Friday, August 7, 2009

Error! Hyperlink reference not valid

They come in the cutest forms. They are funny.

Once, I was teaching this sweet girl in A-Level. Sweet and innocent. Well, in my class, she was. Outside of my class, I would not know. I gave an assignment. Simple. Just demand and factors that influence demand. She was attentive enough to know that I did suggest several ways of writing. She identified the point, explained and gave elaborative example. I should be proud of her. But she was making me laughing.

She kept talking about the demand for hard disk and the demand for floppy disk. She got the relationship right. Price drops --> customers buy more. Except that she kept talking about how people want floppy di*k. And some like hard di*k.

Please replace * with c.

It was difficult for me to correct her. So, I asked her classmates to do so. She blushed. And I had my only ever surrounded assignment on the demand for hard di*k in the market.

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How about another ex-student who copied internet articles into her diskette and then did the convenient task of copying the url from the saved files? I ended up with assignment with a full list of

Reference:

Merdith, K. Ways to save money. A://savings.html

Nordith, J. Possible savings. A://households.html

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When students handed up their assignments, I can tell which students have not been paying attention. Thank goodness this round, I am seeing less. I cannot afford too many hair to drop. My bathroom drain is collecting way too many hairdrop of mine.

I had told my students before. When I sweep my floor, I don't really find dirt. I am sweeping hairdrops.

Anyway, I am still puzzled how blur one of my students is, this round. I guess the word Error! does not mean anything to her.

2 comments:

SMuRF said...

My dear sir, please don't give such examples next time :P

Jon said...

Haha.. Why not? Unless you are saying that this is your work??

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