by Tim Slater | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog
Is one of your course goals to help students discern ‘fake news’ from the real thing when running around the Inter-webs? Do you want your students to learn the habit of being an informed skeptic when encountering documentary-style cable television shows about alien...
by Tim Slater | Apr 30, 2017 | Blog
Do you wonder if the rapidly growing costs of traditional textbooks are worth the immense cost students are being asked to bear? Both you and your students probably know that there are countless free and frequently updated web pages out there providing much of the...
by Tim Slater | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog
We’ve all caught ourselves saying, “teaching would be so much more fun if I didn’t have to do all of this grading” when sitting down to an enormous stack of papers (or electronic files) to grade. But grading all of those assignments doesn’t have to be chore, if you...
by Tim Slater | Feb 27, 2017 | Blog
In the traditional stand-and-deliver, information-download approach to teaching college-level science, students are often expected to diligently—and quietly—take handwritten notes in order to memorize the ideas presented in class, and repeat those ideas back to the...
by Tim Slater | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog
Longstanding folklore exists around the tradition of college professor’s office hours. Some of the mythology is funny, as in, “I love office hours, it is the only time I know I can catch up on my work because no one ever bothers me.” Some of the tales are not quite...
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