Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Over a cup of coffee: September 30th edition

The Teaching Professor gives Powerpoint Do's and Don'ts.

Faculty Focus reports on student recommendations for encouraging participation.

Tomorrow's Professor Blog encourages us to find ways to help students answer their own questions.

Prof Hacker gets us thinking about how we can use mid-term evaluations to improve our courses.

James Lang in his Chronicle of Higher Education blog challenges us to make teaching resolutions for the new year

Brown University's Digital Collections organizes large collections of African American sheet music, Napoleonic satires, and World War I sheet music.

Geogebra comes into focus as a online and offline tool for teaching geometry, calculus, probability, and more. Take a look at their instructional examples.

Causeweb provides an method for introducing estimations to students using the German Tank problem.