Finals are finally done, and this semester, the last semester of my life, is coming to an end. I passed all my classes this semester, with the lowest mark being an 80, so I am quite happy with my performance. What will become of this edublog when I am no longer required by ECMP 455 to keep updating it?
It would be hard for me to continuously update it when I feel like the positive things being discussed on it are not seen by enough people to make it worthwhile. Yet, it will never get that audience unless I continuously put worthwhile things on it. Chicken or the egg? Maybe once business education has a more predominate face in the education world, this blog might pertain to more people. Yet, these issues pertain to everyone, as one French major made some connections to it a while back.
Technology has helped me a lot this semester, as well as in my internship. Just recently, I used technology to win an online tournament where first prize was $4000 cash, and a $10,000 entry into the most prestigious poker event in the world, the World Series of Poker Main event, $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em. July 8th, I play, and I might be on TV! I can thank technology for that, or I can thank my three hard years of poker learning and playing for that. Either way, I am living in a dream world at the moment. Also, electronic posting of final grades. I don’t know how long this has been going on for, but I shudder to think what life was like before it was this easy. Did you have to wait for a letter? Or *shudder* drive down to the University? Either way, this way saves time, effort, money, and stress, waiting for those final grades.
Also, I finally procured the resources with which I can create my Moodle course. It will be Accounting 10, but it is quite difficult to work with the test feature, and create it to be exactly how you want it to be. I’m working on it, though, and should be done in the coming week.
WORLD SERIES OF POKER – I don’t believe it.
Also, SGI sells engines for $1200 for the car that I need to replace the motor in. Various engines of the same style sell on eBay for $200-$400. Even if I buy one and it is junk, I save myself a few hundred. And if the first one is good, BONUS, I save a lot, and get a good car for cheap. It is finally the end of plaid-car.
In the future, I want to professionally blog, but I also want an audience. Perhaps once parents of my future students want to know what sort of things are going on in some of their teachers’ heads they will tune into my blog, thus making it more worthwhile. I don’t mind blogging personally, either, as a diary-like thing, or just as a way of keeping anyone who cares interested in my day-to-day life. Although, as it turns out, not too many people are really interested. Maybe I need to start teaching and make more teacher friends?
That is all for now. A few more posts to follow, along with a completed Moodle course soon.
Dan
4 responses so far ↓
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Amanda
// Apr 25, 2007 at 2:43 am
You used to phone into an automated system to get your grades.
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mrbenesh
// Apr 25, 2007 at 2:59 am
Wow. How annoying would that be? Phone lines busy, having to go through all that dialing and waiting effort. I check for grades about 4 times a day when I’m waiting, and I know others who do it up to 20. TGFI (Thank Goodness For Internet).
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Amanda
// Apr 26, 2007 at 12:52 am
Still, the phone system was many times more efficient than any of your… hypothesi? (What on earth is the plural of that word?)
Although I only this semester discovered that profs seem very willing to give you your marks as soon as they have them, rather than waiting for the to go through the dean and be put online. Plus, if you get to them before they’ve been submitted, it’s much easier to have something adjusted if you feel you so deserve it.
But that involves going to the university, which makes you shudder, Dan.
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Cyril
// May 13, 2007 at 8:18 am
in the middle ages – when I went to high school and University – we in fact did have to wait for a letter. We wrote provincial exams in high school so the teachers didn’t even know our grades – we would get ther letters late in July or early August – it was a very tense time.
At university we had the same thing. I am sure the profs knew the grades but in those days calling and asking for the grades was just not done. We also never called our profs by their first names and were generally reluctant to engage the profs with anything beyond a question in class.
Things are different now – for the better I think
Cyril
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