Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Friday, May 9, 2008
Back
Wow. I got pretty far behind in my grading and everything else. This administrative adjunct job I do has things popping up all the time. Like a faculty member whose time in class was being wasted because she kept having to track down a special chair necessary for a student with a disability. Others kept moving the chair. So I felt it was my job to send out an email to everyone who works in the five classroom building where she has a class and let them know of the problem. I did that by checking between our online list of courses and our Webviewer overview of which classes are offered in the building. Used to be I could just go to the secretaries office and she could give me the bird's eye lowdown. But now it's all online and I can track down the info myself. That's progress -- always moving from people to the machines. And then the machines think of new work for us to do. And don't get me started on Banner.
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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