Miss Rambo, our mean and evil TA, is upset that several students forgot to include the name of the student they are responding to. However, I feel that this is just a minor concern. I am glad students met the 100-word minimum -- this helps to ensure depth to the responses.
I hope students are applying critical thinking and analysis to the discussion question contributions. It's easy to copy and paste info, but graduate school is all about higher order thinking. The current events postings are really on target! Seems like there are a lot of interest in a variety of areas. Miss Rambo reminds us to check if your article is already posted before you post yours. Students posted the article on microchips THREE TIMES!
As for the blogs, it would be great to add a little more pizzazz with the addition of images, relevant links and (yes) even humor!
Looks like a terrific semester coming up!!!!
3 comments:
Les,
You predict stimulation. Stimulation does even begin to describe it and it is only week 2. Some of the mini-diary entries are just flat-out amazing. Some of the posts are well past 10 years from now from implementation, not due to technology, but due to humans themselves not going for it. But many of them, the the technology is here and now. As I read the posts, I see that some of them are not too far from implementation. It is possible that someday that there will be no need for the evil TA. As these text editors get "smarter", the submit button will not light up until the 100 word limit is reached. Spelling is already there. The proper use of the word may take awhile. People with a great command of the English language, still do not know when to there, their or they're. Even when you "fat finger" words, such as "form" and "from." I get those words mixed up all the time. I know what word I am wanting to use, but sometimes I type too fast and one letter gets swapped around. That being said, I am not sure if technology should go that far for proper writing. We must use our brain for something. If we start turning everything over to computers. what will become of the human race?
Ciao,
Darryl
PS Naples, Italy is a big city not unlike any other big city in the United States. (Crime, snotty people, pollution and trash.)
Yes, Darryl,
The mini-diaries are interesting but frankly a lot of them are based on "current" emerging technologies. Even you smart submit button is do-able using a simple Perl script. Or the driverless cars has been in the works for years at the DOT as part of its intelligent vehicle program. I really think that we all can be much more creative.
After all, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Les
I see your point about Naples. But it doesn't have the open space like Rome and the people weren't quite as friendly as in Siena. Frankly, I did have a bad personal experience with panhandlers at the airport so that's the reason for my bias. I'm sure that there are some good things about the city.
Les
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