Is this not ironic?

Another sem had just ended.

Another student had thought I was stupid.

She thought I didn't read student essays that I asked them to submit.

She thought I didn't know how to detect plagiarized papers.

She didn't remember what I taught them in our Electronic Newsroom 2 class.
Imagine this: We discussed about COPYRIGHT LAW, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY and FAIR USE. I taught them why WE SHOULD NOT STEAL OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS.

But at the end of the sem, she submitted three plagiarized papers to me: a plagiarized editorial, a plagiarized column, and a plagiarized feature.

That was the biggest insult I've ever had in my entire stay at AUF. So I gave her the biggest lesson she could ever have learned in this school. She lost her scholarship. I texted her and asked her to see me in my office. And so she did. I showed her the three papers she submitted. I showed her my comments on her papers. I gave her the exact website addresses where she got the three papers. She had no idea how I did it. Now, she realized there are things I deliberately don't teach them.

I didn't ask for any explanation from her. For me, plagiarism is not justifiable especially for someone taking AB Mass Communication.

I felt sorry for her and for myself. After all the help and support and consideration I extended to her and the entire class, she still thought I was stupid enough not to find out what she did.

Before she left she just said to me, "Ma'am, bakit ikaw pa ang naging writing teacher ko?"

Comments

Management Lessons from GUNG HO

'I must recognize that man achieves the highest degree of efficiency when he plays. If someone says he works out of loyalty to the company, he is a damned liar.' ----Soichiro Honda Founder-millionaire Honda Motor Co., Ltd. When a company fails, who should take the blame? When the workers complain, who should do some reflections, the management or the workers themselves? Hunt Stevenson, in the movie GUNG HO (means to WORK TOGETHER) , needed to do some reflections before it was too late. His failure to do some actions would result in closure of Assan Motors, thereby leaving hundreds of American laborers unemployed. According to Robert Heller, the author of the article EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY, "How the boss behaves has a profound effect on how other managers perform - and thus on the performance of the entire outfit. That's a self-evident truth, acknowledged by most people. But few bosses acknowledge the corollary: that inferior performance is partl...

Levels Earned, Lessons Learned in SHAIYA

The holy week was not really holy for me. This was time of the year when I played hard. Really played hard, as in trying to make the toon level every time I logged in . And to help my toon level up, even my husband and my daughter would play with her. This year, my toon is DanieGanda. Danie, for the record, is my daughter's nick name. But I thought of adding the word "Ganda," which is a tagalog term for Beauty. DanieGanda is a human priest in the normal mode. As the rule in Shaiya, a player won't be able to create a character in the hard mode [here, toons are stronger] without first reaching level 40 in the normal mode, which is a level lower than HM. When DanieGanda started, she was power leveled by king-kruller, whom DanieGanda met while my daughter was playing the toon. King_kruller was als o Danie's first friend in Shaiya. At the moment, he's already level 58, UM. The experience was good for Danie was able to meet players from different walks o...

My SHAIYA battle for a week

A duo with -kamikaze- MMORPG. Online games. Virtual world. SHAIYA. The past holy week signaled the beginning and end of my battle in the virtual world. I started playing an MMORPG for a week -- trying to level up my character named SexySteffi in an online game known to players as SHAIYA . It wasn't as sophisticated as Wow but most things are basically the same. The best parts would be killing monsters to level up and killing darkies to get higher ranks. Another good thing about online games like SHAIYA is the opportunity to talk to people or gamers from different parts of the world. I've met gamers from Columbia, Chile, Texas, Australia, Canada, etc. Gamers really come from different walks of life. Some are young, some old, some married, some single, some just fooling around, some serious about leveling up. As a priest, SexySteffi is in demand in the game :-) Some players would always invite her to a party so that they could conquer the monsters without getting killed a...

My Socially Constructed Reality

Search This Blog