I’m back. The break was great. We went to Jamaica just before Christmas with my wife’s side of the family, and we just finished Christmas with my side of the family. It’s time to start doing some philosophy. The really exciting news is that my wife and my folks went in together and bought me… Continue Reading
It’s finals week here at SUNY Fredonia, and I thought I’d share a quick and easy to record those final exam grades using Google Forms. Create a Google Form with 2 Questions – one for Lastname and one for Points. (the resulting form will look like this) Give yourself an easy way on your computer… Continue Reading
I want to talk about the multiple universe response to the Fine-Tuning Argument. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the fine-tuning argument here is a one-page handout that I give my students when we talk about it. It doesn’t contain all of the details of the argument, but it should give you the… Continue Reading
UPDATE: androidforacademics.com develops Android Apps for Teachers. Right now they have four apps: Gradebook, Attendance, Grade Rubric, and Grade Ticker. Three of them are free and a free version of the fourth one will be available by February 11, 2011 UPDATE: All of the apps I list below are now annotated. I’ll annotate the other… Continue Reading
I’ve been experimenting with mobile plugins for WordPress. Mobilepress gave me some white-screen-of-death problems. Then I found Wptouch. It works, and so far I love the layout.… Continue Reading
UPDATE: I made the switch. It’s awesome. I’m seriously entertaining the idea of having students submit papers to me by sharing a Google Document rather than my current model. I have 10 reasons why I think this is a good idea. But first let me describe the two models. My Current Model I grade papers… Continue Reading
Listen [podcast]http://www.sympoze.com/podcast/Episode2.mp3[/podcast] Links to Journals… Continue Reading