I know I tell everyone that I'm over being worried about whether or not students attend but sometimes it does impact my self esteem when only half my interpersonal communication class shows up on any one evening. Is it worse than it used to be? Us old profs always think so but maybe not. And spring time, the only ring a ding time, who wants to be in a classroom without (or with) windows?
Ah, but the public speaking class -- they were well before time (it was speech sign up day). I've enjoyed that class. Some interesting and enthusiastic characters. I also had a student in that class who cheated on an outline -- turned in a sample outline from a school in Kentucky. Easy enough to track down. What tipped me off? The language use and the scrawl of name at the top of a carefully typed page. Mostly, though, the use of the name John Wayne. How many of my students know who the heck John Wayne was, pilgrim?
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Cheating Exercise
This morning my T Th class did their "main point" presentations and most of them focused on "cheating in school".
Just to clarify, the "main point" speaking activity is a partial speech assignment. I have them create a single main point and find statistics and a story to support it. They choose one of four main points from a speech about cheating. I started using this as a speaking assignment when I had to start generating data about student learning outcomes for our accreditation. So I had to get all rubricized and quantitative.
Anyway, I love this assignment because it helps them work with research AND visual aids and trains them to give the source of their research. ALSO, because of the topic they focus on, it gets them thinking about the ethics of the American people...which, statistically, are pretty questionable. Most interesting statistic came from the 2001 McCabe, Trevino, Butterfield study on Cheating in Institutions http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/plagiarism/docs/McCabe_et_al.pdf
This assignment also gives them another opportunity to speak and this morning they seemed less nervous and lots more energetic.
I like this class.
Just to clarify, the "main point" speaking activity is a partial speech assignment. I have them create a single main point and find statistics and a story to support it. They choose one of four main points from a speech about cheating. I started using this as a speaking assignment when I had to start generating data about student learning outcomes for our accreditation. So I had to get all rubricized and quantitative.
Anyway, I love this assignment because it helps them work with research AND visual aids and trains them to give the source of their research. ALSO, because of the topic they focus on, it gets them thinking about the ethics of the American people...which, statistically, are pretty questionable. Most interesting statistic came from the 2001 McCabe, Trevino, Butterfield study on Cheating in Institutions http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/plagiarism/docs/McCabe_et_al.pdf
This assignment also gives them another opportunity to speak and this morning they seemed less nervous and lots more energetic.
I like this class.
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