Rant
The psychology course that i'm doing via distance is ridiculous!
It's a course in Gender Identity and Sex Roles, and I figgured I would find the subject interesting. I got a head start on the readings and did activity 1 the first day it came out. It's all online, there are no on-campus classes, so we have to communicate using the website and the dicussion forums.
Activity 1 was kinda lame. It was one of those online surveys to determine whether or not you have any tendancies towards sexism. (And the survey itself was VERY heterosexist!) After taking the survery you have to post your score and discuss. In the class of around 70 people, there were maybe 10 of us who were discussing a little, but everyone else left it to the last minute and then just posted a couple words, or just wrote something they pulled from the textbook. The prof never did comment on any of our discussions, and two days after the activity was closed she posted the marks. I got 100%, but so did everyone else who even wrote two words on the board.
A couple weeks ago i'm reading the text book and I come accross something that I need clarified, so on Jan 19th I posted a question. A legitimate question, not like all the other crap from people not knowing what's going on becuase they couldn't be arsed to read the info page. But the prof STILL hasn't answered my question, 14 days later!
And then yesterday I did activity 2. There were two links that we had to visit, an article from cbc.ca, and a youtube link. The youtube link was broken, and a few days ago someone posted on the general board that there was a problem with it, so that's why I waited a few days to complete the activity, but nothing was done about it, so I did the activity anyway (as others had been doing). The article was interesting enough, and we had to complete 2 questions on it and then post our answers/thoughts to the discussion board. (Yeah, a whole whoppin' 2 multiple choice questions, don't strain yourself folks!). The questions were messed up, with what seemed like incorrect figgures and ambiguous choices. I was not impressed.
So I posted my thoughts to the matter at hand, and then spoke a little at the end about how the quiz was messed up, and the link was broken. Well, all of a sudden the prof appears and writes me a snarky response about how the numbers were not in fact wrong (as it turns out she was right, but there was NO WAY we could have known that based on what we read, she had extra info), and that the name of the youtube video was such and such. Not even an apology that it was a broken link for days and people have ALREADY finished the activity without it. WHAT A BITCH!
Oh, and she didn't even take the time to respond to my legitimate question about chapter 3.
I am so going to the dept of distance education at MUN to file a report. This is stupid.
It's a course in Gender Identity and Sex Roles, and I figgured I would find the subject interesting. I got a head start on the readings and did activity 1 the first day it came out. It's all online, there are no on-campus classes, so we have to communicate using the website and the dicussion forums.
Activity 1 was kinda lame. It was one of those online surveys to determine whether or not you have any tendancies towards sexism. (And the survey itself was VERY heterosexist!) After taking the survery you have to post your score and discuss. In the class of around 70 people, there were maybe 10 of us who were discussing a little, but everyone else left it to the last minute and then just posted a couple words, or just wrote something they pulled from the textbook. The prof never did comment on any of our discussions, and two days after the activity was closed she posted the marks. I got 100%, but so did everyone else who even wrote two words on the board.
A couple weeks ago i'm reading the text book and I come accross something that I need clarified, so on Jan 19th I posted a question. A legitimate question, not like all the other crap from people not knowing what's going on becuase they couldn't be arsed to read the info page. But the prof STILL hasn't answered my question, 14 days later!
And then yesterday I did activity 2. There were two links that we had to visit, an article from cbc.ca, and a youtube link. The youtube link was broken, and a few days ago someone posted on the general board that there was a problem with it, so that's why I waited a few days to complete the activity, but nothing was done about it, so I did the activity anyway (as others had been doing). The article was interesting enough, and we had to complete 2 questions on it and then post our answers/thoughts to the discussion board. (Yeah, a whole whoppin' 2 multiple choice questions, don't strain yourself folks!). The questions were messed up, with what seemed like incorrect figgures and ambiguous choices. I was not impressed.
So I posted my thoughts to the matter at hand, and then spoke a little at the end about how the quiz was messed up, and the link was broken. Well, all of a sudden the prof appears and writes me a snarky response about how the numbers were not in fact wrong (as it turns out she was right, but there was NO WAY we could have known that based on what we read, she had extra info), and that the name of the youtube video was such and such. Not even an apology that it was a broken link for days and people have ALREADY finished the activity without it. WHAT A BITCH!
Oh, and she didn't even take the time to respond to my legitimate question about chapter 3.
I am so going to the dept of distance education at MUN to file a report. This is stupid.