UPDATE: Moving to the top for the start of the new semester Here’s something cool you can do with Google Docs. I’ve created a couple of short self-diagnostic quizzes so that students can practice distinguishing between valid and invalid arguments. Feel free to embed these in your own course webpages.… Continue Reading
I’ve posted a bit about the Nook eReader, and I also posted that I recently picked up a Samsung Galaxy Tab. While playing around with it, I discovered that with a couple of apps you can turn it into a pretty powerful research tool. I wrote about it over at Android for Academics. Rather than… Continue Reading
I thought it would be a good idea to put together a short demo video of the free Attendance app we have on the Android market, so you can see how the integration with Google Docs works. Here it is.… Continue Reading
I’ve been playing around with Google Chrome’s extension called Chrome to Phone, and I’m completely hooked. The concept is simple enough. You’re on your desktop and you find some information that would be useful to bring up on your phone in the near future (e.g. you’re about to leave your office to go to class).… Continue Reading
I’m the technology associate for our Professional Development Center here at SUNY Fredonia. I’m giving a workshop today called “Google and Course Management”. This will be a more hands-on elaboration of a few specific things I talked about in my previous presentation “What Google Can Do For You?” since we will be in a lab… Continue Reading
We (Android for Academics) just launched an Attendance App. It’s available for free on the Android Market. I can attest to its awesomeness because I’ve been using it in my classes this semester. The really novel feature is that you don’t need to enter student names into your phone or export the data from your… Continue Reading
At the beginning of each semester, I teach all of my students about basic argument structure and vocabulary (e.g. valid, invalid, sound, and unsound) and get them familiar with the practice of presenting arguments in numbered-premise form. I’ve started using Google Presentations as a cool way to let them self-diagnose. I’ve created two presentation slides.… Continue Reading
We (Android for Academics) just released a grade book program. I’m pretty excited about this. It’s been in the works all summer, and I’m very happy that we could get it out for the start of the fall semester. That’s really all due to Jon Nalewajek – he did all of the coding on this… Continue Reading
I was invited to write a critical review of Jennifer Lackey’s book Learning from Words. I just submitted a draft to Philosophical Books for review, but I still welcome comments/feedback. In short, despite the fact that I disagree with Lackey on a number of issues, I think this book is excellent. Here’s a link to… Continue Reading
Now you can submit to Sympoze directly from Google Reader!. It’s simple. First you need to create your custom button in Google Reader. (p.s. if you don’t have a Sympoze account…sign-up here.) Step One: Create a Custom “Send To” Link 1. From Google Reader go to Settings 2. Click the “Send To” tab 3. Click… Continue Reading