I feel academically smug. I ran a few test Lattice Multiplication problems next to the basic multi-digit multiplication format that I learned (1's, 10's, 100's, etc.). Everything was hunky dory until I hit one where I got wildly divergent numbers, so I went for the calculator to see which one was right. And the Lattice one was right, so I spent several minutes analyzing where I went wrong and discovered a fundamental bit that I'd forgotten over the years.
Thereby illustrating what the video was saying about it being a less muck-up-able method than the other way.
I be smart! No, wait, I be trying hard!
I'm gonna read smutty fic now.
By the time I finished my MLIS most of my comments were given electronically.
It's a requirement to fly with a black pen now? That's not in the documentation I got.
I think the customs declaration forms bet. US/Canada state blue or black pen.
Oh hey only six more hours of staring at a wall.
She wouldn't let me mark in red pen, because she says they find it dispiriting. Is that common practice?
It was the trend a while ago. I don't remember exactly when, but for a while, all the stores were selling packages of purple pens for teachers who didn't want to grade in red. From what I've seen, it seems to not really be the trend anymore. I usually mark in other colors, because I don't like looking at all that red, and I've (totally unscientifically) noticed that my students seem to be more likely to actually read the comments written in purple or green or turquoise, while they mostly just look at the things they got wrong when it's written in red. That could be totally my imagination, though.
I be smart! No, wait, I be trying hard!
Yay!
so I spent several minutes analyzing where I went wrong
I wish I could find a good way to teach students to do this.
they had some things coded by color, so you couldn't even sort it automatically, so stupid
In Excel, you can sort by color.
I prefer marking hard copy, like I said. I just thought it was going away. It has in much of publishing.
God, I love editing on hard copy. I miss it SO MUCH. I hate editing in Word. Hate it like burning. Fuck you, "track changes." Fuck you hard.
In Excel, you can sort by color.
By color of the cell? Or color of the text? ETA: Oh, lookit that, you can sort on both! How interesting.
And frankly, I don't think these folks knew how to do that--I'm a frakkin' Excel genius compared to them. I think their sorting was by hand.
The problem with editing on paper is that no one can read my handwriting.
