Unprofessional teachers
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evila_elfOkay, I've mentioned before that I am taking college classes online. Normally the teachers are great and I've had a few that I loved so much I wrote a goodbye note to them on the last day of class.
But one of the ones I have this semester is annoying me. We have these discussion posts every week where we have to answer a question/talk about it, then post two responses to other students. The teacher sometimes asks questions to get people talking. But she has this habit of doing the triple question marks and random all cap words to add emphasis.
One of her e-mails to the class about discussion posts:
***As a reminder if I reply to your weekly discussion post YOU ARE EXPECTED TO REPLY BACK BEFORE SATURDAY NOON of the corresponding week!
(This is in addition to replying to another student's post. This DOES NOT REPLACE replying to another student's !!!) ***
And she was all annoyed that people weren't following instructions for the last assignment, which said to list references, when she really meant that they needed to be in APA format (every other class I have taken always specifies for them to be in that format). She was nice enough to let people redo things to get some points back, but I e-mailed to nicely point out the reason people probably got confused and she got all defensive. *headwall*
Sorry, feeling bitchy and needed to rant.
But one of the ones I have this semester is annoying me. We have these discussion posts every week where we have to answer a question/talk about it, then post two responses to other students. The teacher sometimes asks questions to get people talking. But she has this habit of doing the triple question marks and random all cap words to add emphasis.
One of her e-mails to the class about discussion posts:
***As a reminder if I reply to your weekly discussion post YOU ARE EXPECTED TO REPLY BACK BEFORE SATURDAY NOON of the corresponding week!
(This is in addition to replying to another student's post. This DOES NOT REPLACE replying to another student's !!!) ***
And she was all annoyed that people weren't following instructions for the last assignment, which said to list references, when she really meant that they needed to be in APA format (every other class I have taken always specifies for them to be in that format). She was nice enough to let people redo things to get some points back, but I e-mailed to nicely point out the reason people probably got confused and she got all defensive. *headwall*
Sorry, feeling bitchy and needed to rant.
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Date: 2010-05-28 02:11 pm (UTC)I gotta be one of those TA's soon. Bah. Hope my students don't get mad. :-/
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Date: 2010-05-28 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-28 05:57 pm (UTC)