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Winding Up—Winding Down
With baseball season approaching (and a vague but definite retirement date in sight of no later than May, 2019), it is time to focus on accomplishing a number of things in the near future. One goal is...
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Changes: How much tinkering should one do with a course that seems to work well?
Carroll has become a special place to me. I have been influenced greatly by its students, faculty, staff, administration, and alumni. By its traditions, theater productions and its music. There are...
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A Student-Generated WordPress Tutorial for My Carroll Students
Recently there has been a campus-wide discussion about the need to include writing experiences across the curriculum and across a student’s learning years here. I’ve become a strong believer in giving...
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15 Minutes in My Digital Life As a Professor
I’ve been so busy lately that yesterday I almost didn’t have time to change out of my academic regalia before beginning my PSY205 Statistics and Experimental Design course. Thanks to Jenny Percy for...
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Teaching Tools: SPSS, InStat, StarQuiz, Camtasia, and Research Randomizer.
I am moving towards requiring that all my students demonstrate to me minimal mastery of the use of the technology-based teaching and learning tools I introduce into the classroom (e.g. Quizlet,...
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In Search of the “Best” Screencasting Software
When I am especially busy, I encourage my student research team to use their creativity to surprise me. Here is their preliminary work for an ebook we are writing that will give student guides to...
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Rediscovering VoiceThread
I continue to be alerted to so many good ideas via my the personal learning resources on my twitter feed. Today I was reminded of the valuable potential of a learning tool I abandoned and hadn’t...
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Curious David Revisits His Global Outreach Attempts
It’s past time for a more systematic global outreach by me and my students. Today I met briefly with some visitors from China. I wished them a Happy New Year of the Monkey. Then I began setting up...
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Heartfelt thanks to all my teachers I have never personally met—and one in...
Winding up; winding down. As I shoveled cleaned out organized books, folders, software, and files in my office today I came across materials from the First-Year Seminar “Pioneering Web 2.0 Learning...
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Using Internet Tools to Maximize My Effectiveness Inside and Outside the...
Earlier this morning I had a team meeting with two of my student research assistants before leaving for an off-campus meeting with my Schneider Consulting business partners, Jane and Greg Schneider. I...
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Thank You, Global Educators, for Your Impact
A provocative blog piece by Luis Miguel Miñarro, an educator in La Mancha, Spain… We had “interacted” in prior years when he shared with me how he used Animoto to make a Carnival 2014 video. Now we...
View ArticleRevisiting my Tool Box Tool by Tool: Take 5
Twitter: I often learn about a new technology learning tool here through selectively identifying “thought leaders.” I try to reciprocate with something that they might find of interest...
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15 Minutes in My Digital Life As a Professor
I’ve been so busy lately that yesterday I almost didn’t have time to change out of my academic regalia before beginning my PSY205 Statistics and Experimental Design course. Thanks to Jenny Percy for...
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Teaching Tools: SPSS, InStat, StarQuiz, Camtasia, and Research Randomizer.
I am moving towards requiring that all my students demonstrate to me minimal mastery of the use of the technology-based teaching and learning tools I introduce into the classroom (e.g. Quizlet,...
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In Search of the “Best” Screencasting Software
When I am especially busy, I encourage my student research team to use their creativity to surprise me. Here is their preliminary work for an ebook we are writing that will give student guides to...
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Rediscovering VoiceThread
I continue to be alerted to so many good ideas via my the personal learning resources on my twitter feed. Today I was reminded of the valuable potential of a learning tool I abandoned and hadn’t...
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Reconnecting with Carroll Alumni Using LinkedIn Premium
While my undergraduate research students have independently of me been working hard on their ebook project (which they hope to share with me next week), I have been investing some time (and money)...
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Adventures in Dr. Simpson’s Neighborhood: Four Reasons Why I Continue to Teach
Some of my most joyful teaching moments occur outside the classroom playfully interacting with my student research assistants. Today as I experimented with teaching capabilities of Vimeo and YouTube I...
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Something Old – Something New: A Brief Introduction to Calculating and...
I’ll probably have to defer until this summer mastering the intricacies of “The New Statistics” championed by Geoff Cumming. I want to avoid throwing the baby out with the bath water as I attend to...
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Opening Pandora’s Box
I’m glancing at a research article “The Pandora Effect: The Power and Peril of Curiosity” by Christopher K. Hsee and Bowen Ruan recently published in the journal Psychological Science. Since my Oberlin...
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