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The clandestine experiment, disclosed publicly for the first time at a faculty meeting Tuesday night, came to light about a year-and-a-half after revelations that administrators had secretly searched thousands of Harvard e-mail accounts. That led the university to implement new privacy policies on electronic communication this spring, but another round of controversy followed the latest disclosure.
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Thank God they aren't snapping proffies!
ReplyDeleteI am completely unapologetic about photographing my students, but then I tell students in my syllabus that I'm going to do it, with a clause at the end of the syllabus that being enrolled in the class and not dropping it constitutes agreement to the terms of the syllabus. I photograph my students in the beginning of the semester, to print up on a piece of foam board and pass around, so students can print their names legibly and not over their faces, so I can learn names. My students regard this as friendly. I also photograph my classes during exams, and it noticeably cuts down attempts at cheating. I bring a DSLR camera and a big zoom lens. Waving that thing around does get noticed: the message is be good, or the proffie will point his nasty thing at you.
ReplyDeleteI use a Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 zoom lens. At F = 85mm, it can zoom in on the pair of students sitting so close together I ask them if they're dating. At F = 17mm, the field of view is so wide I can image the whole classroom in one image, with a clock on the back wall, to document latecomers and other events.
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