Category Archives: Scholarship
ICTCM underway
It’s a beautiful day here on the shores of Lake Michigan as the ICTCM gets underway. It’s a busy day and — to my never-ending annoyance — there is no wireless internet in the hotel. So I won’t be blogging/tweeting … Continue reading
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Filed under ictcm, Maple, MATLAB, Scholarship, Screencasts, Social software, Software, Web 2.0, Wolfram|Alpha
Monday GTD moment: Scholarship and GTD
This is the third installment of Monday GTD Moment, where I take a post to blog about Getting Things Done and how it applies in an academic setting. If you’re unfamiliar with GTD, here’s a good overview, and make sure … Continue reading
Filed under GTD, Higher ed, Life in academia, Profhacks, Scholarship, Study hacks, Tenure
What is a basic syllabus in educational technology?
So I’m plotting out my tactical plans for research and scholarship over the next year right now — my imagination being stoked by the completion of my Statement of Scholarship — and I’d like to go deeper into educational technology … Continue reading
Filed under Educational technology, Scholarship, Social software, Technology, Web 2.0
Letting teaching and research feed each other
Good article here at the Chronicle on balancing teaching with research, from a neuroscience professor who makes it work for him. The reality of modern academe is that, no matter what your institutional affiliation, the time you can devote to … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Higher ed, Life in academia, Scholarship, Teaching
Fun with finite fields
For those of you interested, I have a review of Finite Fields and Applications by Gary Mullen and Carl Mummert now posted at MAA Reviews. You can get to it here, although you have to be an MAA member to … Continue reading
Filed under Abstract algebra, Math, Scholarship
A place for rejected math articles
If you’ve been submitting mathematics articles to refereed journals only to have them sent back to you every time, there’s hope. You can try submitting them to the new journal Rejecta Mathematica, which will consist only of papers which have … Continue reading
Filed under Math, Scholarship
Some ruminations on research
So I spent the entire day today up the road at Butler at an NSF workshop for people interested in writing grant proposals. It was very informative, and it was especially helpful to have most of the actual program directors … Continue reading
Filed under Life in academia, Math, Personal, Scholarship
Spider-sense and social networking
A researcher in Argentina has just published a paper entitled “How to Be a Superhero” in which he analyzes the social networks of superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe. Here’s the abstract: We analyze a collaboration network based on the … Continue reading
Filed under Scholarship, Social software
The 80/20 rule
Olivier Bousquet at Machine Learning Thoughts has an insightful observation about life in academia or a research setting: “No matter where you are, it is almost impossible to spend more than 20% of your time doing research.” He calls this … Continue reading
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Weasel words in education: “-based”
Some of the worst abuses of the English language today occur in education, and one that I dislike particularly is the suffix “-based” when applied to pedagogical methods. In particular, the terms weasel-words academically-based and research-based make my muscles tense … Continue reading
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Filed under Early education, Education, Scholarship
