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Portfolio Part: Losing a Semester of Grades
FREE WRITING: TECH NIGHTMARE
Losing a Semester of Grades
Write about the worst experience that you’ve had with technology. You could talk about an experience you had as an instructor, student, or some other time unrelated to the classroom. How did the technology fail you? How did you feel at the moment? What was your response? What did you take from the experience?
This is not necessarily pedagogical, but when I was teaching at AUC (The American university in Cairo) we used Turnitin.com and I had an entire semester of assignments (I often tried to include a lot of 100/0, meaning that just by engaging and doing something, the student got 100%) and as I was reviewing finals, the system crashed and I lost all the grades. As a result, I ALWAYS keep a paper gradebook. I feel silly because it feels like I am still stuck in the analogue world, but it feels safe.
