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Showing posts with label All. Show all posts
Monday, April 12, 2010
NOTICE: MID-TERM EXAMS are scheduled for the WEEK OF 19 APRIL (next week; this is the last week of classes before the midterm). As usual there will be no makeup exam except with doctor's note and notification IN ADVANCE.
Notice
The mid-term examinations of the department are scheduled for the week of April 19th. It is recommended that no teaching activities be conducted during exam week.The Bible midterm will be on 20 April. It will cover the books from Job to Isaiah.
The Film midterm will be on 23 April. It will cover the chapter on cinematography, the handouts (including the Study Pictures), and the special handout on acting.
In Subject Line: NOTICE: MID-TERM EXAMS are scheduled for the WEEK OF 19 APRIL (next week; this is the last week of classes before the midterm). As usual there will be no makeup exam except with doctor's note and notification IN ADVANCE.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
NOTICE: MID-TERM EXAMS are scheduled for the WEEK OF 19 APRIL.
Notice
The mid-term examinations of the department are scheduled for the week of April 19th. It is recommended that no teaching activities be conducted during exam week.The Bible midterm will be on 20 April.
The Film midterm will be on 23 April.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
TO ALL STUDENTS: Semester Calendar, with important dates asterisked (starred); revised
Here's an academic calendar (adapted from the university web pages) that shows all the important dates of the remaining academic year with the exception of the midterm, which usually occurs near the spring break. When I get a date for that I'll let you know.
Foreign students and students from other departments should know that the midterm exam schedule is not necessarily the same as in other colleges or other departments of our college.
I updated this calendar in order to asterisk (highlight with a star) some other dates that are holidays or that may be of importance to students.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Exams
Since I've already been asked about Final Exams (!) I'll once again send a printscreen version of the semester schedule up to the beginning of the second semester (the complete schedule, for the entire academic year to June, is on the NCKU web pages). (This schedule is also on my blog, but I forget under which label/link: maybe "all," meaning "all students.")
Exam week begins 11 January 2010. The Bible Final will therefore occur exactly on 11 January. The Film Final will occur in the two-hour Friday session, on the 15th of January, during regularly scheduled times (starting at 1:10 p.m.) and in the regularly scheduled lecture classroom.
I've repeated this information numerous times, but on the other hand students have a right to be well informed about these matters.
I've no idea why midterms are not listed, but they are usually held the midpoint of the 18-week semester, therefore the 9th week, either the week of November 8 or 15. The same logic applies: Bible Exam will be on Monday of that week and the Film Exam will be on the Friday of that week. Of course we'll make a class announcement on this issue.
While I'm at it, let me remind you that I never allow absences for an exam! That means commit yourself to the exam date. A serious hospitalization with a note from a doctor and if the teacher is informed IN ADVANCE would then be excusable. But obviously it would be best for both of us if you did not get in such a situation!
At the same time, keep in mind that students who have poor study habits may suffer more disadvantage from a mild illness (slight fever, chills, stomach unrest) than if they had studied well all semester. It's easy to REVIEW what one has studied even with a low-grade fever; but one cannot STUDY with a low-grade fever or chills. That's one more reason to study all semester. If you plan to do your studying a day or two before exams and you fall ill you're in trouble! In case of a mild illness one can still review the material, show up for the exam, and do well.
Many stage actors perform well with a low-grade fever ("The show must go on!"); I myself passed an important exam with a low-grade fever and other symptoms. By the time the exam was finished the symptoms were gone!
Friday, September 18, 2009
FOR ALL NEW STUDENTS
FOR NEW STUDENTS in any of my classes (I've got 4), I would appreciate it if you contacted classmates, if possible, for previously emailed handouts. It's every tedious having to email students, often one at a time, continuously. It's taking up a lot of my time. (It's not as simple as it sounds; if nothing else, each student thinks s/he's the only one asking but there are a couple of dozen, if you add up all the classes.)
Besides, if a classmate tells you there were previous emailed handouts, it doesn't make sense why s/he doesn't just forward the email to you instead of just telling you that there were previous emails.
In addition, for another reason, this is a good way to make friends, not just "friends." I find it humorous that on Facebook everyone has 200 "friends" but in real life apparently no one has any friends?
However, if, after you receive this, you still need me to forward the emails, then contact me. Finally, don't forget, all important email is on my blog, CHARISMA, anyway (CHARISMA includes NEW handouts, EPIPHANY includes old handouts and is no longer current).
CHARISMA is organized by labels (another words for "links") at the bottom of the page. Look for your link and then send the page or highlight the text and copy/paste into your browser or Word, Wordpad, etc.
By the way, it doesn't matter how the text looks on my blog, it will look normal once you highlight (control-A), copy (control-C) and paste (control-V) into your own browser or some text file.
Besides, if a classmate tells you there were previous emailed handouts, it doesn't make sense why s/he doesn't just forward the email to you instead of just telling you that there were previous emails.
In addition, for another reason, this is a good way to make friends, not just "friends." I find it humorous that on Facebook everyone has 200 "friends" but in real life apparently no one has any friends?
However, if, after you receive this, you still need me to forward the emails, then contact me. Finally, don't forget, all important email is on my blog, CHARISMA, anyway (CHARISMA includes NEW handouts, EPIPHANY includes old handouts and is no longer current).
CHARISMA is organized by labels (another words for "links") at the bottom of the page. Look for your link and then send the page or highlight the text and copy/paste into your browser or Word, Wordpad, etc.
By the way, it doesn't matter how the text looks on my blog, it will look normal once you highlight (control-A), copy (control-C) and paste (control-V) into your own browser or some text file.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Regarding writing your important data: I hope students SPREAD THE WORD (sent to all students)
Students,
Every year I run into the same problem. And though this message may not help me that much, at least it will help other teachers in the following years. Above all, spread the word around campus so we can all live in a computer-friendly society.
YOU MUST WRITE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESSES SO THERE IS NO DOUBT WHAT EACH LETTER OR NUMERAL STANDS FOR.
That usually means you must slow down and maybe even write childishly. There is a high level of redundancy in ordinary language, dates, etc. so that, for example, no matter how poorly one writes one's name as (for example) Thomas, the reader can see it's Thomas. No matter how poorly one writes the year (if it's the current year, 2009) readers know what's supposed to be there, even though the "9" may look like a 7. (Referring to a previous year, however, is different: "He was arrested for vagrancy in 2007" must be written carefully or an important fact may be confused as 2009.
Same with domains. It's not that important to write clearly @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com because the domain is recognizable no matter how poorly one writes the "y" in yahoo.
BUT (and I hope students remember this and SPREAD THE WORD to your classmates)
You cannot risk writing poorly if there is no level of redundancy or recognition in what you write. People CANNOT GUESS what your phone number is, whether it should be a 3 or a 9, if you write poorly. This is especially the case with cell phone numbers because there are more numbers where one mistake can mean you'll never again see that good-looking boy you met on the train because you wrote your cell phone number poorly; you'll never receive that phone call for a possibly good job; you'll never be contacted by the chairman of a college department because they sent you email to jack54 when your real address is jack59 but you wrote your 4 like a 9.
Do you see my point? You MUST get into the habit of writing these important data clearly. You can scribble poorly the words, "My mother doesn't work" and most people can understand what you wrote even though several letters are poorly scripted. But they can't guess your email.
And apart from guessing, people have more important things to do than try to figure out your email address.
What does this mean when you write?
First, write slowly.
Second, write clearly.
But even if you follow the above rules you still must follow a third rule: WRITE DISTINCTIVELY. No matter how slowly you write, if you write l instead of L there's going to be problems. 1 can mean 1 or L. Same with zero. Unless you slash your o's to clearly distinguish them from 0 there will be confusion. Same with 4. Do NOT write 4 like this (but I cannot show you how to write 4 because the keyboard doesn't have that character). A four should be written like an upside down pitchfork. They're called BLOCK LETTERS, the way that children write. Same with 7. I advise always putting a slash through the 7 so people cannot confuse a 7 with a 9. 2s and Zs are another problem. Always write your Z with very straight lines so they cannot be confused with 2; besides I would put a loop before the bottom line of the two to make sure a 2 is not confused with a z.
Frankly this should be taught at the grade-school level. The entire world is now computerized. That means every day millions of email addresses are being exchanged daily. Cell phone numbers are being exchanged daily, on subways, in trains, on the street. You MUST LEARN that others cannot guess what your number or email address is. Frankly, you must act like an adult and write like a child! An adult KNOWS the other person does not KNOW what their number is.
But I must say that 99% of you wrote your addresses very well. So this email may not apply to you but to the few who didn't write their numbers well. (In a few cases I take responsibility for mistyping.) Actually, the few problems emerged in the film class, so this email probably doesn't apply to you if you're not from that class; and it probably doesn't even apply to the film class since the students who wrote their email addresses poorly will not even receive this email from me! I'll have to talk to those students in class.
Still, I'm writing this so you can spread the word. Also I'm not sure how you write your cell phone numbers to your friends or your email addresses on other occasions. So it's well worth reminding you. Do NOT write l when you can write L and clearly separate 1 from L. Do not write 0 when you can put a slash through it and make certain readers know it's zero and not oh. Do not write 4 so it looks like a 9 or even a 7. The four should be written in inverted pitchfork style. The nine should have distinctive curves in it (it should be very curvy, not lazily straight) and the 7 should have a horizontal slash to be doubly sure.
Every year I run into the same problem. And though this message may not help me that much, at least it will help other teachers in the following years. Above all, spread the word around campus so we can all live in a computer-friendly society.
YOU MUST WRITE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESSES SO THERE IS NO DOUBT WHAT EACH LETTER OR NUMERAL STANDS FOR.
That usually means you must slow down and maybe even write childishly. There is a high level of redundancy in ordinary language, dates, etc. so that, for example, no matter how poorly one writes one's name as (for example) Thomas, the reader can see it's Thomas. No matter how poorly one writes the year (if it's the current year, 2009) readers know what's supposed to be there, even though the "9" may look like a 7. (Referring to a previous year, however, is different: "He was arrested for vagrancy in 2007" must be written carefully or an important fact may be confused as 2009.
Same with domains. It's not that important to write clearly @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com because the domain is recognizable no matter how poorly one writes the "y" in yahoo.
BUT (and I hope students remember this and SPREAD THE WORD to your classmates)
You cannot risk writing poorly if there is no level of redundancy or recognition in what you write. People CANNOT GUESS what your phone number is, whether it should be a 3 or a 9, if you write poorly. This is especially the case with cell phone numbers because there are more numbers where one mistake can mean you'll never again see that good-looking boy you met on the train because you wrote your cell phone number poorly; you'll never receive that phone call for a possibly good job; you'll never be contacted by the chairman of a college department because they sent you email to jack54 when your real address is jack59 but you wrote your 4 like a 9.
Do you see my point? You MUST get into the habit of writing these important data clearly. You can scribble poorly the words, "My mother doesn't work" and most people can understand what you wrote even though several letters are poorly scripted. But they can't guess your email.
And apart from guessing, people have more important things to do than try to figure out your email address.
What does this mean when you write?
First, write slowly.
Second, write clearly.
But even if you follow the above rules you still must follow a third rule: WRITE DISTINCTIVELY. No matter how slowly you write, if you write l instead of L there's going to be problems. 1 can mean 1 or L. Same with zero. Unless you slash your o's to clearly distinguish them from 0 there will be confusion. Same with 4. Do NOT write 4 like this (but I cannot show you how to write 4 because the keyboard doesn't have that character). A four should be written like an upside down pitchfork. They're called BLOCK LETTERS, the way that children write. Same with 7. I advise always putting a slash through the 7 so people cannot confuse a 7 with a 9. 2s and Zs are another problem. Always write your Z with very straight lines so they cannot be confused with 2; besides I would put a loop before the bottom line of the two to make sure a 2 is not confused with a z.
Frankly this should be taught at the grade-school level. The entire world is now computerized. That means every day millions of email addresses are being exchanged daily. Cell phone numbers are being exchanged daily, on subways, in trains, on the street. You MUST LEARN that others cannot guess what your number or email address is. Frankly, you must act like an adult and write like a child! An adult KNOWS the other person does not KNOW what their number is.
But I must say that 99% of you wrote your addresses very well. So this email may not apply to you but to the few who didn't write their numbers well. (In a few cases I take responsibility for mistyping.) Actually, the few problems emerged in the film class, so this email probably doesn't apply to you if you're not from that class; and it probably doesn't even apply to the film class since the students who wrote their email addresses poorly will not even receive this email from me! I'll have to talk to those students in class.
Still, I'm writing this so you can spread the word. Also I'm not sure how you write your cell phone numbers to your friends or your email addresses on other occasions. So it's well worth reminding you. Do NOT write l when you can write L and clearly separate 1 from L. Do not write 0 when you can put a slash through it and make certain readers know it's zero and not oh. Do not write 4 so it looks like a 9 or even a 7. The four should be written in inverted pitchfork style. The nine should have distinctive curves in it (it should be very curvy, not lazily straight) and the 7 should have a horizontal slash to be doubly sure.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Semester Schedule (this may be of use to all students)
This schedule is from the NCKU web pages (www.ncku.edu.tw). I printed it up highlighting the key class dates. I included only up to the beginning of the 2d semester, though the schedule is complete on the web pages. This abbreviated copy, though, may be useful.
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