Thursday, October 15, 2009

Over a cup of coffee: October 15th edition

The National Day on Writing is Tuesday, October 20th! DePaul events taking place on both the Lincoln Park campus and in the loop.

Faculty Focus explains how student self grading can be a technique to get students to value assignments as more than just part of their grade but part of helping them learn.

Prof Hacker offers an easy way to teach citations.

Inside Higher Ed. gives advice on how to avoid the autumn chill, that is, get recharged to finish the quarter with energy.

The Teaching Professor summarizes research in which it was shown that over-participating students “somehow make other students think they are developing less competence as communicators.”

The NYTimes reports on how the exponential growth of data storage is changing the way we teach computer science and information science.