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Using Google appointment slots
I'm not on the bleeding edge of ed tech, but I'm happy to steal use what others create. I've been using an online calendar service to schedule student appointments for a few years, but given my concerns about some glitches recently and the appearance of a new Google appointment-slot capacity inside Google Calendar, I'm switching. […]
Gaming Florida education policy
I need to write about this a little more at length after fiddling with it some more, but this morning I put my summer students in the shoes of school board members having to make high stakes decisions month after month, often with insufficient funds and with people likely to be upset no matter what […]
Timed emails through Blackboard announcements and Polleverywhere
Two tips for the savvy instructor from the clueless professor: 1) Timed emails. I just came across one redeeming feature of Blackboard (the "learning management system" that my university uses): I can use the announcements feature to time an email to students in a course. At least at USF, faculty can send a copy of […]
Farewell to Anchovy
My colleagues and I are saying goodbye this summer to the fictional suburb of Anchovy, Columbia, where we set a number of simulations/case studies over the past half decade. These were written for our bread-and-butter undergraduate course to help students satisfy the state's older list of competencies for new teachers, and now that the competencies […]
I am the most boring teacher, to me
Thank goodness for new "easy to use" programs to record lectures, and we hates it. Hates it. FOREVER! A week ago, this part of Florida saw nine tornadoes on a day of severe thunderstorms, and only a small part of my T-Th morning class came. This Tuesday, another line of severe thunderstorms in the morning. […]