Before Christmas I told my 10 *Master's* students to bring printouts of 5 pages from their thesis and a copy of their bibliography for a few rounds of discussion in our seminar. They were to bring 3 colored markers with them. And a pen.
After New Year's I sent an email to all detailing what they were to bring with them this morning.
How many needed to use my copy card to print something out this morning? 3
How many needed to use the markers I schlepped with me? 4
We haven't started the round with the pens, I have 6 with me, just in case.
Should I have maybe made a TikTok video of me dancing around a printer with a necklace of pens and markers, or how do I get students to bring the correct materials to class with them? I've only been teaching for 30 years and I am stumped.
@WiseWoman @kim_harding We used to include the sentence "All applications to include a handwritten covering letter" in our employment advertising. Usually 50% of applications had a word processed printed letter. And they wondered why they were never called for an interview.
@tinfoiling @WiseWoman @kim_harding why is the letter being handwritten so important? Are you employing stenographers?
