Things That Worry Me
If you’re reading this on January 18, 2012, you may wonder why half the Internet seems to have gone missing. Here’s a …
In-Class Ecological Footprint Data Visualization Challenge
Yesterday’s Math 216 activity brought together several of my favorite teaching ideas: challenge cycles, visual thinking, and mobile learning. We’re starting our …
Shakespeak, a BYOD Classroom Response System
Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) class response systems seem to be popping up left and right these days. BYOD systems are ones in which students …
When Statistics Is Like a Wedding
Today was the first day of spring classes here, and I’m back in the classroom after 12 months of doing other things. …
Concept Maps at the Beginning, Middle, and End
I’ve been collecting links to resources on the use of visual thinking in teaching and learning. Here are three resources that go …
Structured Twitter Assignments
Last month on ProfHacker, Mark (@samplereality) Sample described his use of Storify to collect and organize student tweets in his science fiction …
Time for Timeline
The other night I live-tweeted my first experience with Twitter’s new version of TweetDeck. In the same spirit, I’m now going to …
Copyright, Sharing, and Ethics
For most people, sharing and remixing with attribution and no commercial intent is instinctually a-okay. The above quote is from Andy Baio’s …
Tech Therapy Podcast – Barriers to Classroom Response System Adoption
Jeff Young and Warren Arbogast interviewed me the other day for the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Tech Therapy podcast. The episode, available …
Student-Faculty Course Design Partnerships (#PODHBCU)
I went to several great sessions at the joint conference of the POD Network and the HBCU Faculty Development Network in Atlanta …