Sure, just after I bashed good old Dr. Halcrow yesterday on this blog, I end up using transparencies and an overhead in my first hour Comp I class. But I kept it to about 10 minutes. And I use them about once a month.
Yesterday, my students finished a rough draft of their film review. Then I gave them an editing sheet to complete in pairs. After that, I offered my students a chance at some extra credit. If they turned in their edited rough drafts to me to copy onto a transparency and use on the projector, I'd give them an additional five points on the final grade of their film review (GRADE INFLATION - I know. Plus, this is where the RU Ready program screams - don't reward the effort - reword the final product, but I have to try something with this bunch!).
This morning, I copied three of the drafts turned (but I gave the bonus points to all who submitted). Then we edited them. They were horrible and I raked them over the coals. One theme wasn't even edited! So I said, "Now whoever wrote this paper - don't have whoever you had edit it ever edit it again." Then I scrolled in the margins, "Don't let morons edit your paper!" That got a chuckle. No doubt it belittled the person who supposedly edited it, but that's a risk I'm willing to take. Then I said, "And what is almost as bad as letting that person not edit it, is not correcting these basic errors (not capitalizing "I" or switching tenses or fragments galore)!"
I ended up trashing the first edited theme pretty harshly. But it was warranted. The other two weren't as bad. I harped on the errors and noted what was superior about these last two.
Other than that, I don't know what else to do.
Oh yeah, I ended up giving my turkey plant speech to. I'm not proud, but these kids have the damned world at their fingertips, yet they are lazy and let it slip right by them. At least I'll seem pissed about it.
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