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• 2007: What an intense week! — Thesis: A usability pilot session left me frustrated with my project and insecure about its significance. While stepping through the tasks, I [...]
• 2007: What an intense week! — Thesis: A usability pilot session left me frustrated with my project and insecure about its significance. While stepping through the tasks, I [...]
• 2006: CHI2006 schedule — Mon |1030 1100 [...]
• 2006: Anyone else going to CHI2006? — If you're going to CHI2006, write me e-mail by tonight (Saturday) and we might be able to have breakfast, lunch or [...]
• 2006: Mindmapped — I've mindmapped my sharing paper and gathered the quotes, but it's probably not a good idea for me to spend the [...]
• 2005: General instructions for assignments — All pages in an assignment should have your name in the upper left corner and the page number in the upper [...]
• 2005: Banaue cultural festival from April 28 to May 1 — From April 28, 2005 to May 1, 2005, Banaue will hold the 8th Imbayah Cultural Festival: "Breaking the Cultural Barriers: Meeting [...]
• 2005: Movie marathon — Watched King Arthur, Ring 2 (not worth watching), Ranma, and My Little Bride with Marcelle, Grace, Ranulf, Peppy, and Sean at [...]
• 2004: Blogging — Perhaps a group blog might be a good idea. I'll give 10 minutes at the end of each period (ouch, that [...]
• 2004: Heuristics for good lectures — http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/resources/coursedesign_research.html How can you draw/grab students' attention to your lecture given their preoccupation with so many things when they walk into [...]
• 2004: Themes — Specificity. Start with the four to six broad concepts, principles, or themes for the semester, then write specific objectives for [...]
• 2004: Learning-centered syllabus — http://www.cte.iastate.edu/tips/syllabi.html (Nice page!) I should expose my students to these questions. We've missed out on them so far. - How do we think in [...]
• 2004: Interesting notes from the best practices — 2http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/eceprog/bstprac.htm603 Guided Lecture: Students listen to 15-20 minutes of lecture without taking notes. At the end, they spend five minutes [...]
• 2004: A Brief Summary of the Best Practices in Teaching — Intended to Challenge the Professional Development of All Teachers Compiled by Tom Drummond North Seattle Community College, 1994, 2002 http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/eceprog/bstprac.htm CS21A.Teaching
• 2004: Planning for instruction: CS21A — Following tips from http://trc.virginia.edu/Publications/UVaTeaching/I1.htm What do you expect students to learn? In CS21A, I expect students to learn how to write graphical [...]
• 2004: Free NZ visa — On the plus side, our country has a bilateral fee waiver agreement with NZ for visitor's visas not exceeding 59 days. [...]
• 2004: NZ — How can I make an appointment? Tuesday afternoon, 10:00 a.m.? Hey, no one's picking up at the NZ embassy. Lodging: 9:00 - 12:30, [...]
• 2004: sacha/try-expand-emacs-wiki-name — (defun sacha/try-expand-emacs-wiki-name (old) "Expand a wiki name." (unless old (he-init-string (he-dabbrev-beg) (point)) [...]
• 2004: Scheduling an appointment with the AU embassy — I need to call 1909 362 2779 using an NDD-capable line to set an appointment. I guess that means I should [...]
• 2004: James Farmer's Online Education Weblog — http://radio.weblogs.com/0120501/
• 2004: Orkut at 11 weeks — http://www.anthonyhempell.com/papers/orkut/
• 2004: Structured procrastination — John Perry's 1995 essay entitled "Structured Procrastination" is a particularly good read for the procrastinator in all of us. Considering the way [...]
• 2004: How to be a programmer: a short, comprehensive and personal summary — http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2004/03/29/HowToBeAProgrammer.html Excellent article. I think I'll make it (or something similar) required reading for my students. Mirroring locally.
• 2004: Straw and Jan Alonzo — http://www.nongnu.org/straw/ Kudos to Jan Alonzo (PLUG) for significant contributions to Straw, a blog aggregator. Impressed.
• 2004: Scheduling — I think that scheduling the next day is a good idea. It'll force me to practice estimating time and prioritizing tasks. [...]
• 2003: Software quotes — Just discovered http://www.softwarequotes.com =)
• 2003: Moodle — Picture should not have an empty string. Fixed by adding $user->picture = -1 .
• 2003: Moodle.org and LANG — Moodle's postgres7.sql is missing a lang char(5) default 'en' declaration in prefix_user. This causes user additions to fail. To fix an already [...]

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