Here's a new one for those of us trying to incorporate
technology into the classroom--you can all learn from my
red face!
I gave a test in cognitive this week that was a really stinkeroo--
11/36 students got a D or F and only 1 got an A-, with lots and
lots more Cs than Bs. Very disappointing for me and the students :-(
Well, I decided I would defuse the giving back of the exams by
sending an email and I started it out in the Subject line with
"What's that awful smell around here?"
And the first line of message text read:
"Must be those exams I just graded"
And from there went on to talk more seriously about other issues
in terms of what's going on and what do we want to do now--(class
voted to take a make-up exam....whole other issue)
Wouldn't you know it.
One student in our class has been having, shall we say, a slight
indigestion problem, on rather a consistent basis.
And, of course, one student, who thought she was replying to me
personally sent the reply to the whole class with the subject
as it was listed and the first line of her text,
"It must be ________"
GEEEEZ I wanted to dig a hole in my technoworld and bury myself in it!
Guess I will have to be MUCH more careful about diffusing things with
humor, when the humor can be misapplied--I do admit I was very tired
and disconcerted when I wrote that subject heading....
annette
Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of San Diego Voice: (619) 260-4006
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
"Education is one of the few things a person
is willing to pay for and not get."
-- W. L. Bryan
