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How I learned to stop worrying and encourage internet surfing in class
Posted by Kim Hannula on June 16, 2009 When I was designing my summer session class, I ran into a problem. If I really wanted my students to achieve the course goals, they would need to spend a lot of time on a computer. In a 3-times-a-week lecture course, I might expect them to do that work outside of class, but we were…
Blogging a research cruise to active undersea volcanoes
Posted by Kim Hannula on May 17, 2009 Earlier this month, a group of biologists, oceanographers, volcanologists, geophysicists, and other scientists from many institutions took a trip to the area between Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga to look at actively erupting submarine volcanoes, including a backarc spreading ridge (never directly observed before!) and a new arc volcano. And they had a blog. So if…
Good examples of hurricanes, volcanoes, landslides…?
Posted by Kim Hannula on April 30, 2009 I should have finished designing the new version of my disasters class. I’ve been thinking about it forever. But then I was trying to get a paper written, and then I went to a conference, and then there were senior thesis presentations and end-of-semester grading and a six-year-old’s birthday, and, well… Yes, I am frantically…
Course redesign 4: time for a plan
Posted by Kim Hannula on March 18, 2009 I’ve been blogging my way throug the redesign of my upper-level general education course, “The Control of Nature,” using a course design tutorial from SERC. I’ve talked about what’s gone wrong in the past, about who my students are and what they need from the class, and about my tentative goals for the class. I’ve…
Course redesign part 3: goal? I need goals?
Posted by Kim Hannula on March 13, 2009 I’m rethinking one of my courses, an upper level general education course called “The Control of Nature.” I’ve been blogging my way through the course redesign process, starting with past problems with the course and with my various practical constraints (class schedule, physical space, student background). I’m using an online tutorial to guide me through…
Ka-Boom! Eruptions is now on ScienceBlogs
Posted by Kim Hannula on March 13, 2009 Erik Klemetti’s blog Eruptions has just joined ScienceBlogs. Yay! Now you know that geology is the hottest science. (Well, except maybe for solar physics, but they go to American Geophysical Union meetings too.)
Redesigning a broken course
Posted by Kim Hannula on March 11, 2009 I’ve got a course that (IMO) is broken, and I’m working on fixing it. I’ve been teaching a course called “The Control of Nature” (after John McPhee’s book) for 16 years, after thinking of the idea on my way home from my first academic job interview. (Yes, that was a bad time to come up…
Stuff I’m reading
Posted by Kim Hannula on March 4, 2009 There has been a lot of cool stuff posted while I was getting this blog set up. From my Google Reader shared items: Exotic rocks. There’s an art exhibit in Oakland, California, that includes metamorphic rocks from Maine. Why? Because the schists sound like xylophone keys when they’re struck. I knew there was a reason…