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Ben Round de Bloc
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| My girlfriend wanted to kill me when she found out that I'd put out that much cash and trusted the students to pay me. We'll see how it goes... |
If you have the power to hold up their grades or not allow them into class if attendance counts until you're paid for the copies, you'll probably come out okay. If not, your girlfriend may have made a good call on this one, at least if your students are anything like ours.
This issue of selling students photocopied "packets" of materials rather than having them buy a standard textbook concerns me, because that's most likely the way our department will be going in the near future. I don't want to get stuck paying (and not getting reimbursed) for photocopied packets just to insure that students have the necessary materials to use in class. If asked my opinion (which isn't likely,) I'll suggest that the university prepare the packets in advance and include the cost as part of tuition. Then again, as slow as the university is about getting things done, it might be a lot faster (and definitely cheaper) to have students borrow a master copy and take it somewhere to be photocopied on their own. |
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ls650
Joined: 10 May 2003
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Location: British Columbia
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Ben Round de Bloc wrote: |
| I'll suggest that the university prepare the packets in advance and include the cost as part of tuition. |
Good luck getting the administration to buy into that - but maybe things are a bit different at your uni.... Here? No way.
I find that I leave packet at the library, and students can sign it out and get the photocopies made. USUALLY it works okay, but this time someone in the library screwed up (not me; I had it labelled correctly, honest!) and was handing out the wrong packet for photocopying. |
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MixtecaMike
Joined: 19 Nov 2003
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Location: Guatebad
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| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| I always collected cash in advance, then doled out the copies as required. Students who dropped out did NOT get a refund. Plus I charged 25c a copy although they cost me 20c, I explained this to the students in advance and said if they wanted to save themselves 5c a page to make their own copies. Nobody ever did. Nobody begrudged me my 25% markup either (except some of those pseudo-socialist foreigners that pop up wherever English is taught) as I was still 5c cheaper than the university copier. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| Plus I charged 25c a copy although they cost me 20c, I explained this to the students in advance and said if they wanted to save themselves 5c a page to make their own copies. Nobody ever did. Nobody begrudged me my 25% markup either |
Mexico taught you well young padwan |
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gringanic
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure if this would work in Mexico, but in the Dominican Republic we took a copy of the course packet to a local print shop (we happened to have one very close to campus) and students were all required to go get their own copy made. You'd have to trust that the print shop would hang on to your copy, but it eliminates the work on the teacher's part of getting lots of course packets made and then bringing them all to class, especially if the students don't bring their money all at the same time. |
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MixtecaMike
Joined: 19 Nov 2003
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Location: Guatebad
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| gringanic wrote: |
| I'm not sure if this would work in Mexico, ... |
This is an ideal solution, but unfortunately requires more foresight and and planning than many (most?) English teachers are prepared/capable of.
Definitely more than Mixtecamike could ever aspire to, LOL. |
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