What did you teach today? This semester I am teaching:
Spanish 2 (30 students)
Spanish 3 (50 students)
Portuguese Reading and Composition: for seniors in Linguistics, and graduate students preparing for the reading examination (5 students)
Latin American Film: one of those hybrid senior/graduate courses, a highly diverse group (15 students).
I am also Secretary of Academic Senate, which is a very large job, and I am applying for $200,000 in external funding, which is another very large job. People who think that because I say research and writing are fun and interesting I do not have enough solidarity with other academic workers, can kiss my fucking ass.
In any case, I am quite pleased with my grading innovation for Spanish 2 and 3. These courses have an e-workbook which has excellent exercises, but which is most onerous to grade. You can put it on autograde and not assign the communicative exercises (which have to have individual feedback). That is what the instructors do. I have put it on autograde, but I have not eliminated the communicative exercises.
Det synes jeg ikke, at man kan være bekendt at gøre, which is to say, I do not think one can decently do that. I also actually want to have to look at the e-workbook, because I want to know what the homework actually looks like. If I don’t look, I will forget; knowledge is power and it is also competence. However, I cannot realistically comment on every exercise for every student.
So, I have put up text files in Moodle with sample answers and common errors, and I am about to put up wikis upon which students can discuss the exercises among themselves and I can come in and interject things.
I am telling you, I am brilliant and I know how to work. If you are carrying the monkey that says no se puede, I cannot carry you.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 