You're right - clickers are evil and students should raise their hands. Same with voting - lets do away with ballots and machines, and we'll just expect people to stand up for their choices. Everybody who votes for Bush, raise your hands, and keep them up until we come around to your home and count you....
Seriously, while all technology is clunky the first semester it's used, after that the bugs get worked out. A quick and efficient survey to gauge how much everyone is understanding could be done on paper, handed to a TA to grade, and then brought to the next class, or one question put on a note card everyone writes on and the professor discusses next class (I do both of these), but a computer system and clickers that would do that for me immediately would be great. My classes typically are no more than 18 students and you have to discuss and ask questions. In a larger lecture hall such as an undergrad class it would be better.
While someone suggested students vote with their feet, fewer students pay for college themselves.... Parents could vote with their checkbooks of course, but reputation of the school's degree means more than the average number of Psych101 students in the room in Freshman Fall classes.
While all of that server stuff sounds interesting.... Set up the catch all email account.
Earthlink is my ISP and hosts my domain name. Thus, I have an earthlink email address. ALL email sent to my domain name goes to that Earthlink account. So, myname at mydomain, somebodyelsesname at mydomain... all go there.
1) Since I use the domain name as my email address, Outlook filters and saves myname at mydomain. However, ANY email to the Earthlink address is spam, since I have NEVER used that address, and so Outlook drops all of those in the delete bin. Any email to namemy at mydomain, yourname at mydomain.... are likewise spammers trying to figure out valid email addresses and are also spam. They go in the delete bin too. These two filter rules are the most effective spam rules I have in Outlook.
2) The exception to this is that Earthlink refuses to send me email at my domain, and so a third filter in Outlook saves emailed bills from Earthlink. Domain name renewal stuff, for example, I changed to reflect the myname at mydomain address.
3) When I go to a site that I don't want spam from, but I have to sign up for, I can enter the sitename at mydomain. Like gamerworld at mydomain. If I am expecting email from them (like a new password) I watch the delete bin for it. Otherwise, I don't worry about it. It's also a simple way to see if those promises of "we won't mail you anything, honest" are kept. Or to a tech forum. Sign up as techforum at mydomain, post your problem, watch the delete bin for a few days (or add the techforum at mydomain to your whitelist), post replies to your replies until you fix the problem, and then ignore that address (or remove techforum at mydomain from your whitelist).
I think everyone should get their own domain and filter email like this.... But it probably wouldn't work if EVERYONE did it....
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You're right - clickers are evil and students should raise their hands. Same with voting - lets do away with ballots and machines, and we'll just expect people to stand up for their choices. Everybody who votes for Bush, raise your hands, and keep them up until we come around to your home and count you....
Seriously, while all technology is clunky the first semester it's used, after that the bugs get worked out. A quick and efficient survey to gauge how much everyone is understanding could be done on paper, handed to a TA to grade, and then brought to the next class, or one question put on a note card everyone writes on and the professor discusses next class (I do both of these), but a computer system and clickers that would do that for me immediately would be great. My classes typically are no more than 18 students and you have to discuss and ask questions. In a larger lecture hall such as an undergrad class it would be better.
While someone suggested students vote with their feet, fewer students pay for college themselves.... Parents could vote with their checkbooks of course, but reputation of the school's degree means more than the average number of Psych101 students in the room in Freshman Fall classes.
Just my $2 Richard Niolon, Ph.D.
While all of that server stuff sounds interesting.... Set up the catch all email account.
Earthlink is my ISP and hosts my domain name. Thus, I have an earthlink email address. ALL email sent to my domain name goes to that Earthlink account. So, myname at mydomain, somebodyelsesname at mydomain... all go there.
1) Since I use the domain name as my email address, Outlook filters and saves myname at mydomain. However, ANY email to the Earthlink address is spam, since I have NEVER used that address, and so Outlook drops all of those in the delete bin. Any email to namemy at mydomain, yourname at mydomain.... are likewise spammers trying to figure out valid email addresses and are also spam. They go in the delete bin too. These two filter rules are the most effective spam rules I have in Outlook.
2) The exception to this is that Earthlink refuses to send me email at my domain, and so a third filter in Outlook saves emailed bills from Earthlink. Domain name renewal stuff, for example, I changed to reflect the myname at mydomain address.
3) When I go to a site that I don't want spam from, but I have to sign up for, I can enter the sitename at mydomain. Like gamerworld at mydomain. If I am expecting email from them (like a new password) I watch the delete bin for it. Otherwise, I don't worry about it. It's also a simple way to see if those promises of "we won't mail you anything, honest" are kept. Or to a tech forum. Sign up as techforum at mydomain, post your problem, watch the delete bin for a few days (or add the techforum at mydomain to your whitelist), post replies to your replies until you fix the problem, and then ignore that address (or remove techforum at mydomain from your whitelist).
I think everyone should get their own domain and filter email like this.... But it probably wouldn't work if EVERYONE did it....
Richard