a meme (yes, it's marking season) from fjm

[woolymonkey]

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's Parker ...she likes money and cereal." I'd love it if everyone who's friended me did this. (Yes, even you people who I know really well.) Then post this in your own journal. In return, ask me anything you'd like to know about me and I'll give you an answer.

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[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

I mostly just mark in the order they were submitted. It's my way of bribing/rewarding students to get the work done in good time because I return their work in batches, earliest first.

That said, after the first assignment, there are one or two that I know tend to be incoherent, or do something very odd with the question, and I don't look at them until I've got my eye in on some more run-of-the-mill stuff. Because OU marking is also teaching, I save the really bad ones to do at the end of a marking day when I can spend some extra time on them without putting myself behind with the whole batch. If I see a student who generally knows what s/he is doing in the early batch, then I will often head for that one to get me off to a good start.