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Using Apple Keynote for lecturing undergraduate students
热度 1 虞左俊 2011-4-4 05:52
I am a Dell person, and I am not eager to change. However, my co-instructor has a keynote for a lecture on the ozone hole, with movie clips and animations. So, I agreed to give it a try. First, I needed to get a loaner, which was easy. Then, I had to learn how to edit the keynote file, which requi ...
个人分类: Education|3054 次阅读|2 个评论 热度 1
A picture is worth a thousand words (on forest)
热度 1 虞左俊 2011-3-7 07:09
I will teach forests on Monday. I thought you may be interested in what a physical oceanographer has to say about world forests. Take a look at the three maps (= three thousand words?) in my lecture ppt. How do you feel as a Chinese? Forests_spr2011_4p.pdf
个人分类: Education|3021 次阅读|4 个评论 热度 1
How far is a college student willing to go (in the US)?
热度 2 虞左俊 2011-3-6 09:26
Tuition is not cheap for out-of-state students at a state university. So, you would think that they would come to classes and do their homework so that their money or their parents' money is not wasted. Well, one of my former students said her brother died (so she had to be away for days), but coul ...
个人分类: Education|2980 次阅读|3 个评论 热度 2
What can a quiz do for instructors?
热度 1 虞左俊 2011-2-19 07:49
Today is Friday. I was told this morning that the number of people on campus seemed low. There is a good reason for this, because the coming Monday is a federal holiday and some students decided to take an extra day off by not coming to school today. When I went to my class at noon, I clearly sens ...
个人分类: Education|2346 次阅读|4 个评论 热度 1
A proctor’s encounter during a midterm exam
虞左俊 2011-2-15 09:02
By June Before the test started, a student asked me whether or not he could use the calculator in his cell phone. I said: "No." The students were reminded more than once to bring their calculator. I didn’t change my decision even after I was told that there was no signal in the classroom ...
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