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Problems with pacing in a large lecture course
Scene 1: a few days ago (SW notes that most pencils in the room have stopped moving or have slowed down) SW: OK, so moving on, we see … (flipping to next slide) (A hand goes up near the back of the...
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Teaching Quandry: Offering make-up labs and field trips?
Let me start by saying that I love my upper-level undergraduate students. They are engaged, enthusiastic, willing to try anything, hard-working, and asking great questions. I have near perfect...
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Ask Sciencewomen: Are there really more dead grandmothers?
This is not a belated April Fool’s joke, though I’ll admit to having sat on this since Wednesday so that my readers wouldn’t think I was making this up. Here is the correspondence I found in my email...
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In praise of NASA’s Earth Observatory
Let me now sing the praises of NASA’s Earth Observatory, a phenomenal web-based public education resource that is celebrating its 10th birthday today. Every day for the past decade, NASA has been...
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Blogging my course design process (part 1.1)
After articulating that my most dire need is to get funded, it may seem disjointed to embark on a series of blog posts about teaching, but there you have it, the life of a professor at a place that...
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Setting goals for a course on Experimental Design and Data Analysis (Course...
As introduced yesterday, I’m blogging my way through the SERC tutorial on course design, for a new graduate-only course on experimental design and data analysis. Yesterday, I explained the context and...
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Ancillary skills goals (course design 1.3)
Now that things at ScienceBlogs have returned to normal, and I’ve drawn down my stash of reader emails, it’s time to get back to work on my series on course design. For those who haven’t been playing...
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Adding content to the new course (Course design 1.4)
To recap, I’m prepping a new graduate level course on experimental design and data analysis (EDDA) that will serve MS and PhD students from geosciences and civil and environmental engineering. I’ve...
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ScienceWoman’s Guide to Writing a Research Proposal in Eight Easy Steps
I’m back to working on my class on Experimental Design and Data Analysis. One of my goals for the course is to have students work in groups to write an NSF-style proposal. So I sat down this morning to...
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Grad students’ perspectives on the scientific method
Remember this summer when I was working on the course design for my new prep on Experimental Design and Data Analysis? We’re now a month into the class, and while it has had its rough moments, I think...
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