tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post2104757565251001189..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: "Why Do I Send Email Reminders if the Students Don't Fucking Read Them Anyway?" Keith From Kansas Joins the Party Late.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-13468669374514078812011-10-22T18:02:59.347-04:002011-10-22T18:02:59.347-04:00Many of our students appear to read their email (i...Many of our students appear to read their email (if they read it at all) on smartphones with broken scroll functions. Your correspondent probably got as far as "As a reminder" (s)he ran out of patience and/or screen. <br /><br />Our LMS has an "announcements" function which seems to be popular with many of my colleagues, but about which I'm extremely ambivalent. I'mContingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-63528129276090868262011-10-22T17:02:44.740-04:002011-10-22T17:02:44.740-04:00P.S. If you're going to use a textbook for tha...P.S. If you're going to use a textbook for that, I recommend a 2x4 with nails in it instead. That way, it won't be so expensive when it breaks. Rusty nails are preferable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-66840678934058181622011-10-22T17:01:15.867-04:002011-10-22T17:01:15.867-04:00While I do still use e-mail to communicate with a ...While I do still use e-mail to communicate with a few of my best students, such as grad students with whom I am doing research, I quit sending mass e-mailings to students years ago. It gives them yet another excuse to snivel, since they can claim they never received the message, and I can't prove that they did. All course information is given in class, and in writing (either written or Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-45203874056462203202011-10-22T14:46:11.230-04:002011-10-22T14:46:11.230-04:00Yeah, I'm with Academic Monkey. At least then,...Yeah, I'm with Academic Monkey. At least then, the book would be used for SOMETHING.The Contemplative Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088570661592922436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-56091025361943823362011-10-22T14:15:50.925-04:002011-10-22T14:15:50.925-04:00I smiled in sympathy for both sides. I have been ...I smiled in sympathy for both sides. I have been just as guilty as your students; too damn lazy to bother to read the email I'm replying to.Merely Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452389428113097744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2939184159838931992011-10-22T12:21:15.833-04:002011-10-22T12:21:15.833-04:00This is why I want to use my textbooks to hit them...This is why I want to use my textbooks to hit them in the backs of their precious little snowflake heads.<br /><br />I'm dealing with a similar batch of idiots myself this term.Academic Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086078244493768565noreply@blogger.com