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Tuesday, 18 November 2003

"I teach for free; they pay me to do the grading."

What a great quote.

Found in the comments of an Invisible Adjunct post on grading; attributed to someone’s “senior colleague.”

(IA, you need permalinks for your comments. I’m going to post a tutorial on that this week, since it’s easy to do in MT if you know which tags to put into the templates.)

Posted at 1:37 PM in: teaching
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Comment from Invisible Adjunct on November 18, 2003 1:43 PM (Permalink to Comment)

Permalinks for comments would be nifty. I look forward to your tutorial.


Comment from Shelley on November 18, 2003 2:17 PM (Permalink to Comment)

Actually, several folks have done how-tos on comments and permalinks (such as http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/technology/comment_how_to.htm ). Still, have fun.


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