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Yes it has been a busy year! Some updates. | barralopolis
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Teaching and learning reflections around science education. Three posters presented at AAAS2015. Unbowed, unbent, unbroken…but slightly deflated. Yes it has been a busy year! October 18, 2015. Me on the boat deploying the plastic samples in Doheny State Beach. What happened after February? Well, a bunch of things. Some of them I mentioned in my older blog postings, and it is nice to know that they have been moving forward over the past months. In a past posting I mentioned number crunching. Is going stro...
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Once I am done with the applications and posters… | barralopolis
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Teaching and learning reflections around science education. Number crunching is exhausting but oh so good. Once I am done with the applications and posters…. January 24, 2015. The state of my AAAS poster, January 24 6.27 AM. I already started working on one essay, two posters, and the letter. The other essays are not really literary essays- I just need to show that I have the background and experience to be successful for that particular training program. As I mentioned in one of my previous postings.
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Unbowed, unbent, unbroken…but slightly deflated | barralopolis
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Teaching and learning reflections around science education. Yes it has been a busy year! Unbowed, unbent, unbroken…but slightly deflated. October 23, 2015. A beautiful morning, washing away the disappointment. The title comes from the words of House Martell of The Song of Ice and Fire books. They have a nice ring to them, and it was a nerdy way to console myself when last weekend I arrived to the buoy of my plastic sampling system, just to find the set of cages gone. Oct 24, 2015. Dec 16, 2016. I realize...
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How I learned to stop hating the bragging list… | barralopolis
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Teaching and learning reflections around science education. New) thoughts and worries about online cheating. How I learned to stop hating the bragging list…. January 6, 2015. Looking down from a trail close to Idyllwild. Patterns can be seen better in the distance (geographical or time). 8230;and embraced it instead. What else to say? Lists are good. Bragging lists are useful. Admins sometimes come with pretty good ideas. Google documents rock. Jan 06, 2015. Jan 24, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Three posters presented at AAAS2015 | barralopolis
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Teaching and learning reflections around science education. Few takes from the other side of a search committee. Yes it has been a busy year! Three posters presented at AAAS2015. February 14, 2015. Here are the three posters I am presenting at AAAS2015, or better said, I am presenting the first GEP poster, and the two others are student posters. Whew! It was a bit stressful last week, but it is nice that it is done. Poster session this afternoon, 2/14. Happy Valentine’s Day! From Ana Maria Barral. Traine...
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“No rest for the wicked… | barralopolis
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Teaching and learning reflections around science education. The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity Brain Pickings. 8220;No rest for the wicked…. June 23, 2013. And the righteous don’t need it! Washington University in St. Louis. I am writing this at the breakfast table, in a hurry- we are heading for a full day of computer work with annotation, so I am not sure how much and how quickly I will be able to write. But for now, visit the course material page.
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Number crunching is exhausting but oh so good | barralopolis
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Teaching and learning reflections around science education. Once I am done with the applications and posters…. Few takes from the other side of a search committee. Number crunching is exhausting but oh so good. January 27, 2015. The power of numbers. As I am plowing ahead with the analysis of a course design change in a general biology course, things changed for the best when a colleague who loves numbers agreed to help me out with the statistics. Over the past few days I learned two things:. Numbers hav...
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Surrounded by geniuses? | barralopolis
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Teaching and learning reflections around science education. Do you need a doctorate to teach at a community college? Once I am done with the applications and posters…. January 23, 2015. Readers may have noted my absence for a week- I was out of town for a workshop last weekend, and when I returned there was a big pile of reports to grade, plus a number of pressing deadlines. I had to hunker down and plow through them- not yet done, but feeling better now. On the other hand…. Training at our campus. I...