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Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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MinnieM123 said:
Well as you said, at least you still have a job. Plus, you're safe at home and don't have to worry about driving in the storm. It's coming down heavy where I am (north of Boston) and is supposed to continue until about midnight. We're getting over a foot. :)
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Agree. In my case I'm worried that my boss might use that idiotic logic of "You did not produce" to refuse to pay me. At that moment I'm bidding adeu and I would focus on trying to sell products, sell my car to pay bills and waggle my way the best way I can.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Tuvalu said:
Just now I couldn’t get my MagicBand to unlock the door. It always takes me a few tries.
Use my phone? No thanks. You still have to hold it against the reader.
A key card? One touch and instant access.
Retro is the way to go!
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Amazon has a relatively new added pickup location in a number of different places. I use it when I need something quickly because sometimes waiting for delivery can add a day or two to the time. Anyway, I used it once before and it worked really well. It gives you two choices of retrieving your item from the outside locker. I have found each time that it seems to take a while for the machine to acknowledge what ever choice you used, but eventually does. Today I used it and again tried to scan the bar code with no apparent recognition, however, the screen changed and appeared to be asking for me to manually put in the code number. As I was looking down to find the number on my phone, the door on the machine connected to my item opened and swung open hitting me in the forehead. At my age it is hard enough trying to continue to look like a sex symbol without metal spring loaded doors slamming into my head. Fortunately, my head was bent down looking at my phone screen otherwise it might have hit my eye.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Songbird76 said:
@ajrwdwgirl , Can I ask you how you are doing testing for your remote students? I know you are doing a mix of remote and in person, but I was just wondering about it because my kids are both remote exclusively, and back when schools closed the first time, they couldn't do any testing for grades because they had no way to supervise the kids to make sure they weren't using their books or whatever. Well, now that they are closed again, the teachers feel like that HAVE to be able to give tests, which is fine, and I totally get it...they have to have something to grade on. But one of the teachers is demanding that all the kids MUST have a webcam turned on...some kids' computers aren't equipped with webcams. They HAVE to have a webcam, and she will require them to move the camera around the room so that she can see that it's not a still picture, and that they don't have cheat sheets somewhere in their rooms. And she's also telling them they will be required to download some computer program from a website that will let her see whether or not they have clicked away from the test to another window. This feels like it's going WAY too far and it's a violation of their privacy, etc. I'm uncomfortable with E downloading unknown software onto her personal computer that we don't know what it does. And I'm uncomfortable with her insisting she needs to see into our house and look around E's room. It feels creepy to me and I don't see how that's going to keep the kids from cheating. We've written to her mentor about it, and he said they had a meeting last week about privacy, but the software issue was not discussed, so he has to take it up with the administration as to what's allowed and what's not. But I'm just wondering, as it's only one teacher who is going to extremes, the other teachers aren't requiring anything extra, how are you handling it and is there any sort of protocol you have to follow from the district? Does this teacher seem reasonable to you? I get that you want to ensure kids don't cheat, but it doesn't seem like a reasonable expectation to me for parents to have to buy webcams for one test....some may not be able to afford it, or to have to download what sounds like spyware onto their computers so the teacher can see what they are doing. If the school had provided the computers and was providing the webcams, etc, it might be another story (with the exception of making them show her their rooms), but as these are personal devices, some which the whole families use, not just the one student, I'm uncomfortable with the teacher making demands of this type.
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Sorry for the late response....For testing I've done a couple things this year. When all the students were virtual I let the test be open book/open note but I gave them a time limit. If the test wasn't submitted within our class period then they would not receive any credit. At that time I knew not all my students had stable internet and making them keep their webcam on wasn't an option. I figured with the time limit they wouldn't have a chance to look everything up and some would be their own knowledge. Could some of them have cheated and worked together? Maybe but I there was only so much I could control.

With only a couple kids remote and the rest in the classroom everyone still has a time limit but remote student have to keep their webcams on with their face visible. The tests I have been using is a Google Form and it locks their Chromebook until they submit the test so they can't be on anything else but the zoom (which was running before they started) and their test. The only place the students should be looking is the screen so it is easy to see if they might be cheating if they are looking away for more than a moment. I also have the Zoom recording them too. The students in the classroom also take the test on the Google form and even though it locks them into the test too I make them turn their screens so it is visible to me, then I can see what they are doing after the test.

I have heard about high schools and universities/tech schools having students down load the app/software you mentioned. I wouldn't have students do that but I don't see any problem with students keeping their camera on during the test. All of our students have a school provided Chromebook that has a webcam built in so requiring the camera on doesn't create any problems with parents having to buy anything. Does your daughter's school provide any lap tops to students or is it reliant on the technology students already have? Like I said with the Google Form just having the student's face visible is enough to see if a student is cheating but another teacher I work with has the students put the webcam down to see the keyboard/mouse area and the area around that to see that they are typing and not flipping through stuff. I don't think I need to see around their room and into the house though, that might be extreme.

This year it is just tough. I try to do whatever I can usually to ensure there isn't cheating but this year I realize there is only so much I can do, so I talk to them about honesty & integrity of their work and just kind of hope for the best. The kids that are going to cheat will probably find a way and the kids that are honest will be honest.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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MinnieM123 said:
Oh, I had to push the dog out of the kitchen, with the broken pieces of Pyrex flying over the floor. (Pyrex really shatters!) He thought it was some sort of game that these shiny things were all over the place, and he wanted to play with the pieces. :jawdrop:

By the way, what do you put on your pot roast sandwich? (Never had one, so I'm curious.) Anyway, the pot roast and veggies came out great last night in my new pot. :hungry: Plenty left over, too! :happy:

@figmentfan423 , thanks for the tip about no metal utensils in that pot. (I had also read in the instructions to use either wooden or rubber-type tools, to not scratch it.)
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I had a Pyrex pan shatter once and I remember all the glass all over. It was a mess, plus I had a fully cooked lasagna in the pan when it shattered. I had to throw away the lasagna because of all the glass, that was super disappointing. I had to order pizza that night instead. It shattered because I put the hot Pyrex baking dish on a cookie sheet, I didn't have any free counter space so I popped it on the sheet. I heard a long crack then a pop and saw flying glass.

As for the pot roast sandwich, I'm pretty plain normally just mayo (Hellmann's), salt and pepper and maybe a slice of cheese. If I have a good gravy, which is rare because I can't seem to ever make decent gravy I might put a little of that on there.
 

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