Older Folks and Vaping Front Porch - Part 2

[FlamingoTutu]

My father spent most of his working life teaching. One year in junior high my home room teacher was taking her dog to the same dog obedience class I was elected to take our family dog to. She had to drive me there one night and wanted to know if my father was so and so. I said yes. She then said my father was such a tough teacher her husband (that very semester) had dropped my father's class and took two others to make up for it. I was always worried she was going to flunk me. My father is still in touch with students he had over 40 years ago.

Can't help it, that brought back memories. There was a dachshund in that class whose legs were so short that the instructors had to get down on the ground to tell if it was really sitting, in a down position or cheating. Even then they sometimes couldn't tell and had to slide something under it to make sure it was lying down.

 

[MattB101]

Don't know if i'd vape in the rain , just go under some shelter.
Most the times i don't take the vaping out with me just do it at home.

Mine goes everywhere I do. Only place I have been recently without it is the mailbox and I have been known to take it there as well.

 

[Canno]

Nothing bro.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

If ya'll ever want a Statistical Analysis lesson or a Forecasting Methodologies in Today's Logistics World lesson - just let me know - I am there.

Got all excited because I read "meteorology" the first time.

After looking at the above posts, I'm zippin it again.

Edit: I'll zip it after this, I'm a PHD. post hole digger

Just, I feel dumb. lol

Just keep nodding knowingly (like you understand every word they say), fools them every time.

 

[PapaSloth]

Can't help it, that brought back memories. There was a dachshund in that class whose legs were so short that the instructors had to get down on the ground to tell if it was really sitting, in a down position or cheating. Even then they sometimes couldn't tell and had to slide something under it to make sure it was lying down.

That's hilarious. I kind of want to read a Boston Globe article on academic dishonesty in dog obedience classes now.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

That's hilarious. I kind of want to read a Boston Globe article on academic dishonesty in dog obedience classes now.

I'm not sure they would have bothered except there was a St. Bernard named Treasure (Mr. Super SloMo) that took about 15 seconds to sit down and 20+ to lie down so they had time to kill. Many good laughs in that class.

 

[classwife]

After looking at the above posts, I'm zippin it again.

Edit: I'll zip it after this, I'm a PHD. post hole digger

Just, I feel dumb. lol

GASP!!
Have you thought about elastic waist pants ?

 

[Semiretired]

Ok, I am going to tell one class story - it is my favorite one.

I was teaching a Business Ethics class as a fill in and on the first day of class I asked all of the students to stand up. I told them I preferrred them to sit in a particular order to make it easier for me to separate one type of student from another.

After all of them had stood up - I asked for all of the students that were going to make an A in the class to sit in the first row next to the door. About 3 out of 30 did.

Next, I wanted everyone that was going to make a B to sit in the second row - about 7 did.

The third row was for the students that were going to make a C.

The fourth row I left empty.

The fifth row was for the students that either doubted they would pass or were not sure.

I then announced that everyone that were sure they were going to make an A could at there own discretion fill out the class attendance card and leave as I was sure whatever they needed to learn from the class they would learn on their own since they already had their books.

The students that had decided a B was in their future - if they had a B at mid term and were satisfied with it - they could after getting their grade - join the A students and would still recieve their mid term grades as their final grades.

The chosen C students could at their own option write a 25 page term paper before mid terms - and thereby increase their grades to a B and join the others.

The rest of the students were going to be required to write 3 25 page term papers to help boost their grades as I did not want any failures in my classes...

Then I announced - Does this sound Ethical?

One of the students sitting in the A section asks - Does this mean I do not get to leave???

 

[FlamingoTutu]

I hope you told him to go sit in the 6th row.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

GASP!!
Have you thought about elastic waist pants ?

I think you just scared everybody out of the room.

 

[Semiretired]

I hope you told him to go sit in the 6th row.

The sad part is when I was going through this with them - almost half of the class was in the last category...

 

[classwife]

I think you just scared everybody out of the room.

It took a lot of work to have those results !

 

[PapaSloth]

It's a slow news day, and I'm filing grades for the term this weekend, so I'll tell a story from this term.

Due to a last-minute juggling of schedules, I ended up with two back-to-back lecture classes on Mondays, for a total of 6 straight hours of lecture from 3PM-9PM. These were also two classes I've never taught before, so I was spending the full day up to 3PM preparing for the lectures. Once, near the end of the term, I was just completely fried by the end of the second class. So, I told my students that for the last 20 minutes, we'd be working in small groups on that week's lab. Then, while most of them were off doing that, I spent some time helping a few students one-on-one, and answering any questions that came up. It was basically a total abdication of my responsibility as instructor

Well, I ask all of my students to fill out a course evaluation survey at the end of the class, and one of the questions was what they would change about the structure of the class. Several students explicitly mentioned the "time they got to work with their peers" as particularly valuable and useful, and something that the class should have more of

 

[MattB101]

For me it is yellow and I am not color blind - unless it happened today...

It's green here.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

It took a lot of work to have those results !

Maybe you can pop into one of those threads spiraling out of control and mention elastic waistbands and see how fast the thread empties out. Maybe you can work Polident in there and really freak them out.

 

[Semiretired]

Change of subject - sorry... I have been looking for a low profile PV for a while now and have pretty much given up. I was in our local Vape Shop the other day and looked at what was available. They had the e-leaf and told me that there was an attachment you could get for them that allowed the tank / clearo to be on the side of the PV instead of on top (they did not carry it). While it is not what I was originally wanting I am looking at changing my requirements. I have looked and looked and have not been able to find such an attachment for the Leaf.

Is there one? Anybody got a link?

 

[FlamingoTutu]

It's a slow news day, and I'm filing grades for the term this weekend, so I'll tell a story from this term.

Due to a last-minute juggling of schedules, I ended up with two back-to-back lecture classes on Mondays, for a total of 6 straight hours of lecture from 3PM-9PM. These were also two classes I've never taught before, so I was spending the full day up to 3PM preparing for the lectures. Once, near the end of the term, I was just completely fried by the end of the second class. So, I told my students that for the last 20 minutes, we'd be working in small groups on that week's lab. Then, while most of them were off doing that, I spent some time helping a few students one-on-one, and answering any questions that came up. It was basically a total abdication of my responsibility as instructor

Well, I ask all of my students to fill out a course evaluation survey at the end of the class, and one of the questions was what they would change about the structure of the class. Several students explicitly mentioned the "time they got to work with their peers" as particularly valuable and useful, and something that the class should have more of

Interesting response. At least you've learned this pretty much up front instead of 10 years down the line. Perhaps they are learning/retaining information better being able to interact with one another? That's what it did for this ADHD student anyway.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

Change of subject - sorry... I have been looking for a low profile PV for a while now and have pretty much given up. I was in our local Vape Shop the other day and looked at what was available. They had the e-leaf and told me that there was an attachment you could get for them that allowed the tank / clearo to be on the side of the PV instead of on top (they did not carry it). While it is not what I was originally wanting I am looking at changing my requirements. I have looked and looked and have not been able to find such an attachment for the Leaf.

Is there one? Anybody got a link?

Are you talking about this? Eleaf iStick Bending Adapter

 

[Semiretired]

Are you talking about this? Eleaf iStick Bending Adapter

That may have been what he was talking about, but that was not what I had in mind...What I was talking about was something like the Itaste by Innokin.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

You mean something like this Review: Innokin iTaste VTR - Vape Squad