On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, R. Dan Henry wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:08:09 -0800, William Elliot
> <marsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, R. Dan Henry wrote:
> >
> >> I am putting together a list of websites that may be useful to
Algebra I
> >> and Algebra II high school students. I know a few websites I can
> >> recommend based on my own exploration, but I am interested in what
sites
> >> others consider accurate and helpful. Although I am primarily looking
> >> for sites in English, I would also be interested in knowing about
good
> >> sites in other languages, especially Spanish.
> >>
Some web sites have forums that can be more helpful than instructive
websites. To those, all of the below applies. I don't see much need for
web site extra reading, unless the quality of current text books have
deteriorated unto unprofessional. This I have noticed while tutoring,
that the texts being used by the students I was tutoring lacked the
academic quality to which I was accustomed when being in school myself.
What they lacked in quality, they attempted to compensate for with
uselessly fancy layouts.
Thus am I to conclude, what you're looking for is animated web sites?
Let us hope, that your students fail the quality described below which
I've become recently accustomed to in newsgroups. Have you been spared or
have you also noticed from your students similar mindlessness as described
below?
> >Please don't send us any students who want solution manuals, homework
> >done, won't read over their post to see if it makes any sense before
> >sending it, who expect us to read their mind because like them we of
> >course know what they're talking about, who are grammar Nazis that
> >won't punctuate properly and who abusively use abbreviations.
> >
> >For extra credit, don't send us any students who won't include problem
> >statement and other essential context in their reply, who won't clip
away
> >unneeded ****tions and who use Google newsgroups. We don't want Google
> >newsgroup users because Google, when it quotes a post, will turn
multiple
> >spaces into an obnoxiously useless sequence of a's. Go away Google and
> >don't come back until you can learn to quote a post without editing it
to
> >conform to your neo-stupid mentality.
> >
> >Now if this abundance of op****tunities to be inept isn't sufficient for
> >modern school products, ie students, there yet remains op****tunities to
> >misspell and not use a spell checker.
>
> You have assumed a great deal, none of it true. Indeed, you do not
> appear to have exercised even minimal reading comprehension or else
> cannot distinguish a newsgroup such as alt.algebra.help from a
> *website*, which is what I specific asked for recommendations regarding.
> It would be absurd to take the time to teach my students to use Usenet
> when that would take time away from the subject matter. Providing a set
> of recommended sites for additional reading or online exercises on
> points they are struggling with, however, takes only a few minutes to
> distribute a handout.
>
> Your ranting is entirely disconnected from anything in the post I
> actually made.
>
> --
> R. Dan Henry
> danhenry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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