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Monthly Archives: July 2011

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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Project Management for Academics – An Introduction

July 18, 2011

One of the interesting things that comes with a 20 year pre-PhD career is experience in  areas that most academics …

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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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7 tips for making sure your lecture’s aren’t deadly

July 11, 2011

Despite extensive discussion in education circles, the lecture is alive and well in college classrooms.  Constructivism is all well and …

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Developing a new course: 10 questions to ask yourself

July 6, 2011

One part of holding a PhD is teaching, and part of teaching is developing a new course.  Now, I use …

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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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