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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Wow, that was inappropriate- wonder if he had warned the student beforehand. Weird that there was no reponse from the students. Dude needs to work on his delivery skills, that's for sure. He couldn't seem to formulate a complete sentence, and he was moving all over the place. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I was once teaching a class of teenagers, and a girl had her phone out typing a text message. I told her, very firmly, to put it away, and she sped up her typing to finish the message. It was one of those phones that slide open, so I leaned over and hit the top of it pretty hard, closing it for her. The class freaked out- maybe it was because I had the audacity to interrupt her text messaging (not sure why).
Regardless of why though, if my closing a phone caused a stir in my class, imagine what smashing a phone would do- the class would be absolutely shocked. In this video they seemed pretty calm. I'm skeptical... |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
| He couldn't seem to formulate a complete sentence, and he was moving all over the place. |
maybe the cell phone had something to do with distracting him?
No way was this staged. If it were staged, they wouldn't forget to give reactions.
Reason you don't see a reaction from anyone is what happens when a large amount of people are in a room together. Like the famous rape case in the 80's in front of an NYC apartment building where up to 100 people watch, but not a single person called the cops.
Or the Yes Men:
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Andy delivers an alarming Powerpoint lecture about removing hindrances to free trade. He suggests that violence is acceptable in banana trade so long as prices stay low and trade is free; that the siesta in Spain and the long lunch in Italy should be outlawed in the name of standardized business hours; and that a �free market� in democracy should be encouraged by allowing the sale of votes directly to the highest bidder through Voteauction.com.
Some audience members are intrigued, and ask interesting questions; some, however, are dismayed by the insults to Italians, and Andy must explain that he is simply being more frank than the WTO usually is, and is presenting its message more clearly than normal. No one objects to Dr. Bichlbauer's scheme for American voting; perhaps they are just being polite?
Even after a luncheon in which Andy defends the free-market character of Hitler�s economic policy, there is no substantial response. Perhaps they simply don�t want to challenge the most powerful man in the room?
To elicit more sincere responses, Ryan returns as journalist after shaving off his beard and most of his hair; the idea is that the delegates will feel comfortable speaking frankly with him.
Ryan arrives back at the conference center and announces to various people he recognizes from the lecture that Dr. Andreas Bichlbauer was pied as he was leaving the conference. Ryan then asks if they remember anything odd about the lecture that might have merited such an attack. But even under cross examination of an �impartial journalist,� almost no one can remember anything weird about the lecture. |
http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/salzburg/index.shtml
This is how large groups of people act. A type of mob mentality syndrome. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought he looked like a self-important twit. And an awful lecturer. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Good for him! Extremely rude on the students behalf. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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The student's cellphone ring was WAY too loud. Why did he set it that loud, and why didn't he shut off his phone before the lecture began? Why did he continue talking rather than shut it off? If the call was so urgent, why didn't he leave the lecture hall instead of sit there chatting in the front row?
And why is that professor/TA such as twerpy-looking sloppy dresser?
Beyond those questions, this video interested me not at all. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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This has come up before.
How to handle mobile phones in class
Funny how it got no responses at all, but this thread has already turned into a two-pager. I guess being a co-leader of the clique has its benefits. |
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SirFink
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Why was someone filming that to begin with? Was it really real actual true reality? |
I doubt it. Why did the camera man focus on the cellphone guy? Did he know that was going to happen? Pretty scripted if you ask me. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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If this is a true event there was probably other occurencesd befor ethat event that made him do that.
Such things do not go unwarned. |
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Jeju Rocks
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| The thing I wanna know is, who was the caller? |
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re:cursive
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| Staged. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| Len8 wrote: |
| He's a little dood too. If he did that here with some of the students he'd get beat up after class. Wouldn't put it past some of the students in that class to jump him in the hall way as well. Put on some of those movie masks or whatever and stick it to him. |
i think most people who are smart enough to get into college are probably smart enough to be scared of getting expelled.
i back what that prof did 100%. unless the kid jumped up and said "oh sorry, i'm so stupid", he deserved to get his shit smashed.
"oh, i'll let you get that. let 'em know... just answer, and say 'oh hi, i'm an 4sshole, i forgot to turn my phone off'... how do people not know anymore? maybe, within the first couple of months, after cellphones came out, i can understand that... "ooh... sorry, heh heh heh" but it's been FUCKING years. figure it out, it's a button." -david cross vs. audience member |
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MantisBot
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Location: Itaewon, Seoul, SK
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| Moldy Rutabaga wrote: |
Hehe-- I'd love to do that in my class. But I doubt this clip wasn't staged-- why isn't there any audible shock from the students?
Ken:> |
Oh, there was shock. They went completely silent after he did it. Before hand you can hear people giggling in the background. |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Why the camera's sudden interest in mobile phone guy?? The camera is there, supposedly, to record the lecture. One phone rings and the camera is immediately on the phone guy. So very, very staged. |
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poker player
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: On the river
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmmmm... In the past, especially to send a message at the start of a semester I've confiscated phones for a couple of days and that sent shockwaves through the class but this thread gives me an idea. I've got an old useless phone I've never bothered to junk. Think I'm going to take it to class in my briefcase and next time I take a phone from a student take the confiscated phone to the front pull a switcheroo and smash the old phone. That should be good for a reaction. But then considering that I'm not going to renew my contract and will be heading home at the end of the semester, maybe I'll just use the original phone. That should be good for an even better reaction. Maybe even set up my camera to record it. GOD, this country must be getting to me |
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