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Top 10 no-sympathy lines, and 10 top must-answer lines
Via a friend’s recommendation (thanks, Rob!), Wisconsin-Green Bay geologist Steve Dutch’s Top 10 No-Sympathy Lines that students shouldn’t try. To balance out the professor snark, let me add a few concerns of students that faculty should always be willing to address and should, ideally, be described in the syllabus or other documents available early in […]
Distance-learning tools
It’s the start of the semester, and I’ve given up on using CMap‘s collaborative concept-mapping in my online class this semester. Ah, well. I’ve at least figured out a package of cool tools to use instead. USF uses Blackboard, which would be a very clunky tool indeed except for a few other side apps. One […]
Backround on arrests of killers of USF student
Because I only subscribe to one metro daily, I missed a story in early July that described the policework behind the arrests of three involved in the murder of Ronald Stem. It was a lucky break from a break-in close to campus that allowed the arrests, and there is still one suspect who has not […]
Addicted to teaching
I finished the syllabus for my fall online class today—finding new hot-topic readings, changing the structure of assignments somewhat, eliminating the wiki, changing what the blog is used for, creating a different type of paper assignment, and adding a separate page for orienting students to discussion (leaving heavily on Brookfield and Preskill). Blackboard is now […]
Annotation and teaching
All this Web 2.0 stuff has gotten to my head. A friend of mine has convinced me that trying to use the collaborative concept-map software CMAP would be a mistake in a masters class (which I reluctantly agreed was probable), even though I’m fairly certain there’s a reasonable application, if not in my classes. Then […]