by Pamela | Nov 7, 2007 | Podcasting, Projects, Teaching, Technology
Some of the coolest moments in teaching only occur when your students realize they can safely ask anything. On random days, at random times, (during some unpredictable moment) one student will suddenly raise their hand and ask a question along the lines of “What...
by Pamela | Oct 3, 2007 | Academic Politics, Personal, Teaching
Today I had two juxtapositions of journal articles. On one hand I had the photo-ready proofs of a journal article on the Astronomy Cast listener survey I submitted to, and had accepted by CAP. On the other hand I had a bunch of journal articles my student was working...
by Pamela | Sep 26, 2007 | Teaching
This week all of my physics classes are taking their first exam. Today my two sections of Science Foundations for elementary education majors had their exam and tomorrow my science and engineering students have their calculas-based have their first exam. My exams...
by Pamela | Sep 22, 2007 | Academic Politics
Somewhere, once upon a time, the metaphor of faculty living in a mystical Ivory Tower entered the vernacular. I don’t know the history of this imagery, but it always conjures images of wizards working their spells while the look out over the common people...
by Pamela | Sep 11, 2007 | Astronomy, Personal, Teaching, Travel
I admit it, I found my wall. Sometime Friday afternoon the part of my brain capable of writing and (somewhat more importantly) filtering the majority of the silly thoughts in my head from coming out my mouth turned off. As Saturday came on the heels of 5 hours of...
by Pamela | Sep 5, 2007 | Minor Planets, Projects
(I’m on a bad connection and will add links later.) Another day, another conference. From Dragon*Con, I crossed half-way across the country to Chicago to attend the 119th Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific on “EPO and a Changing...
