Archive for October, 2006

email, cursed email

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Everyone I know is overwhelmed by email. Right now I’m on track to send more than 4000 email messages this year and to receive more than 9000 messages that I save into my database (i.e., leaving out spam or other things that I can delete). I’ve started keeping track of the unprocessed email messages in [...]

Motivation Class 2

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Yesterday we had our second class on motivation. I showed an old video from the Internet Archive – Maintaining Classroom Discipline from 1947. I thought there was a pretty good discussion of issues related to discipline and motivation, although it also brought up a very interesting concept alien to my own experience as a student. [...]

Jon Udell: What’s the video threshold for face-reading?

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Jon Udell: What’s the video threshold for face-reading?. Interesting take on why videoconferencing is so awful. I know there have been efforts to use limited bandwidth more effectively, including some work at UIUC/Beckman while I was there, and the work described here, which probably wouldn’t work well in a multi-user environment.

It sure would be nice [...]

Education 391 – Week of October 23rd

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

This week we begin to talk about motivation. I’m going to start posting course-related materials on this site, because it’s also a place where my students can give me anonymous feedback and suggestions about individual classes. And I hope they will.

One of the things I’ve been asked for is a set of “guiding questions” for [...]

Directions to my house

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

...from the School of Education.

You’ll never walk alone

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
4,280
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

New uses for old textbooks.

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Somehow I don’t think Sony is too worried, but a candidate for State Superintendent of Schools in Oklahoma has figured out what books are good for.

Key quote: “There are some rifles not even Webster’s Dictionary will stop.”

Reminds me of an experience I had when I was learning to give IQ tests in graduate school. One [...]

MARCES conference

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Chris Correa and I just gave our talk to this conference, which went pretty well.

Now we’re listening to a really interesting talk by Dylan Wiliam (not spelling of his surname—he’s Welsh) at ETS, that’s really interesting. A few things I’m learning

there’s a belief in England (going back to something called the Cockcroft report of 1982 [...]

What neural networks can and cannot do

Friday, October 20th, 2006

nice, succinct discussion by Dave Pollard, based on a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell.

7 x 7

Friday, October 13th, 2006

A new version of my favorite movie series is about to come out—the “49” version of the British documentary “7 up!”
Roger Ebert likes it, too.