How to create good first impressions in the classroom
Tomorrow is the first day of school. Each semester, I am reminded of the importance of creating a good first...
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For Students: So You Say You Want a Reference?
A student once asked me if I would provide a reference for her on a job that was her dream...
Online Learning: Privacy versus Protection
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week that in a new 1,200 page bill before Congress "is a small...
Two Basic Excel 2007 Tips for Grading Efficiency
The upgrade to Excel 2007 brought with it some great new features to make managing data easier. When creating Excel-based...
Wordle Makes Ideas and Concepts Visual
IMAGE: created using www.wordle.net I just discovered Wordle, which is a free, web-based tool that allows you to make your...
Social Media and Pedagogy
We recently gave a class for a client on managing across generations. In preparation, I put together some trivia from...
Overcome writer's block – or not!
For my friends at work (or not) on their dissertations, I found this article on the 43folders blog with some...
Overcome writer's block – or not!
For my friends at work (or not) on their dissertations, I found this article on the 43folders blog with some...
Find a job in higher ed
You have decided that you want to seek a position teaching in higher education. It is time to take all...
End-of-semester Grade Complaints
I thought I was going to have my first semester without a single request to change a student's grade. I...
Use conditioning techniques to encourage classroom involvement
There have been times when we all feel like Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. "Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?" How...
The environment in which we're teaching today
It is staggering to imagine how different the culture and environment is today than when most of us went to...
