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Writing good discussion prompts
Writing good discussion prompts
This post assumes you’ve read my previous post, creating effective and engaging discussions.
Numerous studies have shown that students learn best when they learn socially. Learners retain more information and are better able to synthesize it, recognize assumptions, challenge misconceptions, and utilize it in novel or creative ways if they interact with other students. In distance or blended…
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Creating effective and engaging online discussions
Creating effective and engaging online discussions
With links for Canvas Discussions and Piazza where appropriate
As we prepare for fall semester, I’ve been creating some documentation for my department. Occasionally, people outside my department find these useful, so I thought I’d blog them too.
It’s been well established that students understand and retain more from classes where they are able to engage with their peers. Additionally,…
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NaPoWriMo 2020
Like many others this year, I am working from home. Maybe I’ll have time for some blog updates, or poetry. I won’t promise to write one every day, but we’ll see how many I do get out.
You may regret following me.
Here’s a limerick to kick things off. Limericks are always an excellent choice.
This verse is neither, I fear Particularly clever or clear But as poetry goes It certainly shows You…
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Meteor Shower Season 2019
Meteor Shower Season 2019
Late July & Early August is full of meteor showers!
Two different showers originate in Aquarius. They tend to be low activity, but the July 30/August 1 new moon give you a better chance than usual of seeing something good!
Of course the most famous shower of the year is the Peseids. This year they peak around August 13, just in time for the full Moon. Fortunately, this very active shower not only…
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Don't miss the Geminids!
Don’t miss the Geminids!
One of the best meteor showers of the year takes up most of the month of December, but will be best on the mornings of December 13 & 14.
Rising ENE a little after 7 PM, the radiant of the Geminids is up nearly all night. As always, the best time to watch for meteors is in the hours between midnight and dawn, since that’s when your sky is facing the direction Earth is traveling, so heres a map for…
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A naked-eye comet for the holidays (2018)
A naked-eye comet for the holidays (2018)
I guess I must be having a lot of fun, because it sure doesn’t feel like four months has passed since I last logged in here. But there’s a naked-eye comet out there, so I couldn’t let it go by without saying anything!
Comet 46P/Wirtanen is no Hale-Bopp or Hayakutake, but it’s a lot brighter than anything we’ve seen in the northern hemisphere for quite a while. It’s current observed magnitude…
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Venus in August 2018
Venus in August 2018
Everyone else may be talking about Mars, but don’t miss your chance to check out Venus this month!
The maximum elongations for Venus are shown with the dashed lines, and those for Mercury are shown with the dotted lines.
Venus orbits closer to the Sun than we do. That means from our point of view, it never gets very far from the Sun. When it is farthest in the sky from the Sun, we call it…
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Observing tips for July 4th, 2018
Observing tips for July 4th, 2018
The forth of July brings a lot of people outside after dark. While you’re waiting for those fireworks to begin, here are a few things to look for.
I recommend taking along a pair of binoculars.
Venus and Mercury in the West July 3, 2018, 9:30 PM.
Start about half an hour after sunset (or about 9:30 in SE Michigan) and look west. About 20º ( 2 sideways fists) above due west is Venus. As the skies…
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ES2018 - Creative use of technology to assess students
ES2018 – Creative use of technology to assess students
Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This session was on technologies that could help with student assessment.
The session started with a discussion of what is assessment. We tend to think of it as a method of assigning scores/grades (summative assessment), but the discussion showed we really mean a lot more than that. In…
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ES 2018 - effective group assignments
ES 2018 – effective group assignments
Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This session was on creating effective group assignments.
Research shows that group work increases students’ perceptions of learning and their belief in their ability to learn, improves retention of information, increases learning of higher-order tasks, and improves scores. Additionally,…
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ES 2018 - New Canvas gradebook & quizzes
ES 2018 – New Canvas gradebook & quizzes
Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This post is a summary of two sessions on new features in Canvas, the new gradebook and new quizzes. Both of these are in pilot phase right now, available under the Feature Options tab in Settings. They’ve been tested, but not at scale, so there may be bugs.
New gradebook
The new…
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ES 2018 - Lightning talks - Active Learning
ES 2018 – Lightning talks – Active Learning
Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This session was a series of lightning talks on Active Learning. There were 7 presenters. Titles below are my quick reinterpretation, not the listed talk titles (lightning talks = no time to type everything, I just wanted to be sure I got the names right!)
Yulia Sevryugina: Strategies…
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ES 2018 - keynote: Helping Students Learn In An Age Of Digital Distraction
ES 2018 – keynote: Helping Students Learn In An Age Of Digital Distraction
Enriching Scholarship is an annual series of workshops on teaching and learning at the University of Michigan. This year’s keynote address was “Helping Students Learn In An Age Of Digital Distraction” by Katie Linder. You can watch the presentation on the Enriching Scholarship website. Here is my summary of what I thought the important points were, and a little of my own commentary.
Dr Linder…
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News | Celebrate Pi Day, the NASA Way!
News | Celebrate Pi Day, the NASA Way!
I like pi, and I like space exploration, so I love Pi Day with NASA!
On March 14, JPL will celebrate Pi Day with the fifth annual “Pi in the Sky” illustrated math challenge, featuring pi-related space problems that you can do at home.
Source: News | Celebrate Pi Day, the NASA Way!
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February 15 solar eclipse
February 15 solar eclipse
There’s a eclipse on February 15, 2018!
Unfortunately, it’s only a partial, and it’s best viewed from Antarctica.
But if you looking for an excuse to finish off the Valentine’s wine, you can raise a glass to the Sun the next afternoon. Or pull out your photo album and review those pictures from last August. Now THAT was an eclipse!
This is the second of two in this eclipse series. Hopefully you…
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Super purple Moon!
It’s been about 6 months since the last set of eclipses, so its time for the next set, starting with tomorrow morning!
This first eclipse of the year will be a total lunar eclipse, visible primarily over the Pacific. Since the Earth’s atmosphere preferentially scatters blue light, Earth’s shadow tends to be fairly red in color, though the shade depends on a lot of other things, like the amount of…
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The Michigan Meteor and possible meteorites
Last night a rather large meteor exploded over Michigan. Stories and video are all over social media. The American Meteor Society website was down for a while, but it’s back up now, and they have a map where you can see where everyone who saw it was, and the probable ground path. This was a bolide, a very bright meteor that explodes or breaks up, and usually makes it into the lower atmosphere.…
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