Innovative Uses for a Computer Classroom? 350
flard asks: "I will be teaching a Freshman English class at a medium sized public university, in a computer classroom for next semester. Every student has their own machine with an internet connection. I am thinking about using a weblog for them to post their work and critique each other. Do you guys have any other cool ideas on what to do and what NOT to do?" How can the computers best be applied to assist in teaching a non-technical class? Use of a weblog is a start, but are there other pieces of software that can be deployed in such a setting?
Let's see... (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, with a good packet sniffer, you can snatch the notes from their grasp and read them aloud. Just like with paper!
How about (Score:3, Funny)
New uses for computers in the classroom (Score:1, Funny)
Re:why not use slashcode ? (Score:2, Funny)
I don't think your average C compiler is going to do well with Freshman English compositions.
Teach the Dangers of Spell Checkers (Score:3, Funny)
Dont let them touch it (Score:1, Funny)
The discipline will be priceless.
Slashorcizes instead of busy work... (Score:3, Funny)
Shouldn't be to hard to find them errors eh?
Re:if you have good LCD display (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Teach the Dangers of Spell Checkers (Score:3, Funny)
Did gym and Gibbs in the wake.
All mimes were the borrowers,
And the moderate Belgrade.
"Beware the tablespoon my son,
The teeth that bite, the Claus that catch.
Beware the Subjects bird, and shred
The serious Bandwidth!"
He took his Verbal sword in hand:
Long time the monitors fog he sought,
So rested he by the Tumbled tree,
And stood a while in thought.
And as in selfish thought he stood,
The tablespoon, with eyes of Flame,
Came stifling through the trigger wood,
And troubled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and though,
The Verbal blade went thicker shade.
He left it dead, and with its head,
He went gambling back.
"And host Thai slash the tablespoon?
Come to my arms my bearish boy.
Oh various day! Cartoon! Cathay!"
He charted in his joy.
Teas Willis, and the sticky tours
Did gym and Gibbs in the wake.
All mimes were the borrowers,
And the moderate Belgrade.
That one is by far my favorite. It was obtained by writing Jabberwocky on a Newton OMP (Original Message Pad). Those had the worst HWR imaginable. The 130 actually had pretty good recognition accuracy and the 2X00 is simply phenomenal.
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Re:How about (Score:3, Funny)
However, it would be a good source of assignments.
Teacher: Class, today we're going to spell-check and grammar check the front page of Slashdot.
Re:Teach the Dangers of Spell Checkers (Score:4, Funny)
I always liked this:
Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea,
It plainly marques for my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a whirred
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write,
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as the misses ache is maid
It nose before two long
And aye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am sure your pleased to no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.
Wonderful.
Re:Computers in class are good, the internet howev (Score:3, Funny)
It works (Score:1, Funny)
Hey, he is right. I am perfectly happy helping you with your grammar from an anonymous standpoint. I wouldn't have done this if you knew who I was.