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Supplemental Instruction Update
This semester I piloted supplemental instruction (SI) sessions for my 2 sections of statistics. If you’re not familiar with the idea of SI, it is essentially 1 free hour of free help for the students before every class. There was an SI leader assigned to each of my classes that sat in on the class…
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The Side Effects of Technology Overload
I am co-presenting a presentation on “The Side Effects of Technology Overload” with another participant at Screencast Camp 2012. Below is a list of some articles on the topic that are meant to spark discussion within the group. I will share some notes on the discussion once the session is over. WebMD: When Technology Overtakes…
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My New Interest: Detroit Tigers Baseball
I want to take a minute to expand upon my current obsession with Detroit Tigers Baseball. From as far as I can remember, I never really had a hobby or anything that I would do regularly for leisure. Immediately after high school, I went to college. Every summer during college I came home and took…
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Jing and Geogebra
During the Summer 2012 semester, I decided to have my Math for Education students use Jing to send me a diagram of something that they were supposed to do using Geogebra. If you aren’t familiar with Jing, it is a free screen-capturing and screen-casting tool from the people at Techsmith, located in Okemos, MI. And…
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Learning from Ignite
If you don’t know what Ignite is, simply put, it is a format in which speakers are limited to using 20 slides and each of those slides automatically advances every 15 seconds. Thus, a speaker must get their point across within a maximum of 5 minutes. I learned about the Ignite format from past conferences…
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My First Commencement
This May I attended my first ever commencement as a faculty member. I really didn’t know what to expect. People I know who teach at other colleges told me to expect two things – that it would be a very enjoyable experience to see so many students walk across the stage and that it would…
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Jon Oaks 