HigherEd 2.0

Our CCLI effort is taking shape, with several new developments.

I had conversations with Curry school faculty about lending their expertise and experience to the curriculum design and assessment of the program outcomes. They are interested in the work and will contribute to the program.
I also met with our local Apple higher […]

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Some of you might be interested in this news item from two days back on using iPods in higher education. These are all great uses of the technology, but perhaps you noticed that most of the media coverage of this sort of thing does not examine uses in science and engineering. So you […]

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We just completed a really interesting experiment in asynchronous learning in my CE 230 Statics class. This evening at 10 pm, we convened an on-line problem session facilitated by a web browser environment called Vyew, which basically allows users to view and markup the same document in real time. It’s a fun collaborative […]

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Class starts on Wednesday, and I hope you are as excited as I am. We will have a good time in class this semester, I am sure, and I wanted to take a minute or two to describe two of the fun things we’re going to do. First, I want to introduce you […]

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I had a nice discussion today with an instructor (Dr. Blemker) for one of the 162 sections this semester about how we might be able to use podcasting effectively in that course. We kicked around alot of really good ideas, and ultimately I think whatever format is chosen, this will be a really fun […]

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What an adventure. It is an ambitious plan to use my MacBook Pro, a bluetooth headset (Moto HS850), and a nifty piece of software called Profcast to podcast various bits of lectures this semester. Well, it’s a nice enough plan, but after being on various discussion forums, tech support hotlines, and utter desparation, […]

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I am trying to install podPress, a podcast manager plug-in for Wordpress, with no luck yet! Now, let’s see…yes! I do indeed love it. It took some (as did the WordPress installation), but it seems to work as advertised. Now I just have to work on the password protection part of […]

 

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It turns out that the students were unnecessarily worried, as the exam mean was around 72%. There was some trouble with the first problem, which was a challenging problem of a statically indeterminate system loaded in torsion. Only 7 people in the entire class even recognized that the problem was indeed statically indeterminate. […]

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We had this exam a few days back, and I know that many students are extremely apprehensive about the result. My philosophy behind it was that three of the problems were straight forward, in the sense that students would know all the steps to solution (even if they could not quite complete all the […]

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I am quite a novice user of Wordpress, but once I finally fiddled with the installation, generating a MySQL database, etc., this was actually quite easy to do.

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