Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I really have to come up with an alternative for the students to getting back their laboratory notebooks from me after they have submitted them, just so they could make their reports.

The deductions (and the ultimate threat of not getting any grade at all for the notebook if they don't return it before I start computing their final grades) isn't working all that well.

And it really stinks of lack of preparation on their part when they keep saying the class ends too late for them to photocopy their notebook, when it would be just as easy for them to have a rough draft of their data in another notebook, then transfer it to their final submission when done.

Is that what I have to do? Require them to have two notebooks, only one of which has to be submitted to the teacher?

Yeah, that's another experiment that has to be tried for next term.

The same is true with printing out the report with blank spaces for the drawings, the tables, graphs and circuits to be filled in by hand.

That's so unprofessional! They have all these tools such as spreadsheets and other drawing software to use! Is that how they would submit reports when they're already graduated and working?

Yes, it gives the teacher the clear indication that they didn't copy it from another student, but it's so smacks of last minute-ness!

What if I also require them to just submit an electronic copy of their preliminary lab report, complete with drawings and graphs made with other software and just cut and paste?

It's better than some other students who take pictures of their notebook pages, copy and paste it to their report, then print it out.

Session 2111 are still all coasting and promising themselves they'll change attitude when they actually get paid for what they have to do. Class dismissed.