Gamification of the Crypto Course?
Mills Kelly’s blog post, “Teaching Students to Commit Fraud,” mentions a couple of courses (one of which was taught by Mills) that …
Clickers in the News (the Village Voice, to Be Precise)
I’m quoted in a nice article on clickers in the college classroom in the Village Voice today, “The Rise of Clickers Is …
In Which I Comment on a Session I Did Not Attend (#lilly10)
Okay, one more post on the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio back in November. I …
My Evil Plan to Save Course Evaluations (#lilly10)
More from the the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio back in November. I’m pretty sure …
Scaffolding and Strategies for Developing Information Literacy (#lilly10)
More from the the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio back in November… Easily Integrating Information …
Thoughts on Clay Shirky’s “Cognitive Surplus,” Bound (via Anthologize)
I’ve been meaning for a while to return to experimenting with Anthologize, a WordPress plug-in that allows one to turn blog posts …
Fractals, Metacognition, and the Affective Domain (#lilly10)
More from the the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio back in November… A Fractal Thinker …
The Case for Visual Thinking – Thoughts on “Visual Meetings” by David Sibbet
One of my goals over winter break is to read Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes & Idea Mapping Can Transform Group …
Some Thoughts on Teaching with Clickers (Four-Minute Video)
A few months ago, I was contacted by Rachel Wheeler, an MEd candidate in secondary education here at Vanderbilt. As part of …
The Crypto Hunt
How do you wrap up a first-year seminar on the history and mathematics of cryptography? Okay, you have your students write ten-page …