printing it out.
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Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
On the rare occasions there is a class big enough where this isn't possible, there is usually a card-swiping setup near the entrance. The professor will sit nearby and watch the monitor to make sure you aren't swiping somebody else as you come in.
My biggest issue is that it encourages people to show up, when I'd rather they didn't, and worse still, it was specifically stated that attendance =/= participation, so these same people are encouraged to talk. All the time.
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Yeah. Passively tracking who is actually here is one thing, but encouraging every 19 year old eager beaver to put forward their opinion on the myth of climate change or how religion has it all wrong, man is quite another.
and over break it became even fuller, and now he sports a handlebar mustache
his radiance is such that I cannot bear to look upon him
the same people who are running through warcraft dungeons during the lecture
I mean at least dude is listening
I post a lot during some classes.
I imagine they're quite nice when they aren't really big.
yeah exactly
We had the same thing go down in my Hist. o photo class
There's like 200 people in here! don't ask if anyone has a comment!
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
You givin 2nd year arts students too much credit
the questions are not question they're like
"I just wanna say that I disagree with taking pictures of dead bodies"
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
well then tell them this
Damnit
I can still change it. I will probably just get charged like $20
oh trust me
I go to a Bar Factory school
I'm well aware
a) read As I Lay Dying
b) affix myself to the front of a steamroller
so far i've just gotten to where addie dies and i am leaning towards b
the thing is most of the time if one dude is asking a question out loud, a good proportion of the class is also asking the same question in their head.
Also the opinions of the "shit heads" in any class are irrelevant. Like people who bitch about a bunch of projects being due in the same week... when we've had all semester to work on them. Fuck those people.
Meeting today at 3:30 with website people to give them all of our research and shit
This week has been so long
So tired, haven't been able to nap at all this week to catch up on sleep because I've had to be out meeting with people or working on project shit until like 5 or 6 at night, so if I took a nap I wouldn't be able to sleep that night and then my schedule would be messed up and I'd be more out of it
someone kill me
I might pass out when I drive to my meeting today
only thing keeping me going is that I promised myself a milk shake.
Though who schedules an exam for Saturday morning I mean really
Mixed feelings on this.
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
"Hey kid, you know those participation points that are mandated to be 20% of your grade by the school? Now a zero."
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
What the hell.
Young whippersnappers.
As a professor I plan on saying "get your fucking laptops the hell out of my class."
good
luck with that
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Your universities sound like academic prison.
the professor that i'm teaching for has a rule that if 3 people are caught on facebook, nobody will get to use laptops for the rest of the term
the first day, eleven people were on facebook or msn
the second day, she gave everyone a second chance
this time, the guy in front of me tabbed back and forth between a pdf he wasn't reading and msn
no more laptops
Sure a tenured prof can make all the crazy rules she wants
I'm just speculating that by the time Callius is a full on prof with Tenure and a rockin beard, barring computers from classrooms is going to be next to impossible. Especially since so many universities are implementing paperless everything today.
But hey, reach for the stars kid, maybe there'll be a massive EMP rendering all the world's electronics unusable.
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
if you need it medically, then go for it
but otherwise, fuck off with your kongregate
oh and this class is paperless, but the computers being banned isn't on her, it's on all the fucks who used facebook instead of listening
I, too, believe that paperless means putting stuff online and then everyone printing it out.
I think if you saw the number of laptops at Carleton you might go into some sort of catatonic state.
Classes literally look like this
but laptops
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.