April 28, 2008
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Note to self: In the English 120 Online letter that I send out at the beginning of the semester, remind them that they can click on their grade to see comments from me. They should be taught this in the Bits & Bytes Intro session, but I don’t think they are. Then they send me questions via email that were already answered in those comment boxes & I have to login to find out what I wrote.
Also, I realized this morning that the reason I may have gotten the “she doesn’t answer my emails” comments in my online student evals was because I don’t respond to emails filled with errors. I thought I placed that in ALL of my syllabi, but maybe not? Seriously, not only do I have no idea who some students are (based solely on their goofy email addresses) but I also get uncapitalized, misspelled emails. Since I teach them English, shouldn’t that be of concern when they email me? They should remember who their audience is; this is also the reason I have no problem with crazy IM/text abbreviations because I am not their audience for that sort of communication.
I suppose I have started off today on the bad side of … my email inbox.
