Ed-Tech people,
The semester is almost over. If you get files from your students, either via email or, I suppose, via Blackboard, be aware that there is a web site that can create corrupted files. Its purpose is to give them some extra time on the assignment. They submit it at the last minute. You try to open it, say the next day, and it fails. You contact the students. The student has now completed the assignment. The student sends it to you, saying "The computer must have eaten it." You accept it, not realizing that this is a new strategy.
Isn't that an interesting scenario?
The site that I just heard about is http://neddyy.net/docs/. I have not tried to send it a file to be corrupted. I just looked at the page and thought, "Oh, No." I still want to believe in students who want to learn. There will always be a way to get around everything.
Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu, 8-3944 or 786-250-2255
