Comments on: Welcome to class

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:42:21 +0000

You could go part way. You would never, never incur students’ wrath if you simply published all the problems up front, and added a wiki for them to discuss them.

Camel’s nose stratagem — later on, you can stick in the point things. And the mutual grading. And the renegotiation.

Actually, I think the renegotiation is the most important part, but that’s just my XP sensibility sneaking in….

By: richard

richard — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:27:33 +0000

I have just GOT to do this. If only I had tenure and, like Stanley Fish with his “invent a language” assignment he wrote about in the NY Times, could survive the loathing and confusion of my students….

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:57:57 +0000

Wishful thinking, alas. But I’m dead set against using another method, until I’ve tried this one out.

By: Geetu

Geetu — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:24:23 +0000

Did you actually do this? If so, what was the response? I’d LOVE to read follow-up posts by you on the students’ responses, how the class evolved, anything else you’d like to share.

Or was this wishful thinking – or a class you would LIKE to teach at sometime?