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Category Archives: Technology

Technology updates…Keynote Projecting issues

September 21, 2011

It’s been a while, and we are now about a month into the semester.  Time to update on how my …

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Clicker technology without hardware

August 15, 2011

One of the best ways to check student understanding of your topic is using some type of interactive knowledge check. …

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A few stats about student technology usage

August 15, 2011

I’ve been quite for the last couple of weeks while I tried to get ready for the new semester. I …

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New job, new computer

July 23, 2011

In the comments section of the prior post, Katie asked for advice on computer platforms.  She is just starting at …

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Teaching Technology – an update

July 21, 2011

About a month ago I posted this article on how I was fed up with all the paper my stats …

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Computer skills for graduate students (and professors)

July 14, 2011

Computing for Psychologists has a great post on Computing skills for (psychology) students, most of which I think applies to …

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Changing the technology I use to teach

June 19, 2011

Last week I was beginning the process of preparing for next semester.  I had some level of dissatisfaction with the …

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A simple object lesson…

April 17, 2011

In case you were wondering if I was being paranoid in my last post about managing drafts, and in my …

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A new tool to tighten up your writing

November 21, 2010

One of the comments I received during my proposal review was that I have a wordy style and needed to …

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Mendeley, Part II

November 3, 2010

I’m as bad as anyone else.  Sometimes procrastination just happens, and some of it happened this weekend.  I started playing …

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Stats with Cats: The Domesticated Guide to Statistics, Models, Graphs, and Other Breeds of Data Analysis

Handbook of Educational Data Mining (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Fiction)

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