Paul Camp

Member since: May 25th, 2006

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Top Ten Most Badass Animals Native to the USA (Gadling)

Nov 13th 2009 6:08PM If a spider isn't an animal, what the hell is it? Your remaining choices are: plant, bacteria, fungus or yeast.

VIDEO: Great Curb Your Enthusiasm Moments (PopEater)

Sep 19th 2009 1:03PM This show is funny in the same sense that hitting your thumb instead of the nail is funny. Cringing is not humor.

Jane After Dark: I'm still watching The Wire (AOL TV)

Jun 8th 2009 7:07PM The first episode of season 2 is the finest hour of dramatic television I've ever seen -- all character development with one tiny increment of plot literally in the last 5 seconds.

ER: The longest goodbye in television history just got longer (AOL TV)

Jan 11th 2009 3:40PM God almighty, make it die!

What do you call your remote? (AOL TV)

Jun 24th 2008 12:09PM I call mine "Where the f**k are you?"

We call shenanigans: WiFi "allergies" do not exist, kiddies (Download Squad)

May 30th 2008 9:33AM I hear aluminum foil keeps the beams out of your head.

Newsweek examines if Seinfeld still holds up after ten years (AOL TV)

May 6th 2008 4:59PM I didn't laugh at the first runs.

Larry David specializes in Shout Humor. I don't like shows that shout at me. I get increasingly irritated as they go by.

And you know if any of those idiots were my friends, I'd kill myself.

But that's just me. The wife loves it.

Professor on a crusade to stop Google and Wikipedia in the classroom (Download Squad)

Jan 18th 2008 9:35AM And having said that, I should also say a couple of other things. First, in my astronomy class, I do allow the use of Wikipedia et. al. to generate ideas and identify resources for projects. But by the time they hand in the final version, they'd better be relying exclusively on primary sources. Second, students are less motivated by grades when there are many components of a course that go into a grade. When I incorporate exams, recitation, labs, homework and projects into a course grade, it is easy to convince oneself that it will be ok to let one component slide and make it up elsewhere. That never works, but it always happens.

Professor on a crusade to stop Google and Wikipedia in the classroom (Download Squad)

Jan 18th 2008 9:31AM I just failed the bulk of my physics students on a project because all they did was Google up a commercial design and give a book report on it. Grades can only go so far. When students are happy (or at least will go along) with the grade they get, that's the end of the motivation. The problem is two fold -- students don't know what to do in an independent project (because they never had to do it in high school), and they've come to rely on Wikipedia and the like to enable them to throw something acceptable together at the last minute. It was permissible in high school, and they actually get offended when their grade suffers.