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Category Archives: Teaching

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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Student expectations

March 28, 2010

Some days it’s a bit odd being on the other side of the lectern; there are many ways in which …

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Offering Extra Credit

October 22, 2009

One thing a new teacher often faces is the question of extra credit.  This semester it has been requested by …

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Perspective: Useful thing that…

October 4, 2009

Often we are told to take a step back from things to gain some perspective.  It’s very hard when you …

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Laser-sharp focus reduces stress

September 27, 2009

We live in a world with a wealth of things to distract us: The internet and all the amazing information …

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Summer break?

August 1, 2009

Ah, the good old days as an undergrad when you got your summers off.  I wish.  Summer for a graduate …

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Interesting student quotes…

February 9, 2009

I graded 15 tests, 30 homeworks and 60 labs (including 1-2 paragraph narratives) this weekend.  I stumbled across a couple …

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Teaching; 2nd class

January 24, 2009

Thankfully the 2nd class went far better than the first. The computer was on the network so that I could …

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Off to a rocky start…

January 21, 2009

Is it a bad sign when you would drop your own class? New class room, computerized, instructor terminal was not …

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New Semesters, New Deadlines

January 19, 2009

Tomorrow the new semester begins, and I had today off from work so I spent some time thinking about what …

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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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