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teaching: April 2005 Archives
Uh oh. This could be a real problem. Hope it comes up soon. Here's the post I wanted to make in the "Stuck in a Rut" thread:
Well. For all the angst I went through the dress was a bit of a let down. My students just took it as a performance, as in not real, or otherwise downplayed it. Or so the discussion went. Several people admitted to a bit of a jolt when they first saw me, a couple of students blurted something out immediately. :-) Nothing bad. :-)
Several very important things happened in the small group comm class on Tuesday.
Meg and Nikki argued vigorously with me (!) about various issues with the blog (one of the group "issues" identified by the class). Did someone say "stepping up?"
Drew reported for the group he was involved with, which had four miscellaneous issues to address. The first one was respect, or rather, a general lack of respect within the class. I wanted more specifics - what constitutes a "lack" of "respect" - how does one know that's what is going on? What are the clues?
Wow. :-)
My students (gotta love the possessive) are doing it. A bunch of them seemed down on their energy today, but then I was kinda down with my own too.
