The agony and the ecstasy of discussion boards, redux
How a failed experiment turned out to be a favorite among students.
The agony and the ecstasy of discussion boards
A long time ago, I tried to use the Blackboard discussion board. I quickly decided I would rather push needles into my eyes than do that…
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,…
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…
The digital is the collective
A quick update as we process the experience of teaching via Google Hangout to a classroom of 60+ students: it cannot happen without a great team…
Suck it snowstorms – or how profjuliette got beamed into class
I spent a wonderful snowed-in week-end in Portland. Seriously, it was glorious. Portland does not believe in snowplows, so after the 3rd snowstorm, we had no…
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