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Looks good on paper

December 30, 2011

In the course of my PhD program I took upwards of 18 credits of research methods classes: Introducation to Statistics …

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Students…

November 1, 2011

I have to gripe for a moment about undergrads. I teach 1 section of intro to statistics and 2 online …

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Unintended consequences of going paperless

September 29, 2011

As has been mentioned by a fellow blogger who is also attempting to go paperless this semester, one of the …

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Interesting posts from other blogs…

September 23, 2011

A couple of other blogs had posts this week that caught my attention and that I wanted to share.  Both …

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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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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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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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