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 [...]
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?. 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 [...]
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 [...]
...from the School of Education.
HowManyOfMe.com
There are:
4,280
people with my name
in the U.S.A.
How many have your name?
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 [...]
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 [...]
nice, succinct discussion by Dave Pollard, based on a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell.
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.
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