Martin Dugard: The Friday Essay: Van Gogh describes a blitzkrieg visit to 3 Van Gogh museums in 3 days in Europe. I’ve only been to the one in Amsterdam, which is amazing. I’ll have to try to get to the other ones. Van Gogh was kind of an icon for our lab in Illinois; I’m [...]
Today we had our second class, which included a syllabus review (postponed from first class so students could read it first), a discussion of the aims of education and how assessment figures into determining what is taught as well as what as been learned. We use a revised version of Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives [...]
In class today I used the Don Novello/Father Guido Sarducci 5 minute university clip, which was both apt and very clever. I need to try to find the original to make a larger, better copy for next time…
In class on Tuesday I showed the most famous of Dan Simons’ change blindness videos, although because of a technical glitch, the class was cued about what to look for. The link goes to quite a few other examples; perhaps I’ll have time to show another one sometime…
Today was the first day of school, and I taught the first meeting of my section of Education 391, Educational Psychology and Human Development. It’s interesting teaching prospective teachers, because there’s both the need and the temptation to engage in quite a bit of “meta” discussion about why one does or does not do something.
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Informed Comment…courtesy of Juan Cole.
Top Wordpress Plugins at The Blog Joint…is something I’ll need to check, in the future, when I have much more free time.
Free Highway Travel Guides looks to be a useful travel site.
carfree ann arbor
This looks very useful. I try not to use a car for personal transportation around Ann Arbor, which is obviously made much easier by living only 2 miles from my office.
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