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MSM rides again!
It just makes me so proud to see the kids grow up!
Back last October, when Get on the Bus itself was just a tot, it was part of an online journalism first when the Carnival of Education was hosted here. Until that week, as far as I have been able to tell, a mainstream media (MSM) website had never hosted an a blogging carnival.
So now the MSM edublogging new kid on the block, School Me! at the LA Times, becomes just the second MSM site to host the Carnival of Education. School Me! authors Bob Sipchen and Janine Kahn do it up right, too, with their signature flair — they are calling it the “jukebox edition” of the carnival, complete with song clips.
Unfortunately, my serious post about the death of a promising high school student is sort of the downer of this carnival, necessitating the only “sad song.”
Thankfully, Mamacita over at Weekly Scheiss bails me out with a humorous post about the website Rate My Professor (there’s also Rate My Teacher for high schools).
Mamacita pulls out some of the funniest comments students have left while rating their professors. For a quick taste, here are a few of my favorites:
“His class was like milk, it was good for 2 weeks.”
“Three of my friends got A’s in his class and my friends are dumb.”
“Instant amnesia walking into this class. I swear he breathes sleeping gas.”
“She hates you already.”
Some teachers detest these sites, I know, and for good reason. A vengeful student could really slander a teacher with insulting or false comments. But when I read these sites, the kids seem to try to be honest and fair most of the time, even if they can be somewhat brutal.
Still, I find a lot of humor in it, and a prospective student just might find some useful information.
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By Oldprof
July 13, 2006 8:53 AM | Link to this
Speaking as someone who’s been assessed on www.ratemyprof.com—yes, generally the students are fair, but prospective students (and anyone else) should automatically understand that the sample of responses is WAY unreliable: out of hundreds of students, my ratings total in the single digits. Obviously the only students who will rate are (a) those that love you (b) those that hate you (c) those who are compulsive survey-takers and rating-givers. The funniest part for me is that my rating has a little red chile pepper next to it, which means “hot”—proving that my students either have a riotous sense of humor or they’re all blind. Or both…By Janine Kahn
July 13, 2006 12:41 AM | Link to this
Hi Scott, Thanks for the mention! Any chance you could change the carnival link to: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/schoolme/2006/07/jukebox_carniva.html ? Typepad crashed, and the old carnival link is wonky. Thanks!