Monthly Archives: March 2005
The plagiarist in her natural habitat
Just because you read it on the web does not make it true. However, I found this to be an amusing observation of a paper sale “in the wild”: A Week of Kindness Blog: Laura K. Krishna is a Plagiarist. (Via Prof B..)
End of Semester
Chris Lott has a post seeking to end the end-of-semester community destruction:
Top-down LMS like Blackboard are exactly the wrong answer because the social tools (I’m being generous with the plural here) are pathetic, locked down, and not created to go beyond the instance of a single semester or course.
One of the nice things about [...]
ZoomInfo Resumes
ZoomInfo is a search engine that provides “people information summarized.” It seems to be a hybrid of search engine and resume. Interesting, given the frequency with which people now use Google to populate their Farley Files.
How do they do with me? Well, the first hit is pretty good, naming me as an Assistant Professor [...]
Welcome to the future!
I taught a short-course in prediction a few summers ago. I wish we could have all contributed to the new Wikicity wiki on future s. Maybe at some point in the… um… future.
I could use $2
The NY Daily News (bastion of journalism) is reporting that a Bronx middle-school teacher either paid $2 or coerced (not really clear) a former classmate to take the teachers’ certification exam. The teacher had flunked several times, and his plan failed because his fill-in (who has Asperger’s syndrome) did too well on the exam, and [...]
Why I hate multiple choices
I’ve just (finally) finished writing the third exam for the cyberporn class. I hate writing and giving multiple-choice exams. (Ironically, I don’t mind taking them, but I don’t really get much opportunity to do that.) Here are some of the reasons:
They test superficial knowledge.
You can get them to probe deeper knowledge and comparisons, but such [...]
Wipeout!