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On This Day...

• 2011: Tweaking the fingerprint settings on my Lenovo X220T — When I picked the options for my laptop, I made sure I included a fingerprint sensor. I like being able [...]
• 2010: Monthly review: August 2010 — Last month, I wrote: What will August look like? I’m turning 27, so it’ll be a great excuse to do that [...]
• 2003: Oops! — Forgot to go to the faculty forum. Had been talking to Dr. Sarmenta about CS21A.
• 2003: Teaching meeting now — Sir Olpoc, Eric, Fanny, Andrei and me - talking about faculty rank, outstanding teachers - performance monitoring for CS161 MIS people
• 2003: Meeting for CS21A earlier — Have promised to do lab for searching and sorting by Monday
• 2003: Any questions? — (education) http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Questions.html Ways to engage your students - Define a concept in your own words - Explain familiar phenomena in terms of course concepts - [...]
• 2003: Things I wish they had told me — (education) From http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Thingsiwish.html Find one or more research mentors and one or more teaching mentors, and work closely with them for at least [...]
• 2003: Evaluations — (education) http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Eval2.html - What do you like best about this course and/or the instructor? (List up to three things.) - What do you [...]
• 2003: Quick ideas for in-class activities — http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Quickone.html The one-minute paper looks like a good idea. - What are the two most important points brought out in class today [...]
• 2003: Great way to learn Japanese — From Mario: The forest is in danger of being overrun by evil slime! The only way to defeat them is to study [...]
• 2003: No glamour in teaching? — From http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Norespect.html The problem is, there’s no glamour in being a professor. People don’t think of us as powerful and important, [...]
• 2003: Faculty meeting — (education) - PAASCU revisit will be either end of this month or in October. - List of recommendations - Show interaction - Fine arts. [...]
• 2003: Nobody asked me, but… — (education) Eric contributed this education link: http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Columns/Nobody.html It’s someone’s very strong opinions about teaching. Funny read.
• 2003: Helped with iptables problem — Helped `Chance (or Chance), X person.
• 2003: Setting up an Internet gateway — http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialIptablesNetworkGateway.html
• 2003: What to expect your first year of teaching — (education) http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/index.html
• 2003: Research on Successful New Faculty — (education) http://www.id.ucsb.edu/IC/Resources/Teaching/FYFac.html Identifies three aspects for new-teacher success - Collegial support. I experience a lot of collegial support. I regularly swap stories and ideas with [...]
• 2003: http://aci.mta.ca/MtATeach/FirstYear.html — (education) A collection of student comments and advice on first year teaching. This is probably the page that Dominique Cimafranca mentioned. - make the [...]
• 2003: Human bingo — cs21a, education — (education) Hah! My students let me get away with human bingo! Took longer than I thought – adjusting time estimates accordingly [...]