Mobile Phone Cameras in Teaching and Learning
My latest “Teaching with Tech” column for MAA Focus just published this week. Phone Cameras Handle Information in a Snap! Teaching with Tech: Phone Cameras Handle Information in a Snap! Here are the...
View ArticleOnline Office Hours in Instructure Canvas
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the video chat service provided in Canvas was turned off in Fall 2012. It has now been replaced with a Text Chat that is built in to Canvas, but no video. I have been incredibly...
View ArticleNew Chapter: Life Reboot
For the last year, I’ve felt this yearning to do something different. I’ve been a full-time faculty member for a decade now, teaching many of the same courses semester after semester after semester...
View ArticleVideo Code Easter Eggs
I have this sneaky trick I use to tell which students watch online videos and which don’t. I hide “secret codes” in the videos (like the programmer’s Easter Eggs). When a student finds one of my...
View ArticleActivity Icons for Online Course Design
When I went to build my Social Media MOOC, I wanted to find a great set of icons to visually clue students to the learning activities in the course. I looked high and low, but couldn’t find an icon set...
View ArticleWolframAlpha Facebook Report
This is a delightful exercise that everyone seems to love. WolframAlpha will provide you with an extremely detailed analysis of your own Facebook data including visualizations, world clouds, graphs,...
View ArticleCanvas Guides for Math and Chemistry
For those of you gearing up for the Fall Semester, I want to make sure that you know that (1) Canvas upgraded the math editor recently and there is a lot of new functionality available and (2) there...
View ArticleSilicon-Valley Tinted Glasses (and MOOCs)
A great deal of Ed Tech (and the VC money that supports the industry) seems to be viewing the world through lenses that are quite different than those of us who have taught students at public...
View ArticleSurviving (and Thriving) in the Age of Technology-Enhanced Teaching
I’ve been giving versions of this presentation at several events lately: AlaMATYC, SXSWEdu, STEAM3, and Elgin CC’s Distance Learning Conference. I said I would post the slides, and so here they are in...
View ArticleThe 1-9-90 Rule and Observations of a Classroom Experience
I’ve referenced Vilma Mesa‘s Classroom Mapping for a while now, and want to give this some more thoughtful due diligence. You can see examples of Vilma’s Classroom mapping in this Slideshow (the images...
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