Comments on: Oh No She Dinnit: Great Graphs

By: Lady in a Smalltown

Lady in a Smalltown — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:58:50 +0000

I teach elementary school technology and if I beat nothing into their heads it is that content matters more that appearance. They are NOT to change their font from Arial 14 until they have finished typing everything and saved the file. I feel like I should show them these graphs to help them understand. I insist on the same thing when they first starting using Keynote as well. They can pick the white or black templates and they can’t change any fonts or colors until they are done. Some of them have figured out they can actually get their work done faster if they just DO IT! Good luck to you.

By: Carnival of Education: 209th Edition! | Steve Spangler's Blog

Carnival of Education: 209th Edition! | Steve Spangler's Blog — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:05:41 +0000

[...] a good time,” head on over to Scheiss Weekly. Mamacita (Jane Goodwin) has posted some hilarious graphs, lifted straight out of [...]

By: Ms. Cornelius

Ms. Cornelius — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:34:49 +0000

Classic! And sorry, but I would rather grade papers than listen to out-of-tune instruments squeak and wail.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:23:57 +0000

I saw these this week and instantly thought of you! LOL!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:44:33 +0000

This is hilarious, and SO true!!

By: Hula Doula

Hula Doula — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:38:52 +0000

Will they ever learn?

By: jen

jen — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:04:28 +0000

You know, the benefit to teaching band was that I never had to grade papers. Have my eardrums bleed on a weekly basis, but never grade papers. I don’t think I could have handled the plagiarism.
And I’ll have to check out GraphJam…that looks like fun!

By: cupcake

cupcake — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:22:42 +0000

I laughed so hard when I read that, because I just lived that nightmare. I wrote on one kid’s paper, “You should earn an F for this because all you did was cut and paste from online sources, and, worse, you used Wikipedia. But I will give you the opportunity to rewrite this to avoid a failing grade.” He came to me, horribly offended and outraged at the suggestion that he cheated. When I pointed out to him that the font changed not once, not twice, but FOUR FREAKING TIMES in the course of the essay AND he forgot to remove hyperlinks, he said, “I don’t know how that got there.” I told the little punk that he ought to get an F just for lack of creative lying.

By: MrsC

MrsC — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:14:57 +0000

Too funny!

By: myangel52

myangel52 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:19:26 +0000

So funny! And sadly true.