It is a fitting irony that of all my many blogs, this is the only one that gets spam comments every day (all those online essay-writing and/or plagiarism services...), so I am shutting off new co...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2015/10/coursera-my-blog-spam-trap.html
The Fantasy-SciFi debacle continues; I thought I was done writing at this blog, but I feel obliged to write up a note here about the postscript to the course. Some weeks after the course was fini...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/11/postscriptum-grading-debacle.html
Something about the Coursera terms-of-service came up in a discussion at Google+ today which I thought would be worth noting here for future reference. Here is the quote from the Coursera TOS w...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/coursera-tos-all-your-essay-are-belong.html
I keep learning new things at this course although they are not exactly what I expected to learn about. One thing I have gotten to observe over the past few weeks is how there are many stude...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/teacher-authority-and-student.html
After my experience at the Coursera discussion boards, this really made me laugh (it's making the rounds at Google+ today):
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/words-of-cartoon-wisdom.html
I hope this will be my last post about plagiarism in the Coursera class (now that I have written my final essay, I feel such a sense of relief - since the worst possible score any essay, even a p...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/final-thoughts-about-plagiarism.html
I've submitted my final essay and, after my peer responses next week, I'll be done with the class. So, I'll have some final reflections when that is done... but for now, I am very glad to have en...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-final-essay-edgar-rice-burroughs.html
As I mentioned, I'm only writing essays and doing peer review for the remaining four weeks of the class. I just got my robomail (verbatim identical every week), telling me my peer essays are read...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/plagiarism-continues.html
I would be really curious to know how Coursera is going to judge the success or failure of this class. What criteria will they use? From my perspective as a student, I realized this weekend that ...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/done-more-or-less.html
Below is something I posted over at the Coursera discussion board. I've always allowed anonymous comments on my blog posts and never had a problem with it, but then there usually are not that man...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/thoughts-on-anonymity.html
For the first time so far, I actually ENJOYED writing the perfunctory 320-worrd essay for class this week. In part, this was because Invisible Man was a wild book to read, full of surprises, hila...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/09/invisible-man-memento-mori-memento.html
The poor communication continues to really hamper the Coursera Fantasy-SciFi course. The most recent announcement on the course homepage dates to August 14, over two weeks ago - in the meantime, ...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-wiki-and-more-communication-problems.html
Below is a discussion board thread I just created at the course discussion board; since it is something substantial, I thought I would repost it here also. Since there has been a lot of discuss...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/more-on-subject-of-college-writing.html
As a reward for having dutifully written four analytical essays, I chose to do something creative for the fifth submission. I was very pleased that I was able to include the images! The WYSIWYG e...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-oval-portrait-2012.html
The discussion boards on Thursday have become something like a "who got the worst peer feedback?" contest. This has been going on for several weeks now, so I thought I would blog about it here. I...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/continuing-problems-with-peer-feedback.html
I am glad that Coursera is willing to introduce fixes into an ongoing class! Today I noticed that there is an automated announcement on the course homepage to alert people to upcoming deadlines, ...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/slowly-but-surely.html
I've mentioned before that I think it would be so much better for people to have a writing portfolio, rather than just a disjointed series of essays. Even if the essays are not on related topics,...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/my-essay-portfolio-our-mirror-selves.html
As I've mentioned previously, I was hoping to find a common theme to use to make my mini-essays for the class into a coherent piece of writing, using each essay to explore the theme from a differ...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/mirror-mirror-on-wall.html
I mentioned in an earlier post how I was really distressed that the main piece of advice circulating on the discussion boards for the course was that people without any special training or unders...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-evils-of-plagtracker.html
When I read Shelley's Frankenstein (I had never read it before!), I knew instantly that I wanted to write about the monster discovering those books in the woods. So, I've written my essay (see be...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/reading-is-fundamental.html
My own classes have started (it's the pre-start, I guess you could call it - classes start officially August 20, but I'm glad for people to get a head start, so about half the students are workin...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/thoughts-about-college-writing-not-just.html
In a previous post, I had mentioned a boilerplate email from the teaching assistant for our course which thanked us for all our great contributions at the discussion boards, but didn't respond t...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/uncommunicative-communication.html
Okay, in the post about the virtual trash can , I promised to say something about the student feedback system, since that is indeed one of the remarkable and more interesting features of the clas...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/peer-feedback-good-bad-and-ugly.html
In my previous post about decorating the virtual classroom , I promised a post about content creation and curation (yeah, I thought I would do it sooner, but too much interesting conversation at ...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/creation-curation-and-virtual-trash-can.html
Okay, having gotten the awful plagiarism thing out of the way , in this post I will present a tale of two online classrooms... but first I want to remind everybody of the general contrast between...
http://courserafantasy.blogspot.com/2012/08/whats-on-walls-of-your-online-classroom.html