mrschili
December 30, 2007 at 11:06 am
It’s a class that meets once a week – on Monday mornings – for two hours. The rest of the credit hours are done “online,” whatever the instructor cares to make that mean.
In the past, I’ve just given them homework assignments that have to be submitted to me via the internet and called that the online portion of the class. I’m insanely dissatisfied with that, though, as I know that most of the students did insufficient work to make the online portion any kind of valuable.
What I really want is to make the kids learn half the class material on their own – a long shot, given that most of them, in my experience, aren’t exactly self-starters. I’m trying to figure out a way that I can direct them to websites and activities that will teach them the concepts that I WOULD be giving them if we met Monday/Wednesday – making them do the “Wednesday” part of the class on their own. I’ve just got to decide HOW I’m going to do that and WHERE to send them online to get the material – oh, and what to have them do to demonstrate that they’ve actually DONE it…
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mrschili
December 4, 2007 at 6:25 am
Seester, there’s nothing wrong with you at all, tragically or otherwise. Sometimes, stories just don’t work for us, despite their being favorites of seemingly everyone else. There are a few stories I feel that way about, too. Tell me, though – is that why you want to go with a new book for the DSBC? Hmmmmm?
Falcon, it’s been literally decades since I’ve seen the Mr. Magoo version; I’m not sure I’ve ever seen Rich Little. That you have them on VHS doesn’t help me, though; the lightning strike we had a few summers back took out our VCR, and we never replaced it….
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