If you are a Mac person, such as myself, there are alternatives for us.
I found 3 and am trying out one for the last virtual stack of papers for this
semester.
I found them at a cool site called http://alternativeto.net/ which is a
database of alternative programs on other platforms.
I'm tr
She passed away on May 10th at the age of 92.
Gone but not forgotten
Requiescat in pace. Et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Well,the Obama administration has decided "to cut through the chase" and begin
executing programs of treatment for drug addiction.
This seems to be in line with the successes of the British and other European
models that view the addicted as having a medical problem
which deserves treatment.It
Some subscribers to TIPS and AERA-TEP-SIG128 might be interested in a
post "Re: Less Than Positive Review of Inquiry Based Learning" [Hake
(2010)]. The abstract reads:
ABSTRACT: Sharon Begley (2010), in her provocative Newsweek article
"Second-Class Sci
My last post of the day. =)
There are 3 versions of Phrase Express. The freeware version and the v7
Easy version are the same. The freeware version was made for personal
use. If it detects certain phrases that appear too 'business' focused,
the program will start to give you pop-ups encouragin
As usual Sue, you have the answers! I like this idea of phraseexpress and am
downloading even as I reply to thank you for this idea.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Professor, Psychological Sciences
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
tay...@sandiego.edu
I agree on all counts; my handwriting is also horrible and my typing very
fast--my hands can't keep up with my thoughts but my fingers can.
I also have had the problem with accept all changes. Just this semester, I had
a student who had written in a citation by noting the title of the paper. I
Thanks, Sue. You're amazing. I just downloaded PhraseExpress. Now I'll
never have to type this again:
"In American English (but not, interestingly, in British/Canadian English),
*all* periods and commas go *inside* quotation marks, even if, as in this
case, it doesn't seem to "fit."
Beth Benoit
Referencing my earlier post about no longer using my Tablet for grading papers,
none of that means that I think you shouldn't ask for a Tablet.
I write all over my PowerPoint slides during class, and the touch screen makes
it very easy to jump around to different slides when using PPT's presente
I actually grade using audio feedback. It actually takes less time than
using Word Markup. I also found students have a less negative reaction
to the amount of feedback they get, especially on research methods lab
reports. Of course I no longer can start with the print is a lovely font
:)
I use a
I haven't used the pen tablet technology, but my gut reaction is to resist
the temptation to continue the habit of written marginal notes. Now if the
tablet technology will convert your scrawl into readable typed text . . . .
I might revise my opinion. :-)
My reasons are driven mainly by my own
Last month I gave a presentation at a regional conference on grading
electronically. The handout from that presentation is now available in ToPIX:
http://teachpsych.pbworks.com/Grading-Papers.
I have a Tablet, and I used to use it to grade papers, but I finally gave up on
it, and now just use
This semester I am doing my first grading of papers submitted electronically.
What I'm doing is what occurred to me to be sensible, using the comments
feature of Word to make notes and attaching a grade rubric table to the end of
the paper that I fill with the points earned.
However, I can ima
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