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olivia_suttonI woke up to about an inch of snow, again -- but it was still snowing hard. By the time I left for work at 12:09pm, there was a winter weather advisory -- we're supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow today. It was snowing during my drive, tho' it had let up alot by the time I got to work (which is south of town, so that probably had something to do with it).
I had to get my grades in today by 6pm, so I was a wreck -- trying to get everything done. All but one of my networking students passed (whoo -hoo) which is good, considering three were failing going into the final exam and project. My networking students also did fairly well on the final.
The XP class, OTOH, was a mess. Two students didn't even show up for the final. (One of them went from a B to failing because she didn't show up, didn't call, didn't email and didn't contact me, my chair, or the school at all). The other one was a pertutual screw-up so that was no surprise. For that class, they have to do a individual project which they are given as a practical final exam -- it's basically a list of things to do (such as set a screensaver with password protect), which I then grade -- there's a point scale for each item. Of course, I have to score EACH person, on EACH item as they do it. And I was running around trying to score the exams of 26 students all *screaming* at me for attention -- and I'm doing the best I can but no one's being patient. It was AWFUL! Finally, the chair (my boss) who's really sweet comes in --- and by this point I've taken off my blazer and I'm just in my shirtsleeves and skirt (it was hot as *eck in the lab) and I'm like "I NEED a TA!" (a TA is a teaching asst) He's like -- "You need help?" And I kinda' looked at him. Anyway, he did help me out which was great and eventually I got all the projects graded.
I also had to listen to all the students complain, and complain loudly about the final -- with colorful vocabulary. I can't completely blame them 'cause it is a difficult final. (The final is part of the Microsoft Curriculm, so it's a standardised test -- as opposed to my quizzes which I write myself based on the homework). BUT -- on the other hand, I tell the students about the final being hard all the way thru' class, I offered to do more reviewing, and most nights I ended the class with some of the test bank questions (tho' most of the students had left by then -- but techincally they are to stay until class is dismissed).
It's the class from heck --- at least I have a term off from teaching it.
And my networking class was great -- the students were great, and I even got a lot of complements from one of them. It was cool!
Oh, before I forget -- answers to the music meme will be posted next weekend. I want to give folks a week to think about it.
Here's the weather from NOAA. It's 35 F (2 C) Snowing, with fog and mist. Wind chill is 27 F (- 3 C) and humidity is 96%. Oh joy.
--Olivia
I had to get my grades in today by 6pm, so I was a wreck -- trying to get everything done. All but one of my networking students passed (whoo -hoo) which is good, considering three were failing going into the final exam and project. My networking students also did fairly well on the final.
The XP class, OTOH, was a mess. Two students didn't even show up for the final. (One of them went from a B to failing because she didn't show up, didn't call, didn't email and didn't contact me, my chair, or the school at all). The other one was a pertutual screw-up so that was no surprise. For that class, they have to do a individual project which they are given as a practical final exam -- it's basically a list of things to do (such as set a screensaver with password protect), which I then grade -- there's a point scale for each item. Of course, I have to score EACH person, on EACH item as they do it. And I was running around trying to score the exams of 26 students all *screaming* at me for attention -- and I'm doing the best I can but no one's being patient. It was AWFUL! Finally, the chair (my boss) who's really sweet comes in --- and by this point I've taken off my blazer and I'm just in my shirtsleeves and skirt (it was hot as *eck in the lab) and I'm like "I NEED a TA!" (a TA is a teaching asst) He's like -- "You need help?" And I kinda' looked at him. Anyway, he did help me out which was great and eventually I got all the projects graded.
I also had to listen to all the students complain, and complain loudly about the final -- with colorful vocabulary. I can't completely blame them 'cause it is a difficult final. (The final is part of the Microsoft Curriculm, so it's a standardised test -- as opposed to my quizzes which I write myself based on the homework). BUT -- on the other hand, I tell the students about the final being hard all the way thru' class, I offered to do more reviewing, and most nights I ended the class with some of the test bank questions (tho' most of the students had left by then -- but techincally they are to stay until class is dismissed).
It's the class from heck --- at least I have a term off from teaching it.
And my networking class was great -- the students were great, and I even got a lot of complements from one of them. It was cool!
Oh, before I forget -- answers to the music meme will be posted next weekend. I want to give folks a week to think about it.
Here's the weather from NOAA. It's 35 F (2 C) Snowing, with fog and mist. Wind chill is 27 F (- 3 C) and humidity is 96%. Oh joy.
--Olivia
