How Important is your Data? If you are reading this blog post, you have some form of data. Your data comes in various forms: photos and videos of your family and friends, assignments for school […]
One Thousand
One Thousand Views I started this working year with a plan to write close to one post per day. Secretly, I also set a goal of breaking 1000 page views in a month sometime in […]
WordPress in the Classroom
WordPress Blogs for Projects This semester I am teaching a course which is project based and the students are developing applications for Android in small teams. This is first time I have taught this course […]
Twitter for Teachers
Are you on Twitter? I’ve been using Twitter for over five years apparently but my use has picked up significantly in the last year. Twiage.com tells me my “Twitter age” to the day as seen […]
Schoology First Impressions
Surprised by Schoology As mentioned last week, I’ve moved to Schoology as my LMS (Learning Management System) for my courses this semester. I am teaching a total of four groups across three separate courses which […]
Engage Students with Facebook
Go where they are: Facebook A long time ago I was able to engage my students via newsgroups (nntp) or the forums in Moodle or Blackboard. Lately getting students to post on the forums in […]
Sign My Syllabus
Did you read the syllabus? Often the syllabus for courses is an exercise in formality of creating a document that we are required to make and ensure students are aware of its existence. Very rarely […]
Blogs I Follow
Read/Write Blogs I’ve only been writing here for a short time and if my count is correct this is my thirty-fourth post. But I’ve been reading blogs for as long as blogs have been around.
Teaching Tools for 2014
A short history of my use of Moodle as a Teaching Tool Over the years, I have used many tools in my teaching. Finding and using new tools is never a problem for me, in […]
ABCs of Computer Security
Teaching Security to a New Generation I was invited to speak on computing security this morning to a group of high school students here on campus. The talk is in Spanish which puts me at […]