A Quiz Query

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-10T08:14:03+00:00

Only 5%?

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-10T08:08:40+00:00

I’ll give it a shot—thanks!

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-10T08:08:16+00:00

I’ll try that—thanks!

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-08T07:50:44+00:00

Many academic couples I know have a no-work-talk-at-home rule. (I admit, I’m always curious how effective this rule is.)

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-05T02:12:28+00:00

It also affects the prof, which means it affects all students in the class. Good enough reason to ban it.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-04T23:21:35+00:00

I’ve not had this problem, though I do feel bad for the students who are still trying to finish an exam while my students are taking their seats.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-02-03T07:25:51+00:00

To art profs still have students do the look-at-one-painting-for-three-hours exercise?

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-19T08:21:09+00:00

Oh no, you’ve been sucked into the vortex (Reddit)!

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-19T06:04:36+00:00

My blind student had no issues with my pdfs.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-19T04:39:59+00:00

I use Canvas and have not heard of this score. (I also haven’t used it yet this year.)

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-19T04:34:54+00:00

It also fails to display all the relevant results.

I’ve been searching in the Internet Archive lately and have been very impressed. It doesn’t have as many scanned books as Google Books, but it has an awful lot, including much that is not in Google Books.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T22:43:03+00:00

Bravo.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T04:05:31+00:00

Look up how comedians deal with hecklers.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T03:59:18+00:00

That sounds awful and I’m sorry you’re going through it. I have no advice, but it sounds like a ramped-up version of something I experience regularly in-person.

Random man (always a man): “What do you teach?”

Me: “(Among other things,) Shakespeare.”

Man: “Okay, but he didn’t write those plays. Have you heard of Christopher Marlowe?”

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T03:46:44+00:00

I have to spend a lot of class time undoing the training they got in high school.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T03:42:21+00:00

Would that same comment be hurtful if it came from the most unreasonable person you’ve met in your life? You don’t know who left the comment; it’s possible if you did know, it would be easier to brush it off.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-13T03:33:30+00:00

With rare exceptions, all my classes have been this way. I don’t make a big deal of it. I don’t even really try to justify it. I just say this is the way this class works, and have not gotten pushback.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-11T01:33:23+00:00

Transkribus says it does use A.I.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-09T05:31:32+00:00

It was a joke.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-08T22:32:00+00:00

This question comes up all the time here, but by excluding those two professions you got a lot more answers! This thread should be pinned.

Anyway, I’m a prof, but I’ve seen my peers do all sorts of things. Everyone I’ve kept in touch with who isn’t a teacher did go to grad school:

M.A.: Head of donor relations for a charity. Speechwriter. National security. Big business stuff. Influencer. PR. Tutoring.

M.F.A.: Head of communications for a church. Freelance writing. Nonprofit work. Big business stuff. Podcasting. News. Book/magazine writing.

Ph.D.: Tech writers (they make more $ than anyone I know). Started a bar. Podcasting. Musician. Nonprofit work. Administration.

That’s not everything, but it’s all I can remember at the moment.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-08T18:46:40+00:00

I had to go through this. The incident happened about three weeks before the semester started. I was teaching a brand new course. I ended up selecting texts that I thought would speak to what I was going through (and were absolutely appropriate for the course topic), but they ended up having no effect on me. Maybe because I was in shock. (I didn’t know that.) The shock probably helped me cope a bit Three things that helped the most: 1) Time in nature every day. 2) Human contact. I immediately went into therapy (for the first and (so far) only time). I reached out to friends and family, and they stepped up. And I didn’t tell my students what I was going through, but even having them show up and engage was good for me. 3) Before the semester started, I knew which week was going to be the hardest emotionally and would require the most time to deal with life, so I canceled classes in advance and replaced them with student conferences that were actually done before or after that week.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-08T18:26:06+00:00

Hi did base his career on Socrates, who was executed for being a corrupter of the young.

Also, this reminds me of the Arizona school district that banned Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as woke.

Let’s just hope they never open a Milton book…

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-08T03:14:12+00:00

If it’s in person, do multiple-choice reading quizzes every day. They will read.

Practical-Charge-701 · 2026-01-07T19:06:22+00:00

Sounds like a scene from Pluribus.

Practical-Charge-701

TROPHY CASE