Teaching Mathematics with Clickers: Notes from the 2010 Joint Meetings
File this under “Better Late Than Never.” Back in January 2010, I coordinated (with Kelly Cline and Kien Lim) a contributed paper …
Teaching with Multivariable Plots – Lessons from “The Back of the Napkin”
Continuing a series of posts on Dan Roam’s The Back of the Napkin… While Roam’s definition of map is fairly broad, his …
Connecting with Participatory Culture: Clickers and Deep Learning
I’ve scheduled this post to appear on the blog just as I’m starting my keynote at the University of Louisville clickers conference …
Teaching with Maps – Lessons from “The Back of the Napkin”
Continuing a series of posts on Dan Roam’s The Back of the Napkin… Roam has a fairly expansive definition of map, one …
“The Back of the Napkin” by Dan Roam
Odds are, you’ve probably never read a book quite like The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam. One reason is that …
Revolution or Evolution? Changing Instructional Practices in the Academy
Hacking the Academy is a project headed up by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The idea …
Gadget Review: the Built-In Organized Orderly Knowledge Device (BOOK)
The other day, Ed Neal posted a mock announcement for a new product–the Built-In Organized Orderly Knowledge device (the BOOK)–on the POD …
Class Time Reconsidered at the Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning
Sunday night, I delivered the opening keynote at Central Michigan University’s Great Lakes Conference on Teaching and Learning. My presentation was titled …
Blogs, Blogs Everywhere
A couple of weeks ago, I began an experiment, one that’s working out okay so far. I’ve been blogging here at http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs …
If Attendance Policies are Bad, What about Grading Class Participation?
The other day, I argued that attendance policies are problematic, in part because tracking attendance in large classes can be difficult and …