I have heard tales of the discussion board post as a graded assignment in classes. Often these classes are online, and so the discussion board is meant to take the place of actual out loud verbal interaction between teachers and students, and between students and their classmates. I’ve also heard of these being used to […]
This is definitely my favorite semester of teaching so far in my career. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while because it’s the first semester I’m teaching only courses for our department majors (not courses for the general population). I’m teaching 3 classes: Transitions to Advanced Mathematics (an intro-to-proofs course for math majors […]
There’s Got To Be A Better Way Late last semester I had a bit of an epiphany. I had no good answer to the question “Why am I using printed lecture notes during class?” In my head, I started to think about my ideal replacement for paper lecture notes. For some parts of some classes […]
I graduated from college roughly 6 years ago. I’ve had it in my mind since about junior year (of college) that my college GPA was so low because of the liberal arts classes I had to take – the humanities courses that had nothing to do with my major that I didn’t care about and […]
The original purpose of this blog was to keep friends, family, and colleagues from “back home” updated on my life and my grad school progress with mass updates. I know, I’ve been stingy with the updates. And when I do write, it’s either completely unrelated to school/work or it’s somewhat related and so long that […]
Hmmm. Germany is pretty well documented, but that was only two-and-a-half weeks of the summer. What have I been doing for the other 11.5 weeks? And what are my plans for the last week-and-a-half of vacation? Back in May, I spent a week at home in Pennsylvania. Honestly, it seems like a lifetime away now. […]
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