{"id":1515,"date":"2004-09-09T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T12:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/09\/09\/students_use_lectures_to_sleep_eat_and_text"},"modified":"2004-09-09T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T12:09:52","slug":"students_use_lectures_to_sleep_eat_and_text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/09\/09\/students_use_lectures_to_sleep_eat_and_text","title":{"rendered":"Students use lectures to sleep, eat and text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/students\/news\/story\/0,12891,1300735,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704\">The Guardian today reveals<\/a> that more than one in four students admit to sleeping during lecture times, 63% have sent text messages, and 25% were dissatisfied with the standard of teaching, according to an Opinionpanel Research poll.  I have to say, though that this information, gleaned from the first couple of paragraphs, sounds a lot less bad than the headline, which suggests that this is what most students think lectures are for!<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, I&#8217;m using this to test out Ecto, a desktop MT client for the Mac.  It&#8217;s a shareware program, which means I might not be using it for longer than the trial period, but it&#8217;s certainly a well-designed program, so far.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/images\/ecto.jpg\">Here&#8217;s a picture of what it looks like.<\/a>  I found it recommended in Sams&#8217; Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours, so far the only whole book on the subject.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian today reveals that more than one in four students admit to sleeping during lecture times, 63% have sent text messages, and 25% were dissatisfied with the standard of teaching, according to an&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-or","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}