This series of kid-created videos detail methods for cheating in school (via LawGeek). I have a feeling that videos related to the theme “how to be a good student” or “study skills” are not nearly as popular on Youtube.
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Rules for Teachers
Here are some rules for teachers from the beginning of the 20th century.
It’s interesting to see how clearly the social expectations for women were laid out in the form of explicit rules. Thankfully, times have changed, although we always have more work to do. It would be interesting to pose rules like this with that of our contemporary schools, rules that are not always made so apparent.
See also.
Time Stops At Grand Central
Fun, well organized event sponsored by ImprovEverywhere.com
Beloit College Mindset List for Class of 2011
I’ve always found this annual list useful when attempting to relate and better understand my students.
Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber have always been dead.
Check out Beloit College’s Mindset List for the Class of 2011.
Possible Suspension for Student Who Created Proxy Site
This is an interesting story that brings up important questions around school jurisdiction on student activities and on the rights and responsibilities of students. This American student writes that he is facing possible suspension from his school for creating a web proxy service (as part of his job/business) that was used by other students at his school to get around school network restrictions. He is allegedly accused of “violating (his) rights as a student, and intentionally attempting to disturb the learning environment of students in (his) school.”
Worst part is that now I’m tagged as being a ‘computer hacker’ and a ‘potential threat’ to the school system. A mass email was sent out from the administrator who accused me of this to all the teachers, administrators, librarians, etc in the entire school, which basically says I’m a criminal and I need to be watched when getting within a 10-foot radius of a computer.
I find it unfair that Fairfax County Public Schools feels they can impose this kind of totalitarianism on me, I’m now a criminal for making proxies. For making a website. A legal website. On my private server. Outside of school. Great.
Read the article to get a better sense of this situation. Thoughts?
That’s My Mouse
That’s My Mouse went live about a minute ago. I’ve installed it (copied a piece of javascript) on this wiki page.
ThatsMyMouse allows people to passively interact. Just by navigating through a web-page you can interact with the people on it. Since it’s written in JavaScript (and supports all major browsers) it works for 95+% of visitors after a website places a single line of JavaScript on their page. You can see, talk and interact with anyone who browses to the same page as you.
Let’s see how this works.
Update: Interesting, although I have no idea how this would be useful. Ideas?
Update #2: Many of us had a chance to play with it today. It was quite fun. I’ve saved the chat transcript as there were a few ideas brought up as to how this could be used in some useful way.
Now that a few people have had a chance to play, please comment with what ideas you have. And @arthus, I noticed you had strong criticisms about this. I encourage you to voice your thoughts here.