Oh hey only six more hours of staring at a wall.
Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.
Oz ,'First Date'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Oct 20, 2011 9:10:33 am PDT #2410 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Hil R. - Oct 20, 2011 9:11:18 am PDT #2411 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
Hil R. - Oct 20, 2011 9:12:17 am PDT #2412 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
Jessica - Oct 20, 2011 9:20:02 am PDT #2413 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
they had some things coded by color, so you couldn't even sort it automatically, so stupid
In Excel, you can sort by color.
Steph L. - Oct 20, 2011 9:31:53 am PDT #2414 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Consuela - Oct 20, 2011 9:32:27 am PDT #2415 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
sumi - Oct 20, 2011 9:32:42 am PDT #2416 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Ginger - Oct 20, 2011 9:42:05 am PDT #2417 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The problem with editing on paper is that no one can read my handwriting.
Jessica - Oct 20, 2011 9:42:08 am PDT #2418 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
ETA: Oh, lookit that, you can sort on both! How interesting.
Yep, by both/either.
It's not nearly as useful as sorting alphanumerically, because you can't do it automatically A-Z, you need to manually tell Excel "blue first, then green, etc etc"
But it comes in handy for me when I mark restricted stuff in red and want to put it all at the top so the client can clearly see what they'll need to replace.
Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2011 9:43:51 am PDT #2419 of 30001
brillig
I wish I could find a good way to teach students to do this.
What I like about the Lattice Multiplication is that it reinforces the importance of the 0 as a place holder. That's what messed me up on the other method, I didn't put in the 00's, I just wrote down the relevant numbers, so I got my columns misaligned.
I redid the process to double-check my math and got the same result, then I looked at the numbers I got when I multiplied the 1's, 10's, and 100s, and added them together with the relevant 00s. That's when I realized my 100s number was assuming too many 00s.
This may be related to why I can do tech support and others can't, I can break things down into component parts.