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There is no easter bunny.
Oh wait. No.
So how do you avoid the inevitable "I emailed it to you, you must have lost it?"
Answers:
First day of class's assignment should include emailing the teacher. As well, print off the email that they sent to verify they emailed you. Several of our teachers used this and used it against students who claimed the teacher cannot get their emails, nor did they try to email the teacher to get a failure notice.
Put a clause in the syllabus that states "If I don't receive your project via email then you never sent it. Failure of computers and/or emails is not an acceptable answer for the absence of an assignment." Again, this is canon when it comes to digital tech at AiC (mah skuul). This puts the blame on students.
If a student claims they emailed you, have them show you their email they sent. The guilty party will usually say "I delete my sent email." Again, a teacher pulled this on a kid during a class. And everyone KNEW he was bullshitting. The kid called the teacher's bluff and showed teacher his email account and guess what? There were myspace confirmations and other unimportant emails still in the account from the day they sent it but no email to the teacher. This is the proverbial cookie jar.
A 2x4 flat up against the infidel student. No explanation needed.
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The bigfoot thing, as other claims of tangible proof of the damn thing, was a hoax to get people to pay for tours and to plug a worthless internet podcast. Dissapointment...
Oh wait. No.
So how do you avoid the inevitable "I emailed it to you, you must have lost it?"
Answers:
First day of class's assignment should include emailing the teacher. As well, print off the email that they sent to verify they emailed you. Several of our teachers used this and used it against students who claimed the teacher cannot get their emails, nor did they try to email the teacher to get a failure notice.
Put a clause in the syllabus that states "If I don't receive your project via email then you never sent it. Failure of computers and/or emails is not an acceptable answer for the absence of an assignment." Again, this is canon when it comes to digital tech at AiC (mah skuul). This puts the blame on students.
If a student claims they emailed you, have them show you their email they sent. The guilty party will usually say "I delete my sent email." Again, a teacher pulled this on a kid during a class. And everyone KNEW he was bullshitting. The kid called the teacher's bluff and showed teacher his email account and guess what? There were myspace confirmations and other unimportant emails still in the account from the day they sent it but no email to the teacher. This is the proverbial cookie jar.
A 2x4 flat up against the infidel student. No explanation needed.
~~~~
The bigfoot thing, as other claims of tangible proof of the damn thing, was a hoax to get people to pay for tours and to plug a worthless internet podcast. Dissapointment...
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