Oct 28, 2015
If you wait until the last minute, then the job only takes a minute. I have spent the last week during midterms answering emails and meeting with students in the last-minute throws of studying for the exam. I probably should not have announced the midterm at the last...
Nov 12, 2014
A picture is worth a thousand words. I received a submission for a writing assignment today via email. It was a picture, included as an attachment, showing a handwritten homework assignment, taken with the smartphone, at arm’s-length. I have received three...
Nov 5, 2014
“I don’t understand what you don’t understand.” A conversation was occurring in the classroom as I walked in. A student was attempting to help another with a drawing in the text. It was not clear to one, and the other thought it was obvious. It reminded me of a...
Nov 1, 2014
“Do you think he’ll get mad if I do them all this way?” A student was holding up a folded sheet of notebook paper for her friend to see. I was walking by the table outside my office area that they were using for homework. My first thought was to snatch the paper...
Oct 23, 2014
Extra credit may be trivial to the overall grade. In my electronics lab, it sparked an interest in a simple circuit. The task was to build a simple circuit as introduction to how switches worked. The switch would turn on a motor, making it spin forward or backward...
