Small class. Eight people. Eleve after late shows. At least two other guys are in several other classes with me; they’re both on eighteen hour schedules, too. Makes sense that we’d start to concentrate here at the end. (more…)
August 27, 2008
August 26, 2008
HR Info Systems, August 26 2008
Getting started in my HR Information Systems class. I don’t have high hopes for this class; I really picked it on the assumption that it would end up being easy. Time will tell.
It’s starting to look like it will be an online course. It was not listed as such in the syllabus when I signed up, but the course was apparently designed to be online-only originally. Enough people signed up with it as a lecture class that the professor will have to run it as lecture unless we agree otherwise. She’d clearly rather do it that way. I’d rather have a lecture class than an online class, all else being equal, but I’d rather have a good online class than a poor lecture. So, I can go either way. (more…)
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August 25, 2008
International Management, August 25 2008
Professor is Dr. Melissa Gonzalez. Apparently, she was previously Melissa Najera, but got married and changed her last name recently. Several of the other students seem to recognize her from previous classes, and are happy to see her, so that’s a good sign. Seems to be a very animated, high-energy person.
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Organizational Behavior, August 25 2008
Early class. Run by Professor Louis White. Don’t like the 8:30 in the morning schedule, but I can do it. I’ve worked jobs where I had to show up that early before. Just requires discipline. (more…)
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July 14, 2008
Back porch drawing
I’m still excited about the drawing class I started this morning, so I took my little sketch pad and a pencil out on the back porch to do a little bit of practicing.
I scanned the results in to my computer with Grandpa’s printer/scanner/copier thingy. It doesn’t seem to be a wildly great scanner, but I really don’t need much for pencil sketches. Really, given that I’ve been at this for one day, I can only attribute quality problems to the artist, not to the equipment. (more…)
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Visual Basic, July 14 2008
Talking about arrays today. Maybe I’ll finally learn how to make an actual array of controls automatically.
Sleepy again. Not sure why I keep coming to this class. I don’t actually pay any attention to the professor, so I’m clearly wasting my time. I could just as easily stay home and work on my homework.
The next homework assignment involves making a Tic-Tac-Toe game. That should be a fun one.
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July 2, 2008
Visual Basic, July 2 2008
Got our tests from last class back. 88. Not bad, and it was a fair test. There are a few questions I didn’t like, but I missed them honestly. One stupid math error, one definition I didn’t know. Half the points lost were true/false questions, which I hate and have griped about before, but at least these ones weren’t stupid trick questions. Some of the answers are things I’m inclined to argue, but they aren’t unambiguously wrong. And the grade is high enough not to justify arguing.
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July 1, 2008
Organizational Behavior, July 1 2008
We got our tests from last class back. I did quite poorly. 67, including about twelve points that were clearly just freebies on the “discussion” question. This whole thing makes me fairly angry.
The test itself was very poorly constructed. Clearly a test bank put together by the textbook maker. Opara flatly said they were a test bank and he didn’t make the test or grade it. Lots of True/False questions, which are almost inevitably trick questions, and these were no exception. The rest were multiple choice, but typically multiple choice where none of the answers made sense, or all seemed equally correct. In several cases, the answer marked as “correct” was in flat disagreement with the textbook. The most egregious example of this was four consecutive questions that more than 50% of the class answered identically, and got wrong. That sort of thing indicates a problem with the teaching or the testing, not the learning. To put in in OB terms, that indicates external causation. High consensus, high consistency, high distinctiveness.
The essay is just as bad. A woman in my group answered amazingly better than me. Had all five points asked for correct. Got either 8 or 18 points. I got one of those points correct, and received 15 points on the essay. Didn’t even use complete sentences.
I’m dropping this class, and taking it over in the fall. Already did the registration.
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June 23, 2008
Visual Basic, June 23 2008
Picked up where we left off last time. Got last week’s assignment turned in. Have some homework due this week. (more…)
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June 17, 2008
OB, June 17 2008
Starting class with some group discussion today. “The Alligator River Story”. Rank all the characters in order of badness.
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