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The influence of the internet on grading papers
« on: Feb 7th, 2005, 3:01am » |
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I just got a paper back I handed in a few days ago. Naturally there were several comments written on it.
And also emoticons.. 
Three of the comments had a smiley behind them, and one a frown 
Have other people experienced this? Or done it (since I know some of you are teachers).
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Re: The influence of the internet on grading paper
« Reply #1 on: Feb 7th, 2005, 7:34am » |
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on Feb 7th, 2005, 3:01am, towr wrote:I just got a paper back I handed in a few days ago. Naturally there were several comments written on it.
And also emoticons..
Three of the comments had a smiley behind them, and one a frown
Have other people experienced this? Or done it (since I know some of you are teachers). |
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Since I'm still in limbo, I've neither done it nor had it done to me, but I have included smileys in hand-written correspondence. As an eccentricity, I usually do them "sideways" - as they appear when writing a post rather than as they appear when reading a post.
Mind you, if you go right back to early years of schooling, it wouldn't surprise me to find smiley face stickers on work...
And it makes a certain amount of sense to use such compact notation to represent approval/disapproval - it's no worsethan the "g", "v.g" etc of my youth (Suddenly I feel like I shoud be in a rocking chair on the porch watching the tumbleweed roll by)
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Re: The influence of the internet on grading paper
« Reply #2 on: Feb 7th, 2005, 7:56am » |
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on Feb 7th, 2005, 7:34am, rmsgrey wrote:| Since I'm still in limbo, I've neither done it nor had it done to me, but I have included smileys in hand-written correspondence. As an eccentricity, I usually do them "sideways" - as they appear when writing a post rather than as they appear when reading a post. |
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Well, in normal writing sure. But papers at university, that's at least semi-formal. It's not a place where I'd expect smileys to be used (except maybe in source-code), least of all by my teachers.
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Well, it's in addition to the comment. In one case it's
"ok :)"
I allready got the approval from "ok", so the additional ":)" doesn't make it any compacter.
It just strikes me as peculiar, also because it's the first time in over 6 years of university I've ever noticed it.
Well, at least there wasn't any *lol* or *lmao* comment, that'd really freak me out.
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Re: The influence of the internet on grading paper
« Reply #3 on: Feb 7th, 2005, 8:07am » |
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Personally, when I grade an exam, I try to be as formal as possible -- I try to even avoid written comments. I do recall getting a homework back in my undergraduate years that had a smiley on it -- but that was the "regular" smiley, not the internet-style one.
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Re: The influence of the internet on grading paper
« Reply #4 on: Feb 7th, 2005, 6:32pm » |
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As someone whose schooling mostly preceded widespread use of the internet, I never received, nor ever put "emoticons" on papers. Some of my students would have prefered them, I'm sure, as I was a vicious grader. I often handed back tests that looked as if someone had bled all over them. 
However, I did receive the occasional smiley face or similar symbol on some homework & tests, particularly if the course was not technical, and the teacher was a younger female who had not yet outgrown such things.
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Re: The influence of the internet on grading paper
« Reply #5 on: Feb 7th, 2005, 7:56pm » |
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on Feb 7th, 2005, 7:34am, rmsgrey wrote:
it's no worsethan the "g", "v.g" etc of my youth (Suddenly I feel like I shoud be in a rocking chair on the porch watching the tumbleweed roll by) |
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What is "g" and "v.g."-- Goth and Visigoth? Man, you are old.
I remember one teacher who would sometimes use icons instead of letters, such as a stick figure of a man, to represent a variable. Although I cannot recall, it wouldn't suprise me if he would use smileys when grading. He was not just some young whippersnapper-- over 60 years old.
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Re: The influence of the internet on grading paper
« Reply #6 on: Feb 8th, 2005, 11:04am » |
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on Feb 7th, 2005, 7:56pm, SWF wrote:
What is "g" and "v.g."-- Goth and Visigoth? Man, you are old.
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From context, I deduced that they were intended to abbr. "good" and "very good"
There was a prevalent theory that our Classics teacher was speaking from personal experience much of the time 
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