Andrew Cullison

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 [...]

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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. [...]

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This was just posted up on Inside Higher Ed. A new study is claiming that law schools lean left in their hiring. The data is based on a sample of 149 hires. They could only get political ideologies for 40% of the sample. And here’s something weird; there is no information provided on distibution of [...]

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Here’s the Quick Tip Tell your students to make sure they can edit the file in Google Docs before sharing (especially if they’re uploading .wps and .doc files). Remind them to leave the “Convert to Google Docs format” option checked when uploading. Remind them to leave the “To Edit” option checked when sharing. Here’s the [...]

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Dear Afraid-To-Major-In-Philosophy, I saw today that someone searched “afraid to major in philosophy” and found my site. I can only assume it was you. I hope you found my Why Major in Philosophy Page, but I thought I’d post the link here just in case. Sincerely, Andy p.s. Go for it

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A while back I outlined 10 reasons to have students submit papers using Google Docs. Now that I’ve used Google Docs for two terms, I have some tips and suggestions to make using Google Docs easier on you and, generally, more awesome.

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I’m now a contributor at AndroidGuys. Android Guys has been one of my favorite places to get Android related news since the first Android phone launched, and so I’m pretty excited to be able to help these guys out. You can check out my first post here.. It’s a video review/demo of Scan2pdf Mobile. Here’s [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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