Brickey

I should write stuff about my kids, right?  That's the purpose of this thing, right?  They are cute.  Frank lost a tooth.  In his words, a kid in his class poked him in the mouth and knocked it out.  At least this time there is evidence that the tooth existed, he brought it home in a little envelope.  Apparently, at our house we don't lose teeth in the usual "wiggle it until it falls out" kind of way.  We lose them in toilets (possibly?) or other children poke them out unintentionally.  Whatever.  I'm just glad I remembered it was under his pillow before I went to sleep.  (Missed that the first two times...)  Elise is Elise.  I'm so tired of hearing, "I need a friend over..." but at least when we find a play companion for her she allows me to accomplish something and she doesn't try to hang all over me the entire time I'm doing it.  There.  I did my duty, right?  I discussed my children. 

Now we can get on  to the juicy stuff:  Dixie College.  At times I find myself pleasantly surprised.  While I don't relish the busy work, I have to say that most of my education courses are, well I don't want to say informative, but something close to that.  Two of my professors I would say are excellent.  Both have been at Dixie College for less than two years, and I'm not sure what that means exactly, but I think it might be pertinent.  My third professor is pretty good too, but the level of difficulty of the class is so outrageously low that it is almost incomprehensible.  Really.  She'll show a power point listing the five things we spent the class time discussing, then she'll turn it off and give us a quiz to list the five things we talked about.  Sometimes she only asks us to list two of the five things we talked about. 

The online classes blow my mind.  Here's a little snippit from the online discussion in my Psychology class:  "The difference between mammals and humans is that the human brain is continuously evolving, which has resulted in a much larger frontal lobe."  That's right folks.  There is actually a person in my class who thinks that the difference between mammals and humans is that human brains are evolving.  Umm, I don't even know where to start.  Does she know humans are mammals?  Does she realize that other mammals also evolve and that evolution doesn't just apply to humans?  These are the things I have to read every week, and I am required to comment back to two other people's thoughts.  I spend a great deal of time trying to find something intelligent to comment on, as I don't think the professor is looking for the "how stupid could you be" type of comments.

In my other online class (Technology and Education, or something like that), our assignment for the week was to create a rough framework for a blog.  We weren't actually assigned to put any real information on the blog, just basically a simple menu along the top.  That's it.  The instructions were so explicit that I'm pretty sure Frank could have done it in about 10 minutes.  All right, so easy assignment, no big deal.  It's nice to have a super easy week in that class, except wait!  She wants us to critique another person's blog.  Does she realize that these things have no content?  What am I supposed to say, "Umm, it looks nice, but I really would have chosen a different font for your name across the top."   or maybe, "You should really look through the templates again and consider choosing a different one.  The one you chose, with the sunset, really doesn't scream education to me."  Seriously.  What I am I supposed to say?  They all look the same, except with a different color scheme and font.  There's nothing to critique.  And it was so easy that no one screwed it up.  We can't even say "Try again, you forgot to click on 'new page'."  How can this possibly be a college level course that is worth three credits?

Anyway, enough of a rant.  Back to the busy work.