Category: Teaching & Learning
I’m involved in a program where scientists go to elementary schools to teach science to the kids. It’s super fun to see how engaged the students get in the experiments, to see them thinking critically and learning that science is fun. Last week, I went to meet the classes I’m going to be working with […]
Classes end this week. And, as much as I love, teaching, I really couldn’t be happier for the term to end. I. Am. So. Tired. Teaching a class you haven’t taught before takes a ridiculous amount of work. The class I taught this term had two classes per week, 1.5 hrs each. Do you know […]
I *finally* finished marking the assignments that I’ve been marking for the last 362,454,879 days. Just in time to create the exam before the next set of assignments come in for marking! I really like teaching, but man oh man it’s a lot of work. Especially the first time you teach a course. I can […]
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), one of the three federal funding agencies for research in Canada, has cut the amount of funding that a Master’s student can get through their Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS) down to one year. It is impossible to complete a natural sciences1 Masters program in a year. Most Masters […]
Looks like it’s conference/workshop season for me. Last week was Educamp, today is a workshop on using NVIVO 8 qualitative data analysis software (and Friday I have a workshop on “Problem-Oriented Learning”). So today’s blog posting is going to be my notes from the workshop… which will probably be interesting to about 0.01% of my […]
Two things have happened recently that really reminded my why I love teaching so much. First, I got an email from a student who took my course last term. That course was a seminar-based course in which students all had to do class presentations. So I gave them a presentation on how to give effective […]
More Educamp stuff… Topic: Testing Voice-to-Text & Other Methods (Qualitative Data Transcription) Facilitator: Morgan Reid qualitative research results in a lot of audio files of interviews is there a way to get all that transcribed using technology? there are some good transcription tools – e.g. Express Scribe = free tool, Transcriptions – Mac tools (he […]
Today I’m at Educamp ’09 at UBC As is my predilection for these types of things, I’m taking notes here on my blog. It probably won’t be terribly interesting for most readers, so feel free to skip this. I’m sure I’ll write more about hotties again tomorrow. Keynote #1: Richard Rosenberg, Prof Emeritus in Comp […]
So, I’ve picked up a new class to teach next term: Research Methods. I am stoked because I *love* research methods. This may or may not be because I’m a nerd. Thus far, I have two issues with this course. One is trying to find a good text book. As you can see from the […]
I’m at the UBC Learning Conference. And I’ve been taking my notes here in WordPress to publish a blog posting at the end of the day. Inexplicably, WordPress just ATE the first 1.5 hrs of notes. Gone even from the revision history. Not impressed. Now it’s part #2 of the Learning Goals session: Francis Jones, […]