1st lecture of the new term today for my Web Technologies module. I tried a novel (insane?) trick today that I'd been toying with last year but hadn't got around to: After the break, when the talking began to increase and the first mobile phone rang I stopped talking and wandered up to the young lady whose phone was ringing, asked if I could borrow it and (without doing-so) pulled out of my pocket another phone that I'd bought off eBay for the purpose (�2 well spent!) I then threw my phone towards the front of the lecture theatre where it smashed apart with a loud crash. <grin> it had shock value if nothing else (& I was careful to lob it over the heads of the class and check that no-one was near the crash site. Probably a health and safety violation all the same...) I've no idea if my subsequent plea to turn off mobile phones will have more weight this year (or have I just inadvertently challenged the class to disobey?!) but they seemed attentive for the latter half of the 2 hour lecture period, which is unusual in itself. Now what to do next week?
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Brilliant! What a good way to deal with blinking mobile phones in class. p.s. it's taken me ages to find a blog about lecturing in the UK - and I've finally found yours. I'm thinking about starting my own, but not sure whether to or not...
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