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 used to the idea of seeing arguments laid out in numbered-premise form. I’ve started using Google Presentations as a cool way to let them self-diagnose. I’ve created two presentation ...
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 explanation why ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 to refresh ...
UPDATE: All of the apps I list below are now annotated. I’ll annotate the other stuff later. UPDATE: I’ve now annotated all three sections, but now I realize a few of the items in the second section are redundant Some of my academic friends are starting to get Android phones. One my friends in the history department ...
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. ...
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 electronically. Students submit ...