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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Hey where have I been?

Well the topic for today is instant messaging. Personally I find it intrusive and a bit of a pain. I'm not a very strong keyboardist, and I am usually busy at something when someone I'm not really interested in chatting with interrupts the usually busy at something with some la-te-da blah blah. Do I sound anti-social?. As for using it in the classroom, well it seems to me that you had better have a group of highly motivated and focused students in your class. I just can't see a bunch of teen types not taking advantage of the opportunity to la-te-da blah blah on class time. As a rule adolescents don't have the risk blocking tools necessary to keep them from getting involved in volatile situations such as info sharing, stranger affiliating, pornography pandering, etc. Sorry, just don't like it. When I was IMing with a buddy in Missouri a young girl (I could tell) decided to IM me. I didn't know her and was somewhat distressed at this young princess being able to access me without my prior approval. For her part I could have been some psychotic lunatic with evil intent, very happy to happen upon her young and oh so innocent self. Lucky for her I'm just mean and didn't want anything to do with her let alone chat the la-te-da blah blah. It's all just too too ugly.
In class today the students had a quiz, just a quiz. A 10 point something or other. I have read the book they were being quizzed on, and I didn't do as well as some of the students. True /false can be so misleading. Anyway one of the girls didn't do so well either, and she took it real hard. She cried. I think I need to tell her I had a tough time, but I wasn't getting 10 points. Now I want to cry too, but the mean in me won't permit it.
What to do, what to do?
Well I need sustenance before class so I don't pass out from the stress. Meanie out.

1 Comments:

At 9:44 AM, Blogger Norma said...

I have to say that I enjoy your posts because your so honest. I feel the same way with my kids. I had to do their homework pack on grammar and was wrong on a few occasions and they were excited to point it out. I was happy for the one that could point it out because it meant he understood it because he explained it to me.

 

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