‘Tis the Season for extensions
Our students are overwhelmed with the amount of work piling up now. Long-term projects are coming due. Senior thesis deadlines have arrived.
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Todd Knopke’s Deluge
Come experience the pieces in person, or get a virtual sneak peek by clicking on this link!
Two site-specific, large-scale fabric installations by artist Todd Knopke will be adorning the walls of the Atrium of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. The collages will be on display March 28-July 20.
April is the cruelest month
Finally!
After a long winter, the air is warming, birds are chirping, the snow has melted away! For some reason, this winter has seemed longer than usual. Probably because that’s what everyone’s been saying and after a while we tend to believe it. Winter was the same length as usual, of course.
Can we give assignments that aren’t too time-consuming to grade? Part II
Last week’s blog post gave a few ideas of kinds of assignments we could give our students that are challenging for them, but perhaps a little less onerous for us to grade. Here are a few more ideas. I think the key factors for me are variety, brevity and student ownership.
Can we give rich assignments that are also not too time consuming to grade? Part I
One of the worst parts of my job as a professor is grading. Mind-numbing and neck-stiffening, grading takes huge amounts of time. Reading the same essay question responses or lab reports and papers for dozens of students is so unpleasant that we almost have to tie ourselves to our chairs to get us to do it! And, of course, with stressed-out students beginning and completing those assignments by pulling all-nighters, the quality of some of that work makes the task all that much more stultifying.