Wrapped up assessment o papers. Yay me.
Now, I have to pack up for the weekend;
an alterations appt. up north created the early weekend.
Oh darn.
I just hope the Russian tailor isn't rude like last time.

Read two interesting articles yesterday;
one was on being a better online instructor and the other
had tips for a cool PPT idea. More on those things later.

She logs into the online system.
Clicks on the class she wants to access.
She clicks into the Dropbox area.
She sighs.
She clicks on the bottom of the list of papers,
the first student to upload his/her paper.
The iMac asks if it's okay to open the thing.
She clicks, "Open."
After making the view 200%, she sits back.
Crosses her arms.
The TITLE is interesting; it's different than others she's read.
And she's read a lot. A lot. Seriously. A lot.
The INTRO has one spelling error, but she overlooks it.
Then suddenly...
the word YOU is everywhere.
The QUOTATION MARK has been taken hostage.
And where the heck did the INFO come from? Outer space?
The aliens in her student's head told him/her to write it?
She sighs again, but heavily.
Clicks over to the Comments area.
Copies & pastes the issue.
Displays the deduction, although it pains her to do so.
Thank gawd for the RUBRIC; it's there to back up those crappy decisions.
She reads the rest of it, defeated.
The student knows better. The student is smarter than this.
Didn't they read the handout? Did she not make the handout clear enough?
At the end of the paper, the WORKS CITED page is a hodge-podge.
Of different fonts and odd punctuation.
At least he/she tried, she thinks.
The grade is placed; Save & Close is clicked.
She opens the next paper.
And sighs.

What an interesting & yummy breakfast... saw in Bethenny's book a recipe for a Brown Rice Breakfast, so as I watched Conan last night, I cooked some up and threw three cups of it in the fridge. After my long morning walk, I started up some coffee and took out the brown rice.

In a microwave-able bowl:
1/2 C cooked brown rice
1/4 C soymilk or rice milk or milk-milk
A little bit of sliced almonds, raisins (can use cranberries too), cinnamon & syrup (I have the sugar-free maple).

Placed the bowl in the microwave for 1 min. (Supposed to cook on stove, but eh.)
Very filling & flavorful! And I have 2.5 more cups in the fridge for the rest of the week/snacks/etc.

With coffee, water, and grapefruit juice at hand, I venture into assessing last week's assignments.