Re: Cell phones

[Miguel Roig]

Hi, Louis.  That's another neat technique and it should drive the point across that cell phone ringing in class can be very disruptive.  Note, however, that it is not just the ringing in class that concerns me, it is the displaying of the phone, the checking for text messages, and whatever else it is that students do with those things that can also be distracting to me and to those sitting immediately next to the individual engaging in those behaviors.

Miguel

At 06:13 AM 8/20/2004 -0400, you wrote:

Miguel, there is something else I've done.  In a fit of impishness, after talking about the disrespect of having a cell phone go off, in the middle of the class I have arranged to have someone call me on my cell phone.  When it goes off and the attention to whatever is going on is broken, I offer a "see what I mean?"   It worked.  I never did it again.  But, maybe I'll do that more often at the beginning of class in the coming semesters. 
 

                                                --Louis--


Louis Schmier                            www.therandomthoughts.com
Department of History                    www.halcyon.com/arborhts/louis.html
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, Georgia 31698                
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