I often bring my laptop to a "regular" class. Even with access to FireFox, FreeCiv and the like, which I do use, I still pay attention. (Using that same laptop to type notes keeps me form zoning out too far.)
Sometimes, I have classes in desktop computer labs. One is a statistics class doing a lot of work with Minitab, so that one makes sense. However, the professor recently discovered filtering/Internet-blocking software, which blows. Now I'm literally falling asleep during some of those lectures; I don't think that's entirely a coincidence. I'm more likely to stay awake at home because I can surf the Internet. Maybe the same principle is at work. (often too damn late at night, but that's another issue.)
I've had bad classes with PowerPoint, good classes with it, bad classes without it, and good classes without it. It's a bit different mix every quarter (1-1-1-2) (2-0-1-2) (0-3-0-1) (1-2-1-0) (1-1-0-2) (0-2-0-2) (0-1-0-2) Total 5-10-3-11
My statistics professor, incidentally one of the non-users, might like it that I'm thinking of a multifactor regression analysis and a chi-square versus-equal-proportions test here.:P
Yes, my professors have been known to use the textbook publisher's PowerPoints. However, even if they don't edit the file, they "edit" the way they present it - they will skip or gloss over content from the slides that they don't feel is necessary. So it saves them some grunt work in assembling PowerPoints, even if they know what to talk about.
The one professor this quarter who was a big PowerPoint user had other qualities to redeem his teaching style - real-world experience and unusual-but-still-valuable out-of-class assignments.
Even if the professor made the slide deck available, I still would like to take notes during the lecture itself rather than take notes as I'm going through the slides myself.
There's a review section on my university's website. It provides seful comments, but they haven't put the last few quarters' classes into the system. (That system also enables you to make sure that a class reviewer actually took the class they're reviewing)
Our in-class end-of-quarter evaluations tend to focus a bit much on simply filling in a bubble for a Likert scale - style question.
BTW, ratemyprofessors loses some respect with their "hot or not" rating component. One of my comments on the sci-fi poll further expresses that sentiment:
"I, too, like looking at attractive women, but in terms of a movie, sporting event, et cetera, I want to see that main event, and see it done well, not just more T&A."
(Not saying I haven't had classes with attractive profs or TAs, just saying that I'm not irrational enough to factor that into my decision making.)
I've been know to "multitask" during class in various ways - it's the same basic idea, doesn't have to be electronic
Back in my freshman year, I had a bad math professor (his lectures were kind of hard to understand; good thing it was easy material for me) and once took out a newspaper.(I had a laptop, but hadn't started bringing it to campus yet).
Him: Either put that away or leave. Me: Okay. (walks out)
I did like that bit of sticking it to him, and it didn't hurt that the early walkout helped me get to my next destination on time.
I can do something fun and still follow the class, but I can't do a separate piece of work at the same time...
I think that's simply a case of "PowerPoint" being used as a genericized trademark for "presentation software". Ah, maybe you do have a point - using Impress instead of PowerPoint for purposes of a placebo effect.
While I applaud you applauding the psychologist's apparent scientific rigor, I also like the Greg Barbe guy for making similarly positive points in common language.
Though I have a clear opinion on which side I agree with there, that's a great example of one thing that makes censorship such a mess: whose standards do you censor by? You're gonna get either mob rule or its opposite depending on how you make that call.
Knew for months it was closing down, finished the backup at ~ 11:30 PM Pacific Time on the 25th.
My page is still up, so presumably, they close it at the end of the 26th.
I admit I fell into the "under construction" trap as much as anyone, but I at least avoided the crappy graphics.
My thanks to the highschool IT guy who introduced me to doing this kind of thing, even though I didn't make a career out of it. Quickly graduated from Netscape Composer to simple handcoding of HTML. That was cool. (Was about six years ago, now.)
Even a basic overhaul of what I've got now would be quite the project, but I plan to move the same basic idea over to another free webhost
Sure, most of these countries have a lot of other, bigger, problems. But to totally ignore "small" problems because you're so focused on the "big" problems - as a general rule, that doesn't make sense. Heck, because they're "smaller", you might just be able to handle them, whereas you wouldn't be able to get *anything* done on the big problems due to to *their* size.
Maybe it assumes that some people register email only perfunctorily and only for using that email to keep track of social-networking stuff. Certainly some of you/.ers out there have different emails for different specific purposes, although maybe not for this specific "specific purpose."
Yeah, Mom will gladly set me up for a triple word score, and I'll gladly take it, and she looks confused & surprised. Scrabble games with Dad, on the other hand, are rather serious & intense, relatively speaking.
The song "Green Day"? I understand if the AOLers drove you to drugs...:P
Yeah, it's always nice to tell morons Good Riddance, and then hope that they proceed to move 2000 light years away. I understand if Eternal September was as painful as pulling teeth, that it turned you into a basket case. But take a long view - I say "Give me Novocaine and become desensitized". Welcome to Paradise!
1. Don't be afraid to go old (H.G. Wells _The Time Machine_, for instance, attempts to make some provocative claims about what happens to an increasingly technological society -- remarkable given when it was written).
Also in that line of thinking, Huxley's Brave New World. Pretty damn insightful about the dangers of a abusing genetic-engineering technology, especially for the 1930s
Go ahead and have some Mozzarella... Yes, I know how the Cheese Shop sketch goes... I mean, since the were so unique, they wouldn't just go ahead and have the same popular cheese that everyone else is having.:P
I'd certainly agree with the general consensus that these guys pushed some serious (or non-serious) stylistic boundaries; that's a risk that sometimes falls flat, but when it connects, it's gold.
I make an analogy to some of the great oldschool off-the-wall bands (cf. Floyd, Pink) about artistic daring that (mostly) connects.
Furthermore, we've had decades for (what little) chaff to be sorted out
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I often bring my laptop to a "regular" class.
Even with access to FireFox, FreeCiv and the like, which I do use, I still pay attention. (Using that same laptop to type notes keeps me form zoning out too far.)
Sometimes, I have classes in desktop computer labs. One is a statistics class doing a lot of work with Minitab, so that one makes sense. However, the professor recently discovered filtering/Internet-blocking software, which blows. Now I'm literally falling asleep during some of those lectures; I don't think that's entirely a coincidence.
I'm more likely to stay awake at home because I can surf the Internet. Maybe the same principle is at work. (often too damn late at night, but that's another issue.)
I've had bad classes with PowerPoint, good classes with it, bad classes without it, and good classes without it. It's a bit different mix every quarter
(1-1-1-2)
(2-0-1-2)
(0-3-0-1)
(1-2-1-0)
(1-1-0-2)
(0-2-0-2)
(0-1-0-2)
Total 5-10-3-11
My statistics professor, incidentally one of the non-users, might like it that I'm thinking of a multifactor regression analysis and a chi-square versus-equal-proportions test here. :P
Yes, my professors have been known to use the textbook publisher's PowerPoints. However, even if they don't edit the file, they "edit" the way they present it - they will skip or gloss over content from the slides that they don't feel is necessary. So it saves them some grunt work in assembling PowerPoints, even if they know what to talk about.
The one professor this quarter who was a big PowerPoint user had other qualities to redeem his teaching style - real-world experience and unusual-but-still-valuable out-of-class assignments.
Even if the professor made the slide deck available, I still would like to take notes during the lecture itself rather than take notes as I'm going through the slides myself.
There's a review section on my university's website.
It provides seful comments, but they haven't put the last few quarters' classes into the system.
(That system also enables you to make sure that a class reviewer actually took the class they're reviewing)
Our in-class end-of-quarter evaluations tend to focus a bit much on simply filling in a bubble for a Likert scale - style question.
BTW, ratemyprofessors loses some respect with their "hot or not" rating component.
One of my comments on the sci-fi poll further expresses that sentiment:
"I, too, like looking at attractive women, but in terms of a movie, sporting event, et cetera, I want to see that main event, and see it done well, not just more T&A."
(Not saying I haven't had classes with attractive profs or TAs, just saying that I'm not irrational enough to factor that into my decision making.)
He could have Googled for it before himself, and is re-Googling during class, even if it didn't look like he pre-screened.
Whether he went out of his way to select a good PowerPoint or was able to really work off the cuff, still sounds like a great professor.
I've been know to "multitask" during class in various ways - it's the same basic idea, doesn't have to be electronic
Back in my freshman year, I had a bad math professor (his lectures were kind of hard to understand; good thing it was easy material for me) and once took out a newspaper.(I had a laptop, but hadn't started bringing it to campus yet).
Him: Either put that away or leave.
Me: Okay.
(walks out)
I did like that bit of sticking it to him, and it didn't hurt that the early walkout helped me get to my next destination on time.
I can do something fun and still follow the class, but I can't do a separate piece of work at the same time...
I think that's simply a case of "PowerPoint" being used as a genericized trademark for "presentation software".
Ah, maybe you do have a point - using Impress instead of PowerPoint for purposes of a placebo effect.
Not so much the risk of a hack job (I'm a fan, but not a huge one), but the fact that I mentally rendered this as "iRobot".
Who knows? They changed from Apple Computer to Apple, could change again to US Robots and Mechanical Men
Wow, thanks for the Emperor Norton link.
That's really funny and interesting, plain and simple.
While I applaud you applauding the psychologist's apparent scientific rigor, I also like the Greg Barbe guy for making similarly positive points in common language.
Though I have a clear opinion on which side I agree with there, that's a great example of one thing that makes censorship such a mess: whose standards do you censor by? You're gonna get either mob rule or its opposite depending on how you make that call.
AdBlock Plus handles (handled?) Geocities' ads as well as it handles the crap adds on the rest of the Internet. :)
Knew for months it was closing down, finished the backup at ~ 11:30 PM Pacific Time on the 25th.
My page is still up, so presumably, they close it at the end of the 26th.
I admit I fell into the "under construction" trap as much as anyone, but I at least avoided the crappy graphics.
My thanks to the highschool IT guy who introduced me to doing this kind of thing, even though I didn't make a career out of it. Quickly graduated from Netscape Composer to simple handcoding of HTML. That was cool. (Was about six years ago, now.)
Even a basic overhaul of what I've got now would be quite the project, but I plan to move the same basic idea over to another free webhost
Paragraph 2. Outsourcing does work. I was a consultant for 7 years. Unions hated me because I perfumed better then their employees.
Sure, some people overdo it with the perfume and cologne, but that doesn't seem like a reason for hire/fire in and of itself. :P
Baseball bats? Amateur!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike
and bash.org. And UrbanDictionary. And Wikipedia. And Slashdot. And so on.
You'd get mod points if I had them
Sure, most of these countries have a lot of other, bigger, problems.
But to totally ignore "small" problems because you're so focused on the "big" problems - as a general rule, that doesn't make sense. Heck, because they're "smaller", you might just be able to handle them, whereas you wouldn't be able to get *anything* done on the big problems due to to *their* size.
Where's an "Informative and Useful" mod when you really need it? Thanks for pointing that out.
Maybe it assumes that some people register email only perfunctorily and only for using that email to keep track of social-networking stuff. /.ers out there have different emails for different specific purposes, although maybe not for this specific "specific purpose."
Certainly some of you
That site's easily as addictive as Wikipedia...or UrbanDictionary...or /. (walks away in shamed hypocrisy)
Yeah, Mom will gladly set me up for a triple word score, and I'll gladly take it, and she looks confused & surprised. Scrabble games with Dad, on the other hand, are rather serious & intense, relatively speaking.
42-hour Starcraft marathons while your PC is broken? There's an app for that!
The song "Green Day"? I understand if the AOLers drove you to drugs...:P
Yeah, it's always nice to tell morons Good Riddance, and then hope that they proceed to move 2000 light years away. I understand if Eternal September was as painful as pulling teeth, that it turned you into a basket case. But take a long view - I say "Give me Novocaine and become desensitized". Welcome to Paradise!
Sorry, couldn't resist. :P
I'm deluged by Mafia Wars updates, you insensitive clod...
Or, I was...Seriously, there's a reason for the "block this application" button.
1. Don't be afraid to go old (H.G. Wells _The Time Machine_, for instance, attempts to make some provocative claims about what happens to an increasingly technological society -- remarkable given when it was written).
Also in that line of thinking, Huxley's Brave New World. Pretty damn insightful about the dangers of a abusing genetic-engineering technology, especially for the 1930s
Go ahead and have some Mozzarella... :P
Yes, I know how the Cheese Shop sketch goes...
I mean, since the were so unique, they wouldn't just go ahead and have the same popular cheese that everyone else is having.
I'd certainly agree with the general consensus that these guys pushed some serious (or non-serious) stylistic boundaries; that's a risk that sometimes falls flat, but when it connects, it's gold.
I make an analogy to some of the great oldschool off-the-wall bands (cf. Floyd, Pink) about artistic daring that (mostly) connects.
Furthermore, we've had decades for (what little) chaff to be sorted out