Experiments in Class Participation – An Update on My Cryptography Course
Back in early August here on the blog, I described a few “experiments” in more public class participation I planned to implement …
Hitting the Road: Keynotes at Lilly Conference, Turning Users Conferences
If you’re heading to the Turning Technologies User Conference at Harvard University in October or the Lilly Conference at Miami University in …
Better Bookmarking
Last week, ProfHacker featured another guest post of mine, “Social Bookmarking Even When You Don’t Feel Social: Why I Use Delicious.” I …
Going Nonlinear in PowerPoint, Agile Teaching, and CYOA
I received an email last week from Bill Goffe who teaches economics at SUNY-Oswego (and contributed to this great guide to teaching …
A Prezi on Visual Presentations and Classroom Response Systems
On Friday, I was invited to give a presentation to DigitalVU, a group of web developers and other technology folks at my …
Generosity and Selfishness in Small Groups: Dealing with the Free Rider Problem
More thoughts inspired by Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age… In Chapter 4 (“Opportunity”) Shirky …
Novices, Experts, Forests, and Trees – Lessons from the Back of the Napkin
Back in June (which feels so very long ago), I did a series of posts on applications to teaching from Dan Roam’s …
How File Sharing Is Spiteful but Cheating through Facebook Isn’t So Bad
Here’s the next installment in my series (parts one, two, three, and four) on Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and …
The Face-to-Face Lecture, Only Accidentally Valuable? Lessons from Cognitive Surplus
Here’s the next installment in my series (parts one, two, and three) on Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity …
Teaching Mathematics with Classroom Response Systems
Earlier this week, I gave a virtual presentation at the Muskegon Community College Math and Technology Workshop organized by Maria Andersen. The …