Nonsensical Ramblings of a Scary Muffin

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After the Midterm - Wednesday, March 02, 2005 at 3:23 p.m.

Finally I am done all 5 of my midterms...back to blogging then!

I'm still having trouble researching the origins of the Karma system...so far it appears to me to be a forum or comment program (similar to UBB) that various sites can purchase and use but other sites, mainly SE, have adopted and made a mainstay part of their appeal.

In either case, I thought that I might as well put in a few comments on yesterday's lecture.
First off, the thing that everyone will be interested in: The Numa numa dance!

Second issue at hand, for the one minute essay, Richard asked us if we wanted cell phones to be a part of our "academic experience." Myself, being quite the jokester, immediately thought "Yes, I want it to be part of the cheating element of my academic experience" (Joke of course, I am such a scaredy cat)

Seriously speaking however, cheating with cellphones is a complete impossibility. First of all, text messaging is too slow and too easy to catch. This leaves the option of morse code through vibration. If you're going to take the effort to become an expert of morse code, you might as well study. If you already are an expert, more power to you, but the vibrations are too slow and really, the only use is in multiple choice, of which there were little/none on our midterm. Still, one cannot apply this very well as vibro still makes an audio noise so other methods (such as tapping people's toes in morse) would still be better.

Seriously speaking again, having other electronics be incorporated into the course would not be so bad. Maybe not cellphones, but laptops. I recall joining elive for 253 even when I was still in class. I was able to talk directly to Richard when I wanted to (and advertise my blog) and it was useful. It can eliminate shyness as questions can be asked privately and the professor can share the question with the class only if he or she thinks it proper. Not to mention that an all laptop class would make it easier to take notes. The process would still work even during exams. MSN messenger has an activity called "appshare" that allows one to see another person's desktop and as long as the professor can see everyone, then Foucalt's panopticon applies. No one would dare cheat.
- Cheers,
MrScaryMuffin

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