Never forget your Alumni This past weekend I attended a reunion for graduates of our program from 1998 and 2003. It has been over 15 and 10 years respectively since these students left our halls […]
ACM Student Chapter
Our ACM Student Chapter I was the faculty sponsor when we first formed our Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) student chapter (link dead, bringing back when available) back in 2002. The chapter went dormant after […]
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 […]
Being a Leader
Are You a Leader? I’ve always been an active (some say hyperactive) person in any of my places of employment. I always look for ways to improve or optimize processes. I’ve done this in my […]
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 […]
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 […]
Flip your Class Tec de Monterrey
Evangelizing the Flip I am heading up a project to lead those at my campus and institution who want to consider flipping their classrooms. If you work with me at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Tec […]
Smile for your Students
Back to Engagement I wrote about engagement before and how important that is. In my experience I have had the best success in reaching my shy students by getting to know them at some personal […]