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Allow me to share a cautionary tale, which will be particularly relevant to anyone who has 150+ millennials in an online class. One of the assignments in the first…
Modeling manners online
I have been teaching online over the last couple of years, and the classes are getting bigger. This means – more students, more TAs, more google hangouts,…
Teaching online with Jorge Luis Borges
This week, students in my online class learnt about the fallibility of maps and cartographers, who as one astute student said, contributed to the “zombiefication of history”.…
April 2014 redux: an interview, and a sartorial lesson
A while ago I gave a talk in Mexico City. As part of that very engaging day, I was interviewed by my host, Gustavo del Angel,…
D-day minus 6
New Year’s eve Shmew Years eve… Between today and the beginning of the new online class on January 5th I have 1 proposal due, 1 talk to give, 60 conference…
The Historian’s Workshop is online – enroll now – classes start January 5th!
We are less than 2 months away from the Winter quarter, and enrollments are open at UCR and across the UC campuses for the online version of…
How to make 6-figures teaching online
This is the promise of this course on Udemy. The course usually costs $299, it’s on sale until this Friday for $19! That’s a 93% discount for those of…
The end of front-row bias
The affordance of the physical classroom dictates that there must be a front row. No matter what type of student you are, on day 1 of class,…
Technology and the future of the University of California : a one-day summit
On October 24th I will be speaking, with a host of other awesome people here: http://ucengage2014.ucop.edu/. I am quite excited to share a day with, among…
Does it really matter whether you take notes with a laptop or by hand?
A recent study on the merits of note-taking by hand (instead of using a laptop) further adds to the evidence that taking notes like our parents did is the…
