Maybe our students would be interested in Shakespeare

by Dr Davis on January 25, 2010

Maybe our students would be more interested in Shakespeare if they knew what came after a Shakespeare play.

Sexually explicit jigs were a major part of the attraction of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration stage, as Lucie Skeaping explains.

History Today has the complete article. I think the students might enjoy knowing this.

It also might keep them from thinking that they invented sex… Just maybe.

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Saga of Online Teaching 8

by Dr Davis on January 25, 2010

Have you ever done something foolish and not realized it?

That’s what I did.

red-computer-keysWhen I set up the introduction to the course I did not set it up to track the viewers. So when I hit reports, there were none.

I worked through Automate to put up reminders that the students should access that course material, but I found that what I wanted to do I couldn’t, so I stopped. However, when I went back to look at the introduction to the course, that’s when I realized I had disabled the Track function.

So I didn’t really know whether they had looked at the material or not.

That’s something to make sure I check for each folder in the future.

By the end of the first week (not the full class week) I had 13 of my 20 registered students log into the course. If the other 7 didn’t log in by the end of the full class week, they would be dropped.

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