Teaching Cryptography, Writing History
Cross-posted from Wonders & Marvels. When you teach mathematics, it’s not every semester that a major motion picture is released that’s squarely …
Creative Teaching with PowerPoint and Prezi (#VizLearning12 Recap Part 4)
My nine-year-old tells me that we’re scheduled for a zombie apocalypse today, so I thought I would go ahead and wrap up …
Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking
I have a new guest post over on the CIRTL Network website: “Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking.” Here’s an excerpt: As …
Lessons Learned by a First-Time Writing Seminar Teacher
This is final (planned) post reflecting on my experiences this fall teaching a first-year writing seminar on the history and mathematics of …
Some Answers to Tough Questions about Grading Standards
You may recall my post from a few weeks ago, “Tough Questions about Grading Standards.” In that post I tried to reconcile …
Student Perceptions of Learning Goals – More from My Course Evals
Yesterday I blogged about the challenge of setting appropriate grading standards in my first-year cryptography course. Today, I’d like to follow up …
Tough Questions about Grading Standards
I’ve spent some time today reading carefully through my end-of-course student evaluations for my fall cryptography seminar. Our course evals are online …
Reflections on My Collaborative Cryptography Timeline Experiment
One of the more unusual components of my fall cryptography course was the cryptography timeline I had my students create collaboratively. Inspired …
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 …
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 …