L. Marcus Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hahah! ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER A friend of mine referred to the Comedy Writer in the Sky, yukking it up at her expense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "There is a God! And he's a gag-writer!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... with an inordinate fondness for beetles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Well, what is the elephant for?" "Dung!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Everyone in the Okavango has had several harrowing, narrow escapes from hippos, and in the process developed a profound and enduring hippo phobia. There is little to recommend the hippo." -- Baboon Metaphysics, D L Cheney & R M Seyfarth, p. 39. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Lookit them snappers, willya?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Why is everyone so hot on snappers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Y'know, I'd really like it if there was a non-gratuitous way to give my Solar System Astronomy course a service learning component, but ... there just isn't. Oh, there's things I could make them do, but it would be irrelevant make-work. Of course, I suspect that's what 98% of all "service learning" is in the first place.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... "Service learning"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Service learning", AFAICT, is the extraction of menial labor outside of the classroom from a group of people and giving them class credit for it. The menial labor is alleged to be relevant to course, but like most allegations that don't end up in court such allegations are largely baseless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER My service learning project and USF was the creation of a database driven website for an orphanage in India that one of my fellow cohort's company sponsored. There were some things in the project that were relevant to what we had learned over the course of the program, but for the most part, as you said, it was just menial labor. But that is part of the Jesuit philosophy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER If your students have time for menial labor, you aren't giving hard enough homework! windbag mode> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER LOL That was pretty much every class after the first two writing courses I had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Mmmm, earning money ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Mind, I do not in any way want to think about what a service learning component might be in a Black Hole Astrophysics course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hm.... build spaceship? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Making miniature black holes, losing them through a containment breach, and spend the last few months the Earth has left tryong to coax the little buggers out of there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Psst ... just a hint ... never use the terms "buggers" and "black hole" in the same paragraph. Just sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... Not even unintentionally? ^^; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Depending on how sensitive your audience is ... I don't recommend it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... Another day, another dime ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Better than a dime bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That way lies ruin. More so than the Gin Dragon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hmmm. Gin Dragon. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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